Ran across the Report Tool Tip capability in the Power Bi Data Analyst Cert training I was doing and thought...what?? You can do that?? Found this video and now I am so excited to use it in my reports. This is a great way to declutter the report page as well so that data can only be visible when needed. Love it, thanks for sharing!
Great tutorial. I hadn't thought of using report and visual header tooltips in my dashboards; this has triggered some new design ideas for me that I'll be including in my next project.
@Patrick, I came across this awesome video of yours and wanted to try out Visual Headers in my current Power Desktop Version (Version: 2.117.984.0 64-bit (May 2023)) and I noticed that the Visual Headers are not available. Did Microsoft remove them?
I just want to say how awesome all your videos are. They are easy to understand and very informative. They have helped me become better at using Power Bi!
Love this video of tooltips.....just had a report with tooltips today adding both visual and report tooltips......great video. Thanks for your how to and guide👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you for this video, I love it. Can you do it again with more tables, maybe 3 o 4, and add a data table as well. I would like to understand how all that gets connected. Thanks.
Great video as always. Thank you! One more useful thing about tooltips is that any field you add to a tooltip can be used to sort the data on the visual.
Awesome video as always..Keeping it simple!!! can you kindly put up some video or share something on embedding dashboards on a public link and how to use filters there. This is basically for my clients who do not have Power BI subscriptions.
Patrick this was really helpful; I had never realized that placing measures in the tooltips area actually impacts the query efficiency. Also the report header tooltip idea was great as well
Thanks for the trick which I learnt from you guys and have used but just to share one "down side" that I've experienced with this tooltip is that if you left the Power BI on without refreshing the browser for a long time, the info on the main visual may not tally once information in the database changes. Example is that the main visual shows the total number of any product type reserved and the tooltip shows the breakdown of customers who reserves the product being hovered on. There were times I realised the number on the main visual is different and after an F5 browser refresh, the number tallies. That is because the main visual does not automatically refresh if user just leave the browser on while the tooltip is always dynamic and gets the latest info from the refreshed database. Hope this makes sense and helps those who uses this trick but found discrepancies in their numbers.
Great video!! This is a very good introduction to be able to understand what Tooltips are and follow the rest of your Tooltips videos. Before this one I didn't understood what was the tooltips box for. Thanks!
I loved the tips (or tool-tips). Definitely something I will be incorporating in some of my dashboard designs. You're amazing! I have learnt a lot about Power BI from your videos.
Thanks for the great video. Is there anyway to make a tooltip pop up and stay up when you click, rather than pop up when you hover and disappear when you stop hovering?
Hi Patrick, Great material. I have the challenge in a line chart to get a tooltip that has the cross line as you showed in your example. Marker, Name, Qty . Any hints? Thank you!
Hi Patrick..Can we see tool tip for explaining the calculations of the columns in a table. The titles and their meanings are stored in another table and this should get pulled over when we hover over the column..
Patrick, just watched this video and it is amazing! I have a small question that I have not found the answer to. Is it possible to remove some field from the tooltip. For example, the "Month" field in your first example, it is a value field, so by default, it is part of tooltip items. Can it, as well as the data field, be removed from the tooltip, and only show those I add to the tooltips? Thanks
great video. Thanks for explaining. How do you get the pages options in your tooltip selection? Mine has an "auto" option only despite having multiple pages.
For different visuals in a report, do we need to create separate tooltip pages? one for each tooltip, or can we have multiple tooltip in only one page for the different visuals.?
Anyone know if it's possible to have the hover over tool tip stay on screen when you put your mouse over it? I have a graph display on hover over and am hoping to have it show the individual data values on the chart when I hover over it (like what happens on the separate tab it was created on). Currently as soon as I move my mouse towards the hover over it disappears!
Hi Patrick.. Awesome video. Just a quick question. How the report level tool tip is dynamic? Do we need to adjust any specific settings? I mean how the page for report level tool tip is set so that it displays the tip corresponding to the element it is hovered upon. Thanks in advance
I have a question - is it possible to make the tooltips stay on the screen? And subsequently interact with the tooltip? For example, my tooltip might display a list of cases relevant to the part of the graph the user has hovered over, but the list may be long and have a scroll bar. Can you make the tooltip stay in place and use the scroll bar?
