About Creating Links, Tooltips, and Watermarks

Links

Links are connections to external data stores, just like hyperlinks on a web page. Add links to a feature class through the Model Explorer panel or to individual features through the Properties Palette. You can also link features to tooltips or a map.

Watermarks

Watermarks are images used to brand and identify a model. A watermark overlays the model and remains in place even when a user navigates in the model.

Tooltips

Tooltips are labels that appear when you hover over or right-click a feature. Tooltips can contain generic text, images, links, and/or model property values.

Users can create feature class, data source, or selection set tooltips. Data source tooltips override feature class tooltips, and selection set tooltips override both data source and feature class tooltips.

You can format the visual appearance of tooltips using familiar visual formatting options or HTML tags.

If you include a property in a tooltip, all individual features that contain a value for that property will display that value. For example, a feature class tooltip for buildings tooltips could include the BUILDING_COMPLEX_ID property.
Each building would display a tooltip that includes its corresponding BUILDING_COMPLEX_ID value. If a building does not contain a value for BUILDING_COMPLEX_ID, its tooltip will be blank.