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ldwf
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5 months ago
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Creating a tooltip that is interactive but stays open until you close it

I currently have a table visual that when you hover over each record, a tooltip visual pops up that is filtered based on the record you hover over.  It works fine but the customer is asking if it's p...
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  • Juan-Power-bi's avatar
    Juan-Power-bi
    5 months ago

    Native tooltips can't do that — they close the moment your mouse moves away, that's just how they work in Power BI.
    The closest workaround is using bookmarks + a hidden panel. Basically, clicking a row shows a panel with the detail content, and an X button hides it again. Same idea as your tooltip but pinned to the page.
    Only catch is it gets messy if you have lots of rows. Might be worth asking your customer if drill-through would actually work for them — it achieves the same goal and is way simpler to build.

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danextian
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5 months ago

Hi ldwf  That isn’t feasible. You can technically interact with a tooltip page, but only for a split second. It stays visible only while hovering over a visual element, and the moment you move the cursor toward the tooltip, it disappears. A limited workaround to is to use bookmarks instead of using a page tooltip.