Great Video thanks! How do I do the same thing, with data from 2 tables? I have a customer order table, and I have a report listing all the materials that are owing to customers. Then I want a tooltip that checks the stock table, finds the stock for the material number that I'm hovering over and shows this stock figure in the tooltip. When I do this now, I'm getting a list of other materials not related to my selected material in any way
Can a custom tooltip be added on a button? For example as info? I have a panel I show and hide but wondered if there was standard bi way of achieving this?
very helpful, can you explain why all my data in the tooltip box not shows (can't scroll). some text hides. how to adjust the tooltip box size or enable scroll? Thank you.
Thanks for the video. I have a question. I have a table with values and added report page tooltip. On the value the tooltip show up with information. But if table cell value is blank, the tooltip pops up but it's blank. How to avoid showing of blank tooltip popup in blank cells?
Another Great Video Patrick. How did you build the Tool Tip Map Legend? I have a map in a report and would like to do the same just a simple narrative and the colour bar
Thanks for the video, really easy to follow. It had almost everything I needed to know :) Do you have any that go into a little more detail on the tooltip field options. I am try to have a map and when you hover over a region a specific tooltip is shown (not all the same)
I love custom tooltips and I like what you did with the sync slicers Patrick. How accessible are tooltips from mobile devices and keyboard shortcuts? I have heard that is a limitation?
Is there anyway to remove values from a tooltip? An example is a map using latitude and longitude. There's information I'd like to include on a tooltip but the coordinates are not relevant to the user and I'd rather not clutter the tooltip with them. Thanks
Very well explained (with some charm too!). I have a Tooltip related question which I'm hoping you can answer please. Short version: My tooltip values don't update on interactions. Long version: I have a stacked bar chart where the values displays % and the tooltip contains a number measure. When I click on a segment of the bar chart the percentage of another bar chart will update (great, I want that) however the number measure within the tooltip is not updating with it. I feel like it should just happen and I'm missing something painfully obvious - please help ! Apologies if you've already covered this in a previous video :)
Is there any chance to export the information poping up from the tooltip? (e.g.a visual showing amount of customers by product group and sales and users want to export a list of these customer in a special sales group)
Thanks for making the tooltips application so easy to understand. I have a small Question, if we have a drill down enabled on a visual, then can we have different tooltips for different levels. like for example, if there's a barchart for product category, which drills down to product subcategory, then i want to make a tooltip such that if i'm on category's view, I get information about the category. If i drill down to sub category's view the i should get information about the subcategory. I dont mind making seperate tooltips for the category view and the subcategory views, I just want to know if i can apply seperate tooltips for various drill down levels and if it's possible then how to apply??
We have a scenario like this but slightly different. Our customer wants the ? to be visible all the time, like an info icon. On images there are only visual header tooltips and actions but no tooltip options. Is there any way of getting this to work? I tried bookmarks but that doesn't have the desired effect.
This is awesome Patrick, thanks for explaining it. Quick question though: Can you customise what the tooltip displays? For example: “15% out of total 120 sales were made by John” Where percentage, volume and perdone comes from a field or measure and the wording is custom made. I’ve done this in Tableau but haven’t found a way to do it in PBI. Thanks again. Fernando
I have a table visualization and associated with that a report tooltip. Currently, this tooltip is showing up on all the columns of the table visualization but it only needs to show up on the first few. Using matrix visualization is not an option. Is there a way to do this somehow?
If I have a field parameter being used in the visual, now I want to change the name appearing in the tooltip without changing the values name in the field parameter itself. for eg in a Field Parameter values are Monthly, Quarterly and yearly. so now when Monthly is selected it shows on the tool tip -> Monthly = Feb2022 but I want to change it to Month = Feb2022 and I can't change the field Parameters options names. Is there a way to make it possible?
