Power BI report page tooltip - How to create one in Power BI Desktop

Patrick walks through what a Power BI report page tooltip is and how to create one in Power BI Desktop. This is a feature that was added to Power BI Desktop in the March 2018 release.
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[@huqsami]

Brilliant! One of my student asked to customise the tooltip just last week and I couldn’t answer, thanks to you, now I am equipped :-)

[@LeonTribe]

If only I had watched this video before spending hours trying to perfect this!! Thank you for such a clear explanation of the steps.

[@shairadoshitzky1077]

I've been looking for how to implement this tool tip for weeks, Thanks !

[@lucazarts25]

Patrick my man, you just made my day and my client's in the process lol. I can't thank you enough bro. Excelent job!!!

[@GuyInACube]

Amazing! Love it! Thanks for watching! 👊

[@andreeabanateanu120]

Hi, I'm so in love with your videos!! Great work with explaining all this functionalities in a so simple way!

[@heraldfinch7010]

This is brilliant. only the Guy in the Cube can explain it for me. I never get it when I watch other videos.

[@SamWanderlust]

I've been looking for this for months... Thanks a lot dude !

[@jonathanbergenblom9888]

The tooltip feature is great! Been waiting for something that can add that extra context to a data point.

[@GuyInACube]

It really is! Provides for a better experience.

[@Sideshowgaz5779]

God damnit, that's just created a load of work for me because now I want these!!! Cheers Patrick

[@angelaebirim2705]

The multiple metrics in a tooltip looks great. Will definitely use it

[@funtv5389]

Awesomeee 👍👍👍 This is first channel i feel really like subscribing immediately. Thanks a ton for powerful sessions

[@ryanwade865]

Great video Pat! Can't wait until this feature is added to Power BI Report Server.

[@GuyInACube]

Thanks Ryan! I agree on the Power BI Report Server piece. Not sure when the feature will GA so that it can make its way in.

[@daveybalmer]

Hey Patrick, in this uncertain time [co-virus19 and everything], I find that delving into your "Guy-In-A-Cube" videos is one great way to feel happy and grateful for a lot of things. Your explanations and enthusiasm for the work always bring things into a clear focus. There's so much to know and learn and that's a sure-fire way to staying upbeat. Keep it up!

[@agustinpuggioni8260]

Amazing video, thanks!

[@tchaitow]

Thanks as always. is it possible to do this for the "card" visual? I couldn't see the option for it

[@manaryounes2101]

Thanks for the video , just wondering can this feature be customized to show the tool tip only when I hover on specific column? so far Tool tip shows when I hover on all columns in the table

[@BretCarr]

I think I need to unsubscribe from your channel. Every time I watch one, I get ideas to update my existing reports. You guys are killing me!

[@krishnaprakash2155]

You're saving my job. Thank You :)

[@sayanswar4060]

Hey Patrick ! Hope you are doing good. I am writing this as I found a cool way to show a tool tip which is actually inspired by this video. Many times you get a requirement where you need to show a description/detail of your particular report page if you click a link/button. I got a similar requirement where I need to show a detail of the report page as a pop up when an user will over the cursor on a link. What I did was, I put all the details, which was quite big and customized the page size accordingly after making it a tooltip page. I made a measure, which will be like:- MeasureName = UNICHAR(128161) After that I put this measure in a card, which was ultimately showing a bulb. I turned on the tooltip of this card and linked it to my tool tip page. Boom ! you got it. You hover your mouse and you see the detail. And as you always say, you want it, we give it. Thank You Patrick for the videos. If you feel what I shared is good and helpful and a video can be made then please go ahead. Thanks Sayan

[@georgegray2712]

Thanks Patrick. Epic teaching!

[@GuyInACube]

Appreciate that! Thanks for watching George.

[@RodrigoSaito]

Very good man! Do you have other example using double click to show on other page, using filters by component clicked? Thank you very much!

[@alicemorili1330]

Good video. Question for you, under the map option, when I point on the bubble, it will show the tooltips and disappear when I move away. How can I get tooltips stay on the map?

