Jack Wells on 09 Mar 2018 00:32:20
New report page tooltip preview feature in the March update is great.
Would be nice if we had the option of adding this tooltip to visuals that previously didn't have a tooltip.
For example, I have a card visual. I'd like users to get one of these mini report pages pop-up when they hover over it but as this visual doesn't have a tooltip it can't be used.
Would be great if we can do this on other things like shapes and text boxes as well.
Administrator on 08 Mar 2019 01:25:51
Since the initial release, we added support for table, matrix, and cards. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-july-2018-feature-summary/#tableTooltips https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-september-2018-feature-summary/#tooltips I'll leave this idea open for now since there are some requests for shapes, textboxes, and buttons, but it would be helpful if people can comment on their use cases for report page tooltips on these non-visual report elements.
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RE: Report page tooltip on all objects
Yes! now that the tooltips are customizable, it is basically the best way to add extra info to visuals without overloading them visually.
RE: Report page tooltip on all objects
Upvote. I want to add tooltips to KPI, card, and multi-row card visuals but can't!
RE: Report page tooltip on all objects
Would also be really awesome if we could do this on images - i.e. so we could add images of icons and then the user can hover over them for more info
RE: Report page tooltip on all objects
I also need to do this so that I can see the breakdown of the factors going into a KPI. Currently I do this by using a bubble chart that is reduced to a tiny box so the bubble is invisible (because bubbles are transparent) - so when the user hovers over the area they can see the tooltip. It's a major hack and it's not pretty, but it's better than nothing.
RE: Report page tooltip on all objects
We use report page tooltips on the Table visual a lot, but its a real pain that you can't assign the tooltip to a particular column, only the whole row. Please allow report page tooltips for each column.
Agree with the other comments about extending report page tooltips to all visuals.
RE: Report page tooltip on all objects
'+1, this would be awesome!
Currently my client want to show a picture tooltip (picture = whole tooltip page) but we would love the possibility to be able to click on the item (button) to do some action.
Now I am using card with blank characters to show the tooltip.
RE: Report page tooltip on all objects
I would appreciate if buttons had the same ability to have a Report page tooltip functionality. When customers hover over a card or any type of visual to point things out for the audience, for instance, they don't necessarily want it to be covered by the page tooltip. However, if there was an information button in the corner of the visual connected to the tooltip page, this provides a more controlled environment where if they want to see the tooltip, they just hover over the button.
RE: Report page tooltip on all objects
Definitely really need tooltips in text boxes at the minimum - the way that I get around this today is to actually create a .png image of the textbox / text label I need to tooltip and embed that into my Power BI reports today which feels clunky at best
As others have commented below, my primary use case is metric definition - if I'm making a dashboard that has several KPIs on it, from a UX perspective, a lot of users would prefer to stay on a single page than having to go to another page that has all of the metric definitions on it - to be able to hover over a metric label and better understand information about it (e.g. Productivity is a calculation of a over b) that can't otherwise be very easily understood is absolutely critical
Mind you the image workaround is working today, but would be much easier if there were built in tool tips!
The other main reason for using textboxes vs. cards is because textboxes offer significantly more WYSIWIG functionality (e.g. bold/italics/underline) which you can't get in cards without installing separate fonts - because text boxes are so easy to use, typically I'm only using a card for the "big number", but because I need to make my text look a certain way that can't be generated easily via a card's title properties, I typically hide the card's title and create one myself as a text box
RE: Report page tooltip on all objects
'+1 for allowing custom report page tooltips on buttons. Main use case is for "info" icons (usually definitions of terms used throughout the report, or caveats about the data).
Currently we're accomplishing this by using the info icon unicode character in a measure, and putting that in a card that supports tooltips. However this seems like a hack, and is also clunky because of the way tooltips are triggered on cards. They only show up when mousing on the character itself, rather than the area of the whole card. It would be easier if card tooltips triggered when mousing on anywhere in the card, not just on the text. That could lessen the need to add it to buttons.
Update: Found this tutorial for another hack - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IURWlw2_6Ks&pbjreload=10 - though can't get it working. More evidence for this need.
Update 2: If it helps anyone else - we were able to create a measure that was all spaces and apply that to a card to use it as a blank hotspot to trigger tooltips over any object. You get an ellipsis though if the spaces overflow, so either need multiple measures depending on size of card, or to position/color so the ellipsis blend in.
RE: Report page tooltip on all objects
While tooltips are mostly for exposing datapoints, the one thing I use them for a lot is essentialy user documentation. One thing the company is very interested in is that everyone has a common understanding of the metrics and what they are telling them. I am using header tooltips to display definitional information to make sure the user understands what they are looking at.
The use case for Buttons/Text/Links/etc is that the user needs feedback (at times) for which button to press for certain outputs. "Why would I use that button over this one?" By providing a quick hover detail that can give them an explanation they can self discover.