Hi Patrick, would it be possible to display a tooltip based on a flag value? eg, I need a tooltip but just in case I have positive numbers in my table.
Hello, do you know how to jump to last row to check whether it has "null" in the cell or not because I have 50,000 rows in my file and it takes so much time going to last row by clicking my mouse on the arrow...
This is great, but what i am dying to know is: How can i hover over a COLUMN HEADER and show the Description in of the field from the meta data. Or some other longer description. ie Think baseball....column header (field name) ERA, hover and show Earned Run Average OR Store EARNED RUN AVERAGE as the field name, somehow have a NAME ALT of field as ERA. Be able to show ERA as column header and Earned Run Average as hover over. This is SOOOOOO important to keep good descriptive name conventions AND conserving precious space on the canvas
Hi Patrick, how do I make my Tooltip filter simultaneously with my visual? For example, if I am on March, I want my tooltip to show March data, if I'm on April then April data. I made my tooltip but it is not responding to my filters. Thanks a bunch!
Patrick, I am unable to view tooltip in Matrix Element for rows(Not columns). Is there a way through DAX we can see rows tooltip for more than 1 row? I wanted to show (ID, Manager) in a row, (Value, Percentage) in value and (Month) in the column. I want the ID and Manager info in Tooltip as I hover. Please advise. Thank you
I had a similar problem recently. Not perfect solution but it achieved the visual result required. I ended up returning a matrix with a single row for each field I needed by using filters. Stacked each row on the page, one by one ontop of each other.
Is it possible to have the tooltip be intractable? I have a table as a tooltip but I can only have so many values show before needing to scroll, but I cannot make it scroll.
One drawback is that tooltips do not interact or, answering your question, you don’t have the option to scroll down and check all the values from the table that it is being used as the tooltip. Whatever data is displayed on your tooltip tab, that’s the data you will see when you hover over a table, matrix... and the tooltip gets displayed. Hope that answers your question!
How easily you explain anything that is your charm Patrick. You can explain any complex concept in a simple way.
Ran across the Report Tool Tip capability in the Power Bi Data Analyst Cert training I was doing and thought...what?? You can do that?? Found this video and now I am so excited to use it in my reports. This is a great way to declutter the report page as well so that data can only be visible when needed. Love it, thanks for sharing!
Great tutorial. I hadn't thought of using report and visual header tooltips in my dashboards; this has triggered some new design ideas for me that I'll be including in my next project.
@Patrick, I came across this awesome video of yours and wanted to try out Visual Headers in my current Power Desktop Version (Version: 2.117.984.0 64-bit (May 2023)) and I noticed that the Visual Headers are not available. Did Microsoft remove them?
I just want to say how awesome all your videos are. They are easy to understand and very informative. They have helped me become better at using Power Bi!
This video was great!!! Never really understood how to use the various tooltips. My reports are going to really stand out with these in use. Thanks!
Happy it helped
Thank you so much for sharing this tutorial about tooltips. Your videos are awesome!
Just used the Visual Header tooltip.. great idea! Thank you
Love these tips Patrick. I could watch your videos all day. You explain stuff so well. Thanks!
You guys really make THE best PowerBi video's on the net. Keep going !!
Love this video of tooltips.....just had a report with tooltips today adding both visual and report tooltips......great video. Thanks for your how to and guide👍🏼👍🏼
This is amazing, so helpful, thank you!
Thank you for this video, I love it. Can you do it again with more tables, maybe 3 o 4, and add a data table as well. I would like to understand how all that gets connected. Thanks.
Thanks Patrick, that Report tool tip is amazing 👍
Lovely thanks a lot guys you are making ppl happier.
Thank much for video, it was really a life saver. You explained the concepts very well.
Great video as always. Thank you! One more useful thing about tooltips is that any field you add to a tooltip can be used to sort the data on the visual.
I love your videos and your energy! Thanks!
Love this video and I especially love the Header Tooltips. Brilliant stuff as always!!