[@overnightgrowth]

This is a really cool feature. Very useful.

[@youssefzaki9142]

Thank you so much. Very helpful

[@ritanoori7326]

Thank you!! Great video.

[@ChrisvanHasselt]

Cool-o! Is there a way to bring in a field or measure description into the tooltip? We have fields with looooong descriptions and short names. I want the short names for labels, but have the lengthy explanatory description on the tooltip.

[@tomforjathi1168]

Hi, Is it possible to have different tool tip value for a a different level in drill down mode

[@swapnjoshi5256]

Wonderfully explained ✌️

[@wimpiewest1187]

Awesome content guys, your channel has helped me so much! Just a quick question, if you use a table as a report page tooltip you sometimes get a scroll bar when there are too many rows to display, is it possible to actually interact with the tooltip and scroll down or is the scroll bar just cosmetic at this stage?

[@brendanobrien2253]

Is there a way to have many fields in the tooltips so that you can export the data as a table?

[@pherb23]

Patrick! Amazing content, love your channel. Is it possible to pin up tooltips for example when you have a large table in it so who watchs it can scroll down in the tooltip? Because when you put your mouse on it, it suddenly dissapears

[@shyamthakur9055]

Thanks for the video! But can you make some vdo's on Tooltips on stacked column chart.

[@Syedkahmed]

Thanks adam, could please share a video of the bar and area chart u have on the screen that looks cool 😍

[@poojadarbhe2791]

Ho to keep the tooltip there on the screen for some more time if we remove the mouse from the visual?

[@alettaenmartin]

Hi Patrick. Great video! Made me smile again... I took me some time to find out I needed to check the 'Report page tooltips', under Options. That enables the option 'Tooltip' under Page Information in my tooltip page.

[@GuyInACube]

Yeah the preview features trip us up sometimes :)

[@DoubleTime_0-0]

Where is options at? Im trying to do the same thing.

[@brownlkt]

File>Options and settings>Options>Preview Features>Check Report Page Tooltips. Hope that helps

[@nakulakant1564]

Which Power Bi visualization is used in second example @ 5:31 which shows figures at top along with histogram

[@semperdiscendum7439]

Loved it!! Thank you!!👍👍

[@GuyInACube]

Anytime! Thanks for watching.

[@kamalverma7904]

Can someone tell me. Which theme is he using in the report. In other words , I liked the color combination in column chart. Any idea how can u archive the same?

[@rammanoharmishra6048]

Hi, is it possible to create a tooltip that shows different values for each column of the matrix? For example, if I have a matrix with three columns (Store Name, Sales, and Profit) then is it possible to have a tooltip that shows information only about stores when user hovers the mouse on store column of the matrix, and so on)

[@fabianabecatini6743]

Great Video! Ty

[@Anandhamurugant]

Hi Patrick, Nice video. We know that if we place two fields in the same axis drill down option will be enabled in a graph. In this case how this tool tip option will work. Do we need to place those two fields in the tool tip page? Could you please clarify on this. Thanks in advance.

[@yoelmusoko4650]

Thanks for helping guy

[@random-null-pointer]

Which visual are you using in "Absence by Grade level"?

[@mucharlaravivenkatateja2412]

Could you please share the link for the source file used for this example?

[@automoglow]

Thanks for the video! New to PBI. How did you get the nice graphics going down the right side? Is that apart of the page just built with text boxes and changing the colors of the background?

[@user-gc9ny6yx8y]

heyy! could you please tell me how to add specific tooltip for each bar if we have 2 bars in a clustered chart. Searched everywhere . Please if someone can help

[@saravanadeva]

Few more useful options are - "Format Page"--> "Canvas Settings"-->"Type=Tooltip"

[@sudh1971]

How do i introduce an hyperlink with tool tip and if i click the tool tip it should stay on the screen and then i should be able to click on the URL or hyperlink ...any suggestions ?

[@zolio26]

I am using a chiclet slicer, how do I enable the tooltip feature for that?

