Visual header tooltip / Report page / keep filter on visual

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm looking into the possibility of showing a description as close as possible to a visualisation without the need to maintain any 'hardcoded' text. If possible I want to use the build in function 'visual header tooltip'. My goal is to be able to present information nextto the place where the user needs it and a solution that is easy to maintain with changes that might applied in the future to the report.

I've tried the following: I've created a table with indicators and descriptions. On my visual i have put a filter on this table in which i have filtered only the desciption that I want to show next to the visualisation.

I also created a tooltip-page on which i turned the 'keep all filters' setting on. When referring to the tooltip-page from the visual header tooltip I get the following result:

I would have excpected that the filter that I have applied on the visual would also filter the tooltip page when using the visual header tooltip. This is the case when I use the regular tooltip for the visual. I don't want to use I need it for other detailed info.

Does someone have a solution to present a description next to a visual without the use of the regular tooltip and with the use of an 'easy to maintain' description-table?

[Pragati11]

HI @Anonymous ,

Currently, your tooltip is not filtering as it is coming from a disconnected table which is not related to your other tables.

You can try creating a measure using your description table regarding when which value should be displayed. Then under Tooltips section you can move that measure.

But this measure will need some kind of data check that will drive it.

Like if Sales < 12,000 then display DESCRIPTION1 else DESCRIPTION2.

Thanks,

Pragati

[Anonymous]

Hi Pragati, Thanks for your answer! The regular tooltip already works with the use of a visual level filter on it, even without the data check with only the filter on visual level. What I do is that I slide the description from the description-table into the visual that needs the filter on the tooltip. This works for the regular tooltip, but not for the visual header tooltip. It seems to me that the behaviour of the regular tooltip and the visual header tooltip differs in such a way that the regular tooltips takes the filter from the visual to the tooltip_page and the visual header tooltip does not. This might even be obvious but it was not what I hoped for and I'm still looking for a alternative if available (without the use of the regular tooltip-section).

[v-easonf-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi, @Anonymous 

As of now , Microsoft has not provided other alternative solutions. The best way is to use the regular tooltip instead of the visual header tooltip.

Here is the explanation and suggestion given by the Microsoft team:

"By Design. Hovering over a data point for a report-page tooltip will pass the data point as filter context. Hovering over the header for a report-page tooltip does not have any inherent datapoint to create filter context, and will not pass any filter context through. The header tooltip was intended to be used for static content, and the report page tooltip option is a way to allow rich static content."

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Eason