HOW TO DISPLAY MEASURE DESCRIPTIONS IN TOOLTIPS

Anonymous 

Unlike columns, measures are no bind to tables. I would suggest you to use tooltips functionality in the visuals to display the measure description. For example, if you are using a measures called [Sales] in a bar chart then after creating the bar chart, place the measure description column into the tooltips section and keep a visual level filter and filter the measure column to display the description of that particular measure only.

I undertand the fact that incase if you have table/matrix visuals, then above suggestion will not work properly, in such scenarios, you can place a blank button on top of table/matrx visual column headers and you can keep your measure decription as a tooltip for that button.

Since you have a sql view with the measure names and descriptions, 

Hi Anonymous ,

Have you tried Custom Tooltip?
1. Create a new page for tooltip:

2. Go back to the page where the visual object is located and click on the visual object to configure it as shown in the following figure:

The final output is as below:

Best Regards,
Dino Tao
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