[@bananageorge2133]

Much thanks as usual -

[@amit260183]

Hi Patrick, Can bookmark will be used as ToolTip for visual. Thanks

[@enigmashik]

Dude i like so much your style haha

[@shashanksingh7462]

Hi, How can I create a scroller inside the tooltip ? Is there any way we can create a popup in power bi which is scrollable. Thanks

[@ihorprytula9514]

amazing! thank you!

[@brunoamaral8522]

Why can't I use this feature on a visual from the marketplace like Gantt 1.14.3?

[@izabelaedmunds9746]

Love this new feature, at last I can add images on to the map and using this instead of drillthrough for graphs is much easier from a user perspective (no explanation needed how to use it as you said it Patric you hover over and “bam” its there). 👍

[@GuyInACube]

Woot! 👊

[@mshparber]

What kind of chart is "Absences by Grade Level"? Thanks!

[@khizmiceter]

Great video.. Does this work in the mobile layout?

[@vvanasperen]

Another great video. Thanks. :-)

[@GuyInACube]

Thanks for watching Vincent! 👊

[@rajarajanseeman6758]

can we add tooltip for one of the columns in a table? if yes how, if no, why . could you answer this question?

[@rebelatrest]

Thanks Pat. I'm trying to apply a tooltip to a Power BI card (numbers and text only, as opposed to a chart) and the tooltip does not appears to work. If I change from Card to Chart the tooltip works. Is this is tooltip limitation or am I missing something?

[@celioguimaraes765]

Hey, Patrick! Nice Video! One particular question: is it possible to embed all the tooltip pages created into one new page? Or, in other words, is it possible to embed a Power BI page into another Power Bi Page in the same Dashboard Project? Do you have any tip to easily achieve this (instead of copy it manually)?

[@markwiley2412]

Excellent video - very powerful feature. Even though I am three years late....lol

[@lialan4967]

hi, I created a tooltip page. Can I hide it when I publish,thinks

[@vincentsvlog1761]

Hello Patrick, Is there any way to improve PBi performance when I pull massive data, a number of Excle files transformed to a table, from SharePoint site?

[@gopigopichand4379]

Super feature.. awesome

[@sbeke100]

Nice one! Is there a way to show other tooltips/graphs based on the level in a matrix (hierarchy)? I have sales in countries (header 1), cities (header 2) and streets (header 3) in a matrix structure and i want my tooltip to show the details on each level. So when i hover over a country, i want to see a breakdown of all sales in the cities that are in that specific country. When i hover over a city, i want to see a breakdown of sales in the streets that are in that specific city. Basically I need to see another graph based on the "selection" in my hierarchy. Is that possible? Thanks a lot!!

[@abhimanyusinghchouhan1691]

I create a dynamic x - axis that switches between gender and embakment port. I want the tooltip to be displayed only if the attribute on x-axis is gender, but not on embarkment port. I tried adding filter, but it didn't work

[@amandaharris8991]

Is there a way to use a report page tooltip for a button?

[@PJJFMarquesChannel]

Hi Patrick, Suppose you are using the table view and you want to have a different tooltip according to the field. It's possible? If so, how? Thanks for all the great work you and Adam have on this great channel...

[@majdyazigi8185]

Patrick, first I like your video, second I love you :) can I ask you what if I want to override this tooltip with the old traditional one for certain visuals, is this possible?

[@sumanchakraborty681]

Can I create tooltip page for line chart.

[@MarkCBB86]

These are awesome

[@manigopalakshintala1165]

how to change tooltip to show it in the below of selection

[@aidohapidoha]

how have u put a selected school name? pls, anyone, could u explain?

[@KBS-vlogs]

Can you please provide the pbix file of the report?

[@rodrigomoya5018]

Thanks for the video! Off the record : It's just me or every time I saw a Guy in a cube video, Patrick has another monitor in his desktop? :D

[@GuyInACube]

LOL. The more the merrier. Thanks for watching!

[@busyperson4142]

today I watched your video for the first time and you are very very fast. I have to go back 10 times in order to figure out on which page you are making changes. you definitely need to slow down. I am here to learn the new feature of Power BI and you are changing pages so frequently that I couldnt figure out as which page you are on i.e. Tooltip page or Report page.

