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Anonymous
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3 years ago
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Can't add Data fields to Tooltips on Map

I have a map of stores.  I would like to use Tooltips to show store attributes: store name, city, store manager, etc.  However, whenever I drag a data field into the Tooltips box it won't stick -- di...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    2 years ago

    I found a solution.  In my model implicit measures were disabled because I was using incremental refresh.  I created explicit measures to use in the tooltips.

    e.g. Tooltip Store = first (store),

    Tooltip SalesPerson = first (salesperson), etc.

     

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Anonymous
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3 years ago

Good news and bad news.  The good news is that I rebuilt the entire data model, and tooltips work now.

The bad news... we may never know why they weren't working in the first place.

Thanks for your help.

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zazaalaza
Frequent Visitor
2 years ago

I am facing the same issue right now, extremely frustrating, I can't seem to solve it, the only thing I can think of is to rebuild the whole model.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    2 years ago

    I found a solution.  In my model implicit measures were disabled because I was using incremental refresh.  I created explicit measures to use in the tooltips.

    e.g. Tooltip Store = first (store),

    Tooltip SalesPerson = first (salesperson), etc.

     

  • IP_Kornel's avatar
    IP_Kornel
    Frequent Visitor
    2 years ago

    This is crazy but it helped... I used a dummy measure = FIRSTNONBLANK(column, TRUE())

  • lbendlin's avatar
    lbendlin
    Super User
    2 years ago
    implicit measures were disabled because I was using incremental refresh

    no, that's not the reason.  Likely because you set it in the options ("discourage implicit measures") or because you use calculation groups.