Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 413)

16 • C REATING GRAPHIC DISPLAYS
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You can create a tooltip for an object in the Property Panel, or in the Common tab of the
object’s Properties dialog box.
Tooltips can consist of a single line or multiple lines of text.
Using tag substitution to replace text strings
Use tag substitution to replace the text strings in graphic objects or embedded variables in
a graphic display.
You can find and replace text strings in tag names, expressions, and FactoryTalk View
commands.
You cannot use tag substitution to replace text created using the Text tool.
To search for and replace text strings
1. Select the graphic object (or objects) that contain text strings you want to replace.
To select all the graphic objects in a display, press Ctrl+A.
When you type
a name here …
… the object’s
name changes
here.
When you type
text here …
… a tooltip for the object
is shown at run time.