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aseagull
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5 years ago
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Custom Tooltips Go Blank After Highlighting in Another Visual

Hi. I have linked a pretty simple PBIX with three bar charts displaying 5 measures. I have included custom tooltip pages for the stacked bar and clustered bar charts.   Here is the strange phenomen...
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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Hi aseagull ,

 

There are a few limitations and considerations for tooltips to keep in mind.

  • Button visuals also support tooltips.
  • Report tooltips are not supported for Power BI visuals.
  • Clusters are not currently supported as fields that can be shown in report tooltips.
  • When choosing a field to be shown for report tooltips, when using a field versus a category, visuals that contain that field will only show the specified tooltip when summarization with the selected field matches.
  • You can turn tooltips off completely for a visual in Power BI reports. However, when you pin that visual to a dashboard in the Power BI service, the basic tooltip will still be displayed.

 

Best Regards,

Jay

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aseagull
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5 years ago

Jay, you have a very polite way of telling me to read the darn docs! Thank you for that. It may be that what you've highlighted in red is the culprit; unfortunately, I don't understand it. I will see if I can make a clarification request for that page.

 

Ultimately, it looks like the conclusion here is that the custom tooltip is simply not as mature as I expected. This behavior is clearly undesirable (why not just refuse to throw a tooltip at all, instead of putting up a blank one?). Again, I hope I have not misunderstood.

 

Thanks,

Amon