# Tag Tooltip use in perspective

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-tooltip-use-in-perspective/77034>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [July 27, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-tooltip-use-in-perspective/77034 "2023-07-27T18:50:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rich\_Sousa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea5d25/32.png) [@Rich\_Sousa](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Rich_Sousa)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-tooltip-use-in-perspective/77034/1 "2023-07-27T18:50:23Z")

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Do tag based tooltips work in perspective? I've been trying to get it to work with no luck so i'm not sure if it's a perspective thing or if it's how I'm implementing it.

Tooltips for the containers work just fine in perspective for my project but I cannot get the tag tooltip to show up.

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-tooltip-use-in-perspective/77034/2 "2023-07-27T19:03:37Z")

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Not the way you're thinking. In Vision, there's actual "tag" objects. In Perspective, everything's just JSON - so a given property might have the same _value_ as a tag (via a binding or otherwise) but there's no meta information about what that came from.

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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-tooltip-use-in-perspective/77034/3 "2023-07-27T19:07:42Z")

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What do you mean by "tag based tooltips"?

If you wish to set the tooltip in a tag and have that displayed when the cursor hovers over a component then bind the component's tooltip to the tag's tooltip.

 ![Tag tooltip](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/4/2/42f72520a1e32bc34c9ffec63875847626ad041c.png)

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**Author:** ![Rich\_Sousa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea5d25/32.png) [@Rich\_Sousa](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Rich_Sousa)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-tooltip-use-in-perspective/77034/4 "2023-07-28T11:28:55Z")

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What I am referring to is in this:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/8/6/86bb3d225cacf956053b1c7a294849310fad95b0.png)

Perhaps I'm misinterpreting the description but to me that says that any control that is bound to a tag that has a tooltip assigned should auto show that tooltip. Is that not correct?

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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:** [July 28, 2023, 12:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-tooltip-use-in-perspective/77034/5 "2023-07-28T12:01:37Z")

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> [@Rich\_Sousa](#):
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> not correct?

Not correct. When you drag and drop a tag, the designer will create these bindings for you in many cases. But if you are binding manually, you will need to make your own tooltip binding.