Awesome video as always..Keeping it simple!!! can you kindly put up some video or share something on embedding dashboards on a public link and how to use filters there. This is basically for my clients who do not have Power BI subscriptions.
useful tutorial, thank you so much to share with us
Love the idea of using visual header tooltips to provide extra information about what is being presented... def gonna use that
Patrick this was really helpful; I had never realized that placing measures in the tooltips area actually impacts the query efficiency. Also the report header tooltip idea was great as well
Another great video for another innovative solution. Thank you Patrick.
hey Patrick, nice video! How to add additional tooltip on the table kind of visualization?
Love these videos. How to create and deliver more context per visual. Huge potential.
great video and great delivery style - i like it :)
Appreciate that Michael! Thanks for watching 👊
Those tool tips are awesome!
I am learning how to create powerful visualizations with PBI, and I am finding this channel very enlightening.
Thanks for the trick which I learnt from you guys and have used but just to share one "down side" that I've experienced with this tooltip is that if you left the Power BI on without refreshing the browser for a long time, the info on the main visual may not tally once information in the database changes.
Example is that the main visual shows the total number of any product type reserved and the tooltip shows the breakdown of customers who reserves the product being hovered on. There were times I realised the number on the main visual is different and after an F5 browser refresh, the number tallies. That is because the main visual does not automatically refresh if user just leave the browser on while the tooltip is always dynamic and gets the latest info from the refreshed database. Hope this makes sense and helps those who uses this trick but found discrepancies in their numbers.
Great video!! This is a very good introduction to be able to understand what Tooltips are and follow the rest of your Tooltips videos. Before this one I didn't understood what was the tooltips box for. Thanks!
Thanks a lot Patrick, great video and very useful 👍🏻
We appreciate that Raul! 👊
I loved the tips (or tool-tips). Definitely something I will be incorporating in some of my dashboard designs. You're amazing! I have learnt a lot about Power BI from your videos.
Using but this video gave some new ideas. Cheers mate.
Its great. Finally someone explain what the hell this tooltip is and how to use it. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful for you! 👊
Great video Patrick! I thought I knew everything about tooltips but you provided some creative ways to use them. Love the maps legend idea.
Merci Patrick ;) Super job
Thank you Patrick! I have a scenario wherein I have a Table and I want to show Tooltip for each column header. Is there a way to achieve it.
Hey Patrick, Watching your videos from last few months and they are really helpful. Thank you and keep up the good work.
Thanks for the great video. Is there anyway to make a tooltip pop up and stay up when you click, rather than pop up when you hover and disappear when you stop hovering?
Great video, thank you! But how did you create the tooltip message?
Hi Patrick, Great material. I have the challenge in a line chart to get a tooltip that has the cross line as you showed in your example. Marker, Name, Qty . Any hints? Thank you!
Hi Patrick..Can we see tool tip for explaining the calculations of the columns in a table. The titles and their meanings are stored in another table and this should get pulled over when we hover over the column..
Patrick, just watched this video and it is amazing! I have a small question that I have not found the answer to. Is it possible to remove some field from the tooltip. For example, the "Month" field in your first example, it is a value field, so by default, it is part of tooltip items. Can it, as well as the data field, be removed from the tooltip, and only show those I add to the tooltips? Thanks
Thanks for your awesome videos. Patrick, just wondering if it's possible to add report page tooltips to slicers??
Awesome Patrick, can u share the dax for the Visual Header Tooltip Top 10 please?
great video. Thanks for explaining. How do you get the pages options in your tooltip selection? Mine has an "auto" option only despite having multiple pages.
you are the legend bro ! thanks !
There is so much value here. Instant subscribe!
For different visuals in a report, do we need to create separate tooltip pages? one for each tooltip, or can we have multiple tooltip in only one page for the different visuals.?
Anyone know if it's possible to have the hover over tool tip stay on screen when you put your mouse over it?
I have a graph display on hover over and am hoping to have it show the individual data values on the chart when I hover over it (like what happens on the separate tab it was created on). Currently as soon as I move my mouse towards the hover over it disappears!
