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Applying tooltip only to specific columns in a table
Hi all,
I have a table with several columns. Some of them are abbreviations and I want to display their full name when you hover on them with the mouse. How can I do it?
Hi Anonymous ,
Method1, Change the description of column names in Power Query.
Note: This method is not effective for measures.
Method2, Use the ‘Viusal header tooltip icon’ feature.
Power BI visual header tooltip - Prathy's Blog...
Note: This method will display all column descriptions in one view.
Best regards,
Lionel ChenIf this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
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- amitchandak
Super User
Anonymous , I doubt that happens in the case of column headers. There is description you can give in properties in the Model view. But when I tested that last time, it was not showing on the table column header
for the location of the property
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/desktop-custom-format-strings
Hi Amitchandak,
Do you have the solution to have the Column headers display the tooltip.
For instance, the image below is a Matrix visual i have in Power Bi. I want to be able to Hover on the column headers and see certain information. For instance, If I hover on the Billable RTU's column and see (Source of Data is Agenda).
v-lionel-msftCommunity Support
Hi Anonymous ,
Method1, Change the description of column names in Power Query.
Note: This method is not effective for measures.
Method2, Use the ‘Viusal header tooltip icon’ feature.
Power BI visual header tooltip - Prathy's Blog...
Note: This method will display all column descriptions in one view.
Best regards,
Lionel ChenIf this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Appreciate that OP will likely no longer care as it's been a few years since the original post 🙂 To anyone else still looking for a solution - I found this thread first and it didnt help me, but I kept looking and found something I think may do the job - adding a reply here in case anyone else does what I did! Hopefully it's ok to link to other sites - I haven't bothered looking to see if there are rules or anything re posting here.
(40) Tooltip on Total Column only - Months into measures | LinkedIn
1. I have yet to try it out for myself, however it describes how to add a dynamic tooltip to a MATRIX visual, not a table visual, but you may be able to tweak your report to make this suitable.
2. It clearly demonstrates that the resulting tooltip only appears when you hover on the Total column - other columns do not trigger an annoying tooltip.
Although not perfectly meeting the requirement it does enable you to add a tooltip that has relevance across multiple rows with different dimensionality. Hopefully MS will improve the capabilities in future so weird workarounds are not required. If I do figure out a way to fully meet the requirement I'll drop another reply.
I want to apply a report page tooltip to only one column Comp Config in table .
Tooltip page: just masked the data its conbination of table and text box
