Show Tooltip On

[trevrobwhite2]

Has anyone managed to get the "Show tooltip on" feature working, this comes with the "On-object interaction" preview setting.

As much as I hate the GUI change, I was hoping this feature would be worth it.  I have a matrix which contains a lot of notes, so I've replaced the data with an icon and was hoping if I hover this column only then a nice tooltip would appear with the full details, however I don't want it to show with every column because that annoys the users, additionally I can't use the transparent box trick because my table has a scroll bar.

I've told Power BI to only display it on this field:

Turning the tooltips on in my matrix shows the field on every column, even if I change the field to something not in my matrix the tooltip always shows.  I even tried turning off the tooltips in my matrix thinking this setting would force it on, but it doesn't.

Changing "Used as category" to "summerised" also doesn't seem to make a difference, so am I missing something or is it broken?

Also I take it the setting if I get it working will work when I publish the dashboard to the Power BI Service?

Thanks in advance for any tips.

[Anonymous]

Hi @trevrobwhite2 ,

1. By default, the tooltip page that has been set up will display information related to the data point you mouse over based on the filter that has been applied to the visual. This behavior can be further customized by adding fields to the Tooltip Field Bucket.

Summary: This usually refers to numeric fields based on category aggregation (sum, average, count, etc.). For example, sum sales by product category.
Used as categories: This refers to a non-numeric field used to group or categorize data. These fields are not aggregated, but are used to slice the data into meaningful segments, such as product name, geographic location, etc.

For more details, please refer to the link: Solved: Tooltip report page - Microsoft Fabric Community.

2. If you want to display the tooltip with a specific value, you can create a measure, and the display that does not meet the conditions will be empty.

Measure =
IF(CALCULATE(SELECTEDVALUE(financials[Country]) = "Canada"),
SUM(financials[Sales]),"")

If your Current Period does not refer to this, please clarify in a follow-up reply.

Best Regards,

Clara Gong

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