[@GuyInACube]

Appreciate the feedback. This was an older video, and as we have done more, we are striving to do better. Would love your feedback if the more recent videos are better paced.

[@user-fr6hq7wn8p]

i have a table where there are ratings for each name, the rating column named as monthly, quaterly and yearly each column has a separate comments column named as month_rating_comments, quarterly_rating_comments and so on , i want to create a table visual where if i hover on the specific rating it will show me only its particular comment using a tooltip

[@anandjavali3627]

I am having performance issue with this option...

[@HEnRiCOVaNDIekERk1]

Dam! This is just so cool!

[@shilpashiudkar2878]

I want to add table as a tooltip for my map in power BI

[@ravaliuppala6627]

could you share the pbix file if possible

[@msamyelsheikh]

Awsome!

[@AashishT]

i liked your example, THANK YOU SO MUCH. With due respect, it became a bit confusing @4:18 as to which screens you were flipping, or going to , it would be great if you can show on right hand corner higligted which screen you are on when you flip the page screens, then probably I can relate. Otherwise, very well made - thank you for your efforts

[@divyapanasam292]

please do a vedio on creating report page tooltip to display info when we hover over an icon of particular device on a map..

[@GuyInACube]

Thanks for the feedback. In general the steps are the same. I know the map visual supports report level tooltips. I'm not quite sure I understand the scenario.

[@robertjanusz3136]

this might need an update, the menu has changed, great feature though, thank you

[@federicosantaanagreen6143]

Hey Patrick, I know this video is more than one year old, but I just saw it. Great video, by the way. I was wondering if you can custumize tooltips so that you can display definitions (or any text, really). That would be really helpful. If you have any ideas, please let us know!

[@GuyInACube]

Thanks for watching Federico! It's just a report page. You can put whatever you want on it. Including Text! Check out Prathy's blog about using these for visual tool tips - prathy.com/2019/07/power-bi-visual-header-tooltip/

[@albertvargasUX]

Hey Patrick - great video! I was wondering if this could be applied to individual column headers? Or is there a way to customize the default HEADER of a column.

[@GuyInACube]

If you mean displaying the report page tooltip only on the column header, that doesn't exist.

[@albertvargasUX]

@@GuyInACube wahhhhh

[@santoshraghunath8133]

U r just awesome

[@GuyInACube]

Thanks, Santosh! Much appreciated!

[@bcippitelli]

Thanks! This is one of the best ways to learn the amazing Power Bi

[@GuyInACube]

Glad it helps you out! 👊

[@yoshihirokawabataify]

Excellent, thank you how to create tooltip.

[@GuyInACube]

Most welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@lucapriano6140]

I've tried using the feature in embedded reports using Power BI Embedded but it doesn't work no more: isn't it available for embedding? Thanks

[@GuyInACube]

Report page tooltips aren't available for embedding yet. It is coming.

[@tanababa]

Thank you @-)

[@varunjain3829]

Can we use calculate measure in tool tip?

[@GuyInACube]

Yes. Just be careful about your filter context. We have used Sync Slicers in the past to get the right filter context.

[@umeashvg2010]

the custom tool tip doesn't work for table or matrices, is there any way to enable that?

[@GuyInACube]

It should work with the latest build of Power BI Desktop.

[@megmagruder7124]

Picking up Tooltip knowledge

[@Moorealife]

Is tooltip compatible with Box and Whiskers?

[@GuyInACube]

Not at this time.

[@BertandRussell]

Hi, This channel really imparts very nice and advanced training on Power BI. Thanks a lot. Now, if you allow me to share a feedback, I would be very happy. Feedback is that, you can share video with more on the screen of laptop and less on your eye contact. It would become a perfect one. Best wishes and Warm regards

[@divyapanasam292]

And also i want to know the version of powerbi use have used in this vedio....

[@GuyInACube]

It's an older version. Video was published in late April of 2018. So either the March or April 2018 build of Power BI Desktop. We always stay on the latest build.

[@divyapanasam292]

@@GuyInACubeokay.. Thank you..