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Jon S on 22 Jan 2016 00:15:18

Custom "tooltips" when hovering over a point on a visual. Month after month, I am required to offer Analysis & Actions narrative for how we're performing. It would be nice to see this by hovering over a point on a visual rather than take up valuable real estate with a text box.

Administrator on 23 Jun 2018 01:59:11

We added report page tooltips back in March to support this. You can learn more my blog post here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-march-2018-feature-summary/ It's currently in preview, but we have plans to add support for table and matrix, and shortly after make the feature generally available. At that point, I'll close this idea.

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Damien Dent on 13 Sep 2022 09:49:31

RE: Custom Tooltips on Hover

come on guys, this is basic functionality on most visualization tools and you've been promising this to us since 2018.. get it on your sprint list for q4 2022

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Greg Tyng on 08 Jun 2022 21:32:46

RE: Custom Tooltips on Hover

This is essential, please add especially for specific matrix table column descriptions

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Scott Davis on 09 Dec 2020 00:14:02

RE: Custom Tooltips on Hover

I need it for Slicers, too.

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Karl Rolfe on 06 Jul 2020 00:13:32

RE: Custom Tooltips on Hover

The implemented solution works for graphs but not tables. We are still without a solution for tables. I am having to provide manual help for users practically every day where a tooltip would 'just do it'. Please implement across all visuals.

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:54

RE: Custom Tooltips on Hover

This would be great, basically like an Excel comment box

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Hamid Ashari on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:10

RE: Custom Tooltips on Hover

The solution needs to field specific if the user desires it to be.
In other words, I do not want a tooltip to appear across every field of my report, but only in certain columns.

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Chris Warrington on 05 Jul 2020 23:53:56

RE: Custom Tooltips on Hover

Come on guys!! I thought this would be a standard. Please could you add asap.

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andrey yakimov on 05 Jul 2020 23:49:16

RE: Custom Tooltips on Hover

The current (May 2019) tooltip solution is not at all complete

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:33:00

RE: Custom Tooltips on Hover

I add on to this. Having custom tooltips on matrix and table visuals would be extremely helpful. The current default tooltip shows the exact same data the table/matrix contains, not very helpful.

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Trev on 05 Jul 2020 23:29:59

RE: Custom Tooltips on Hover

Hi, it would be great if you could add a mouseover or hover text over the card visual to explain what the amount meant