Patrick this tips are awesome.
Hi Patrick.. Awesome video. Just a quick question. How the report level tool tip is dynamic? Do we need to adjust any specific settings? I mean how the page for report level tool tip is set so that it displays the tip corresponding to the element it is hovered upon. Thanks in advance
You guys are always awesome. Thank you so much for the tooltip visuals explanation.
I have a question - is it possible to make the tooltips stay on the screen? And subsequently interact with the tooltip? For example, my tooltip might display a list of cases relevant to the part of the graph the user has hovered over, but the list may be long and have a scroll bar. Can you make the tooltip stay in place and use the scroll bar?
Thanks, this is a great way to use tool tips!
amazing content! thanks, Patrick
Great Video thanks! How do I do the same thing, with data from 2 tables? I have a customer order table, and I have a report listing all the materials that are owing to customers. Then I want a tooltip that checks the stock table, finds the stock for the material number that I'm hovering over and shows this stock figure in the tooltip. When I do this now, I'm getting a list of other materials not related to my selected material in any way
I really enjoyed this content! Thanks Patrick!
Most welcome! Thanks for watching and supporting the channel! 👊
Can a custom tooltip be added on a button? For example as info? I have a panel I show and hide but wondered if there was standard bi way of achieving this?
very helpful, can you explain why all my data in the tooltip box not shows (can't scroll). some text hides. how to adjust the tooltip box size or enable scroll? Thank you.
Great video! Useful as usually!
Thanks for the video. I have a question. I have a table with values and added report page tooltip. On the value the tooltip show up with information. But if table cell value is blank, the tooltip pops up but it's blank. How to avoid showing of blank tooltip popup in blank cells?
Another Great Video Patrick. How did you build the Tool Tip Map Legend? I have a map in a report and would like to do the same just a simple narrative and the colour bar
Thanks for the video, really easy to follow. It had almost everything I needed to know :) Do you have any that go into a little more detail on the tooltip field options. I am try to have a map and when you hover over a region a specific tooltip is shown (not all the same)
Timely! Thank😃 you!
Great video again!
Question: Why can't the sync slicer method shown for visual header tooltip, be also used for report tooltip?
Great Video on Tooltips Patrick!
Appreciate that Balu! Thanks for watching 👊
I love custom tooltips and I like what you did with the sync slicers Patrick.
How accessible are tooltips from mobile devices and keyboard shortcuts? I have heard that is a limitation?
Nicely done! Thanks for the clarifications!
thank you Patrick 🙂👍
Thanks for a great video! Really helped me to add the tooltips I needed. :)
Is there anyway to remove values from a tooltip? An example is a map using latitude and longitude. There's information I'd like to include on a tooltip but the coordinates are not relevant to the user and I'd rather not clutter the tooltip with them. Thanks
Hello Patrick , can we change the Lable of dynamically i want to show the percentage like X% of y amount is remaining to pay or over paid
Very well explained (with some charm too!). I have a Tooltip related question which I'm hoping you can answer please. Short version: My tooltip values don't update on interactions. Long version: I have a stacked bar chart where the values displays % and the tooltip contains a number measure. When I click on a segment of the bar chart the percentage of another bar chart will update (great, I want that) however the number measure within the tooltip is not updating with it. I feel like it should just happen and I'm missing something painfully obvious - please help ! Apologies if you've already covered this in a previous video :)
Is there any chance to export the information poping up from the tooltip? (e.g.a visual showing amount of customers by product group and sales and users want to export a list of these customer in a special sales group)
Thank you so much -
Brilliant! Love this.
Thanks for making the tooltips application so easy to understand.
I have a small Question,
if we have a drill down enabled on a visual, then can we have different tooltips for different levels. like for example, if there's a barchart for product category, which drills down to product subcategory, then i want to make a tooltip such that if i'm on category's view, I get information about the category. If i drill down to sub category's view the i should get information about the subcategory. I dont mind making seperate tooltips for the category view and the subcategory views, I just want to know if i can apply seperate tooltips for various drill down levels and if it's possible then how to apply??
