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Power Bi Visual Tooltips

Advanced Power BI Tooltips

 

 

Power BI by default gives you basic tooltips, which present you with the values included in your visual

These are limited initially to the fields and values that have been used in creating that visual

Add other fields into the tooltips

You can easily add other fields by dragging them to the tooltips area in the visualizations panel

(yes I know that’s the US spelling, but thats what it is named in  Power BI)

Power BI tooltips

 

But the results are underwhelming

Power BI treemap showing basic tooltip

 

We will show you how to add a rich user experience

Visual Tooltips in Power BI

With a bit of set up you can improve them dramatically and really bring the reports to life

Make your tooltips POP, with custom tooltips pages

 

Power BI Visual Tooltip

Setting up Power BI Tooltips

This video guide walks you through the steps to set up visual tooltips in Power BI

step 1

 

Create a visual tooltip page, which is like a smaller page designed to be used as a pop up visual tooltip

Be creative, but space efficient

You want the tooltip to show some underlying detail to explain WHY the results are what they are

Power BI Visual Tooltip page

Step 2

Then on to step 2,

where we activate the tooltip.

This involves going into the page information tab and setting it to be a tooltip page

We have called it graphical tooltip, but you might have multiple tooltip pages, so give it a description that explains its content

e.g, Sales Tooltip

visual tooltips settings page

 

Following this, the final step is set up which visuals will use this tooltip

 

Step 3

 

Here we go to the tooltip settings for each visual and select the name of the visual tooltip page that we created, and we repeat this for each visual this tooltip is to apply to

 

 

 

Visual tooltips in Power BI bring a rich user experience, giving your users the ability to explore what is behind the data

It brings a real WOW factor and is a very efficient way to present further details

Hope you find this useful

 

Doing Power BI tool tips well can really make your reports stand out and increase user engagement

Watch the video to see how it is done and how powerful visual tooltips are, your users will love them

 

 

 

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This particular tip is also posted in the Power BI Community (or the Fabric Community as it is now being re-branded)

How to use visual tooltips – Microsoft Fabric Community

 

By Simon Harrison

Simon Harrison Founder of Select Distinct Limited and a business intelligence expert