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Eric_Ritter
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Using a hover tooltip with a shape

I have a shape that has conditional formatting for the fill colour based off a status (Red, yellow, green).  This works as expected.  I'd like to be able to allow users to hover over the shape and see a tooltip pop up that explains why the status is what it is.  I have ToolTip that displays this info as expected.  However, I cannot figure out how to enable the ToolTip to be displayed when I hover.  Do I need to make this a visual instead of a shape?

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Daniel29195
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@Eric_Ritter 

 

first, you need to to set the page as : allow as tooltip. as on 

Daniel29195_0-1707768497562.png

 

next ,

you go to the visual you want and add the tooltip to : 

 

Daniel29195_1-1707768507644.png

 

 

 

now for shape, i dont think you can add a tooltip for it .

 

 

but what you can do , is add a tooltip like this for shapes  :

Daniel29195_2-1707768569720.png

 

 

you can use some dax code for the tooltip to be dynamic .

 

 

 

let me know if that works for you .

 

 

 

If this answers your question  ,  mark it as the solution so can you can help  other people in the community find it easily .

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Sezm
Regular Visitor

I apprieciate your solution, unfortunatly this doesn't work for what I'm wanting - I'd like the tooltip on a shape to be a standard tooltip where it shows visuals etc 

A workaround I've found is to use a card visual with a random value, in the callout section only use label then rename the value in the build visual section

Hope that makes sense 🙂

Daniel29195
Community Champion
Community Champion

@Eric_Ritter 

 

first, you need to to set the page as : allow as tooltip. as on 

Daniel29195_0-1707768497562.png

 

next ,

you go to the visual you want and add the tooltip to : 

 

Daniel29195_1-1707768507644.png

 

 

 

now for shape, i dont think you can add a tooltip for it .

 

 

but what you can do , is add a tooltip like this for shapes  :

Daniel29195_2-1707768569720.png

 

 

you can use some dax code for the tooltip to be dynamic .

 

 

 

let me know if that works for you .

 

 

 

If this answers your question  ,  mark it as the solution so can you can help  other people in the community find it easily .

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