# \[FEATURE\] Perspective Tree - Allow adding tooltips to individual items

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-perspective-tree-allow-adding-tooltips-to-individual-items/97864>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [October 29, 2024, 3:11am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-perspective-tree-allow-adding-tooltips-to-individual-items/97864 "2024-10-29T03:11:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 3:11am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-perspective-tree-allow-adding-tooltips-to-individual-items/97864/1 "2024-10-29T03:11:18Z")

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Instead of adding a tooltip to the entire Tree component, I'd like to have individual tooltips for each item in the tree.

Idea for voting:

> **[Perspective Tree - Allow adding tooltips to individual items | Ignition...](https://inductiveautomation.canny.io/ignition-features-and-ideas/p/perspective-tree-allow-adding-tooltips-to-individual-items)**
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> Instead of adding a tooltip to the entire Tree component, I'd like to have individual tooltips for each item in the tree.

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-perspective-tree-allow-adding-tooltips-to-individual-items/97864/2 "2024-10-29T10:54:12Z")

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Very good idea.

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**Author:** ![Steve\_Laubach](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/steve_laubach/32/60900_2.png) [@Steve\_Laubach](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Steve_Laubach)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-perspective-tree-allow-adding-tooltips-to-individual-items/97864/3 "2024-10-29T16:20:53Z")

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That would be useful.

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**Author:** ![justinedwards.jle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/justinedwards.jle/32/37854_2.png) [@justinedwards.jle](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/justinedwards.jle)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 2:11am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-perspective-tree-allow-adding-tooltips-to-individual-items/97864/4 "2024-10-30T02:11:57Z")

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I'm not sure if this translates well to the Perspective tree, but some components are like this in Vision, and I simply change the tool tip text property as needed using the pointer position during the mouse moved event.

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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 2:39am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-perspective-tree-allow-adding-tooltips-to-individual-items/97864/5 "2024-10-30T02:39:58Z")

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This was my initial thought as well, but there's no way (without hacks) to get the currently highlighted/hovered item in a Tree, so unfortunately this isn't possible here

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 11:03am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-perspective-tree-allow-adding-tooltips-to-individual-items/97864/6 "2024-10-30T11:03:54Z")

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> [@justinedwards.jle](#):
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> translates well to the Perspective

Not well at all, with the round trips for scripting. It really needs to be built into the component.