Are you able to add a tooltip to a filtered table, filtered table was created using selectcolumns?
We have a scenario like this but slightly different. Our customer wants the ? to be visible all the time, like an info icon. On images there are only visual header tooltips and actions but no tooltip options. Is there any way of getting this to work? I tried bookmarks but that doesn't have the desired effect.
This is awesome Patrick, thanks for explaining it.
Quick question though: Can you customise what the tooltip displays? For example: “15% out of total 120 sales were made by John”
Where percentage, volume and perdone comes from a field or measure and the wording is custom made. I’ve done this in Tableau but haven’t found a way to do it in PBI.
Thanks again.
Fernando
That's where PBI lags behind, customizing visuals! It can't be done in PBI sadly. I'm a fan of Tableau tooltips though
I have a table visualization and associated with that a report tooltip. Currently, this tooltip is showing up on all the columns of the table visualization but it only needs to show up on the first few. Using matrix visualization is not an option. Is there a way to do this somehow?
If I have a field parameter being used in the visual, now I want to change the name appearing in the tooltip without changing the values name in the field parameter itself. for eg in a Field Parameter values are Monthly, Quarterly and yearly. so now when Monthly is selected it shows on the tool tip -> Monthly = Feb2022 but I want to change it to Month = Feb2022 and I can't change the field Parameters options names. Is there a way to make it possible?
Hi Patrick, would it be possible to display a tooltip based on a flag value? eg, I need a tooltip but just in case I have positive numbers in my table.
Hello, do you know how to jump to last row to check whether it has "null" in the cell or not because I have 50,000 rows in my file and it takes so much time going to last row by clicking my mouse on the arrow...
Love this guy
Hi Patrick. Is it possible to have a column-level tooltip in tables?
Hey, i am not receiving any sample data to work on. Could you please share me a link to download them?
This is great, but what i am dying to know is: How can i hover over a COLUMN HEADER and show the Description in of the field from the meta data. Or some other longer description.
ie
Think baseball....column header (field name) ERA, hover and show Earned Run Average
OR
Store EARNED RUN AVERAGE as the field name, somehow have a NAME ALT of field as ERA. Be able to show ERA as column header and Earned Run Average as hover over.
This is SOOOOOO important to keep good descriptive name conventions AND conserving precious space on the canvas
what do you think of tableau? Is it more powerful than power bi?
Hi Patrick, how do I make my Tooltip filter simultaneously with my visual? For example, if I am on March, I want my tooltip to show March data, if I'm on April then April data. I made my tooltip but it is not responding to my filters. Thanks a bunch!
Great Video!
In this viéo you mentionne that there is the visual report tooltip . Where in that option in RS version? I want to pass différent value ...
Any updated thoughts in tool tips? Seems like something better might be around in 2024,just wondering?
Cool. Guy in a Cube has been my first daily morning news update so far. :-)
Very cool. Thank you
Patrick, I am unable to view tooltip in Matrix Element for rows(Not columns). Is there a way through DAX we can see rows tooltip for more than 1 row? I wanted to show (ID, Manager) in a row, (Value, Percentage) in value and (Month) in the column. I want the ID and Manager info in Tooltip as I hover. Please advise. Thank you
I don't think that is possible :( Will have to look into it. Off the top of our head though, the answer is no.
I had a similar problem recently. Not perfect solution but it achieved the visual result required. I ended up returning a matrix with a single row for each field I needed by using filters. Stacked each row on the page, one by one ontop of each other.
Oh the report tooltip is definitely going into my bag of tricks.
Great video, as always!
Is it possible to have the tooltip be intractable? I have a table as a tooltip but I can only have so many values show before needing to scroll, but I cannot make it scroll.
One drawback is that tooltips do not interact or, answering your question, you don’t have the option to scroll down and check all the values from the table that it is being used as the tooltip. Whatever data is displayed on your tooltip tab, that’s the data you will see when you hover over a table, matrix... and the tooltip gets displayed. Hope that answers your question!