Power BI Tooltip

What is Tooltip in Power BI?

In Power BI, Tooltip is nothing but showing extra data labels on the visual other than the used field values to the visualization. If creating visualization is the mastering thing adding little things to the existing dashboard can make the report more valued and worth it. One such thing we can do with Power BI visualsPower BI VisualsIn Power Bi, there are some built-in visuals for data visualization, as well as some custom visuals. Custom visuals are user-defined and allow users to use their own creativity in terms of how they want to present data. For example, one can use lines and dots in a flashing and floating manner to display changes in data over time.read more is adding “Tooltip” to the visualization.

For example, if you have a monthly sales amount and you have created a column chartCreated A Column ChartColumn chart is used to represent data in vertical columns. The height of the column represents the value for the specific data series in a chart, the column chart represents the comparison in the form of column from left to right.read more for the monthly sales amount.

Now, if you, however, on any of the bars in any of the months, then it will show data labels and data category, i.e., that particular month name and sales value.

In the above image, I have hovered on “November” month; immediately, I can see the category name as “November” and the category data label as sale value “118,447.82”.

By hovering on each bar, we can see the data value of each bar. Now the question is, what is the profit value for this month???

As of now, if you want to see the profit value, either we have to insert one more new field or add different visualization only. So, this is where our “Tooltip” is going to help us.

How to Add Tooltip to Show Other Values in Power BI?

You can also download the excel workbook from the below link, which is used for this example.

• As of now, we have created a clustered column chart with only one data field as “Sales” value and axis as a month.

• Our clustered column chartClustered Column ChartIn Excel, a clustered column chart depicts data in a series of vertical columns. Though these charts are simple to create, analyzing them becomes increasingly difficult as the number of categories increases from single to multiple. read more looks like, as shown below.

• When you select the visualization, we can see all the fields of that visualization. One thing we all have ignored all these while in the “Tooltip” field.

By adding columns to these fields, we can actually see the different “data points” without adding them to the visualization.

For example, I have added only “Sales Value” to the chart, but if I want to see “Profit” value for the month, I cannot see this.

• Drag and drop the “Profit” column from the table to “Tooltip.”

• After adding the “Profit” column to the “Tool-Tip,” my chart remains the same, but when I hover over any month column bar, I can see both sales value and profit value for that particular month.

Once again, I have hovered over “November” month, and since I have added the “Profit” column to the “Tooltip” field of the visual, I can see both sales value and profit value.

• Similarly, now I will add the “Quantity” and “Discount” column to the “Tooltip” area.

• Now once again, I will hover over the “November” month, and I can see the data points of “Sales,” “Profit,” “Quantity,” and “Discount.”

Wow!!!! Say hello to the new thing on your power bi dashboard.

Customize Data Points Results in Tooltip

We can also customize the tooltip data point’s results as Average value, Minimum Value, Maximum Value, Variance Value, etc.…

• Click on the drop-down icon of the “Profit” column from the “Tooltip” and choose “maximum” as the data point option.

• Now, if you hover over any of the bars in the chart, it will show a particular month’s maximum profit value only.

This is the way of creating “Tooltip” for the visualization on the same page. But one more advanced thing we can do is we can create visualization “ToolTip” from the different pages also in power bi.

Create Report Page Tooltip in Power BI

Now we have created a tooltip for the existing chart to show Profit value, Units sold value and Discount value.

However, imagine if you want to show Region-wise Profit vs Sale mini chart when you hover over any of the month bars.

Like the above image, we can show visual tooltip as well.

Ok, we are done with all the steps.

Now come back to visual and hover over any of the column bars to see the visual “Tooltip,” which shows the Region-wise Sales vs Profit.

I have hovered over “October” month, and for this month, I can see Region-wise Sales vs Profit.

Note: I have done so much of formatting to these charts, you can download the Power BI Tooltip file from the below link and apply each formatting technique as applied.

Things to Remember Here

• In Power BI, Tooltip is the way of showing more information about the category without adding those columns to the visualization.
• Under Tooltip, we can customize the kind of value we want to show in terms of Average Value, Maximum Value, and Minimum Value, etc.
• A visual tooltip is possible through the Report Page tooltip in Power BI.

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