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Change Tooltip Background Colour and Transparency

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Russell Larkin on 13 Jul 2017 16:48:53

It would be useful to be able to change the background colour and transparency of the tooltip to highlight and colour-code, and to allow parts of the visual to be seen behind it. The latter would be extremely useful when comparing data in visuals and for when you have a tooltip with a lot of measures listed as the tooltip can often get in the way.

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Oluwadolapo Bifarin on 23 Jun 2022 20:54:36

RE: Change Tooltip Background Colour and Transparency

This is definitely needed for report page tooltips. This will save me a lot of mental straining, which is the aim of presentation anyways.

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Chivon Blanton on 15 Jun 2022 20:47:03

RE: Change Tooltip Background Colour and Transparency

Transparency of report page tooltip desperately needed for decent UX! 🙏

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Daniel Moniak on 28 Apr 2022 10:39:11

RE: Change Tooltip Background Colour and Transparency

Shame, shame, shame :D How can tooltip from a page loose its transparency settings when using on other pages.......Please, please, please, fix that up for users :)BRDaniel

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Brent Collett on 13 Apr 2022 03:06:44

RE: Change Tooltip Background Colour and Transparency

It's worth adding that transparency is required for report page tooltips.

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Juliette COLLON on 01 Dec 2021 15:25:24

RE: Change Tooltip Background Colour and Transparency

I would also like to have more options on tooltips (transparency background + position + ability to scroll on the tool tip tab for instance)

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Dennis Faust on 06 Jul 2020 00:18:26

RE: Change Tooltip Background Colour and Transparency

Would like to see a tooltip with a transparent background option - essentially no background so that the text in the tooltip in is the foreground

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Guillaume Dautzenberg on 05 Jul 2020 23:59:47

RE: Change Tooltip Background Colour and Transparency

I would also love having ability to have different tooltip based on the visual context.

e.g possibility to have a tooltip specific to a "category column" of a matrix and another one different when hovering on the summarized values.

For now you can only have one tooltip for a given visual.

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David PROVOST on 05 Jul 2020 23:54:27

RE: Change Tooltip Background Colour and Transparency

'Native, dark tooltip give very awesome UX when background is configured slightly transparent.
Power BI propose to configure transparency, both :
- in the parent visual's "tooltip / background" section (usually)
- in the tooltip page's background setting
Bur none of them end up with some transparency on the actual tooltip.

This is not rational (big ?). And this is disapointing.

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Nik on 05 Jul 2020 23:41:32

RE: Change Tooltip Background Colour and Transparency

I second that. Please add more controls of the tooltip (eg holding Ctrl button would make it stick so that a hyperlink within the tooltip can be selected) including the default positioning option per visual i.e. top/bottom/left/right.