Pop-up -iframe

Question

Hi Apex Gurus,
Do you have any idea if I want to create something like help pop up in apex what I should do?
For example I have interactive report of customers and I want to be able to see information regarding to that customer like data in customer table as well as orders he made and whatever related to him.So more less is a summary about customer.
Thank you in advance,
Sara
Edited by: SARA3 on Dec 13, 2010 9:07 AM

Answer 1

Sara,
What you see in google is a div element styled and positioned based on the triggering element and the content shown inside is an image(I dunno if they use a cached screenshot of the page or if its generated dynamically).
In your case since you want to show details dynamically, an iframe could be used instead.
An approach would be,
Create a hidden div with a child frame with an initial dummy target say "#". Use CSS to style it the way u want it(or even copy the styles from google's page)
On mouse over or click(or watever triggering action) of the Triggering elements or links (mayb a n extra column in ur IR) , u can show the div and position it relative to the triggered element.some tips:
use jQuery's .position() or .offset() methos for finding the triggering element position and to set the div before showing it.
specify an z-index for the div's style and mayb some opacity on it too ,try out combinations of css and jQuery styling if u need to (css will do mostly unless u need some fancy effects)
$(<jQuery Selector>).attr('src','<URL>') can be used to set the iframe src and it refreshes the content when u set it(so set it before showing the div).Hope this helps to get u started.