# Tooltips: Including Path Info and Special Characters **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [January 19, 2015, 5:40am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tooltips-including-path-info-and-special-characters/9562 "2015-01-19T05:40:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ChrisGray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ba9def/32.png) [@ChrisGray](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ChrisGray)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 5:40am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tooltips-including-path-info-and-special-characters/9562/1 "2015-01-19T05:40:55Z")
Looking at providing additional information in the Tooltips for Metadata on Tags. Currently you can include Parameters within the Tooltip along with any String the user wishes to add. Question: 1.) How would you include the full Folder Path information within the Tooltip for the Tag? Example:(Say the Tag is in the following folder structure) Plant Area1 \<-- Folder name Equipment1 \<-- Folder name Motor1.Amps \<-- Tag I would like to show in the Tooltip: “Area1.Equipment1.Motor1.Amps” 2.) How do you add a Carriage Return Line Feed to the Tooltip so you can display multiple lines? ---
**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tooltips-including-path-info-and-special-characters/9562/2 "2015-01-19T16:56:51Z")
1. if you have just a few tags, you can right-click on the tag and pick ‘Copy Tag Path’ which you can then paste into the tooltip and modify to your heart’s content. If you have a lot of them, then you can get it through scripting via system.tag.browseTags() and iterate through all of them. 2. html formatting will do the trick. ```auto Line1
Line2
Line3... ``` ---
**Author:** ![ChrisGray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ba9def/32.png) [@ChrisGray](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ChrisGray)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 3:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tooltips-including-path-info-and-special-characters/9562/3 "2015-01-20T03:37:29Z")
Thanks for your suggestion Jordan. For question #1 above I am looking for a more dynamic method to get this information. For question #2 I may be misunderstanding something as I am not sure if you can add HTML to the Tooltip on the Meta data for a Tag (at least when I tried it didn’t seem to work). See my picture attached. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/b/b5f8f00ac742e7d071f20fd4e400bc92ea67fc2a.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 11:15am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tooltips-including-path-info-and-special-characters/9562/4 "2015-01-20T11:15:00Z")
I’ll demonstrate question 2 first, since question 1 will require a bit more tooling around… or tooltipping around, if you prefer… ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/3/32e4846619bc063409b9ecb46990b76f2db837be.png) A shameless plug, I know. 😆 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/2/20fd19cb23a1c7670115bad3329a3f065f61dfdb.png) ---
**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 12:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tooltips-including-path-info-and-special-characters/9562/5 "2015-01-20T12:18:18Z")
Okay. I've come up with a workaround. In the UDT Definintion, put in a parameter hold the path... oddly enough, I chose 'Path'. 😉 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/5/579a829ad22673374a0cc680dd8353abf1b7cbe1.png) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/8/8afc54eefd6f637314a83d81c5de5b99fd0c9543.png) Running this script will put the path names (minus the instance name, of course) and stick it in the {Path} parameter. ```plaintext tagList=system.tag.browseTags(UDTParentType="UDT_Test", recursive=True) for tag in tagList: udtName=str(tag) pathName=str(tag.path).replace(str(tag.name),'') system.tag.editTag(tagPath=udtName,parameters={"Path":pathName}) ``` ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/8/81bd92577814922a536118f0e140d18499ba2f92.png) Note that this is written for a specific UDT type (UDT\_Test). This can be rewritten a bit to hit all UDT Instances. It would just take a bit longer to execute, since it would have to check every tag to see if it's a UDT. 🙂 Also, it's not the most dynamic way of doing it. But it can be put into a gateway timer script to auto-refresh every so often. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisGray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ba9def/32.png) [@ChrisGray](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ChrisGray)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 4:35am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tooltips-including-path-info-and-special-characters/9562/6 "2015-01-22T04:35:37Z")
Thanks Jordan. Much appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Duffanator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/duffanator/32/3560_2.png) [@Duffanator](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Duffanator)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 11:53am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tooltips-including-path-info-and-special-characters/9562/7 "2018-04-12T11:53:33Z")
Jordan, That script is genius. I never would have thought of that and you just saved me a massive amount of time. Thank you, sir! ---
**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tooltips-including-path-info-and-special-characters/9562/8 "2018-04-12T12:27:52Z")
You are most welcome, sir! 🙂