Adding Tooltip to Visual
Monday, May 10th, 2021
I created mock data with mockaroo.com which you can download here. Loaded into PowerBI

Create an average salary by title bar chart:

Create a second report page with a card. Under Page Information, set tooltip to On.

Next we need to specify fields that will trigger the tooltip. Switch to value and drag title to the tooltips fields area. We want the tooltip to appear when we mouse over the title, so drag title to the “title” to the “Add data fields here” area.

Now when we go back to the bar chart we see this:

One problem – the tooltip is gigantic! How to make it a reasonable size? Go back to the tooltip page and set the page size to tooltip:

Should look more reasonable now!

Here’s a link to the workbook.