# Open Tooltip with script

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-tooltip-with-script/112299>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, scripting, perspective\
**Created:** [November 20, 2025, 7:40am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-tooltip-with-script/112299 "2025-11-20T07:40:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![pablo.maestre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/49beb7/32.png) [@pablo.maestre](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pablo.maestre)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 7:40am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-tooltip-with-script/112299/1 "2025-11-20T07:40:21Z")

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Hello! I'm adapting an Ignition 8.1 **Perspective screen** to an **Android tablet**. The main problem is that I have many **tooltips** that I can't open on Android. So, I had thought about **displaying the tooltip on click (`onClick`)**, but I don't see any option in **scripting** to do this. Any ideas that could solve the problem (no, I'm not going to attach a mouse to the tablet)?

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**Author:** ![Samuel\_Sueur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Samuel\_Sueur](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Samuel_Sueur)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 7:57am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-tooltip-with-script/112299/2 "2025-11-20T07:57:05Z")

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This topic might be useful:

> [@Trigger the display all tooltips text of a view?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/trigger-the-display-all-tooltips-text-of-a-view/60894):
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> I would like to display all tooltips texts used on a view (and nested views of it) ? Is it possible ? Is there a way to trigger the display of a tooltips ? If is were possible, we could use this feature to display equipement label or tag with no need to add lots of labels components.

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**Author:** ![pablo.maestre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/49beb7/32.png) [@pablo.maestre](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pablo.maestre)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 10:04am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-tooltip-with-script/112299/3 "2025-11-20T10:04:22Z")

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Perfect! I found the solution; the methods I need were implemented throughout the development of **version 8.1**. I'm leaving the documentation. Thank you very much!

> **[Perspective Component Methods | Ignition User Manual](https://www.docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/ignition-modules/perspective/scripting-in-perspective/perspective-component-methods)**
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> A component method is a function that is defined on a component object. For example, this is how we would call a component method defined on the component object self:

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**Author:** ![pablo.maestre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/49beb7/32.png) [@pablo.maestre](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pablo.maestre)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 10:06am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-tooltip-with-script/112299/4 "2025-11-20T10:06:05Z")

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I found the solution thanks to you, thank you very much again