Choose the Tooltips to Display in a Visualization

When you hover over a data point in a visualization, a tooltip displays and provides specific information about the data point. You can choose to see all tooltips or only the measures included in the Tooltip section of the Grammar pane.

For example, if you create a simple bar chart visualization that shows revenue for countries in the Americas region, the tooltip displays the region's name, the country's name, and exact revenue amount. If you add Target Revenue to the Tooltip section of the Grammar pane, then the target revenue amount is displayed in the tooltip and the user can easily compare the actual revenues with the target revenues. Set the Tooltip field in General in the Properties pane, to Tooltip Grammar Only if you want the tool tip to contain only the target revenue amount.
Note the following restrictions:
  • You can drag and drop only measure columns to the Tooltip section in the Grammar pane.
  • The Tooltip section in the Grammar pane doesn't display for all visualization types.
  1. On the Home page, hover over a workbook, click Actions, then select Open.
  2. Select a visualization on the canvas.
  3. Drag and drop one or more measure columns from the Data pane to the Tooltip section in the Grammar pane.
    Hover the mouse pointer over a data point on the visualization to display the tooltip. Because the Tooltip field is set to All Data by default, the tooltip contains the data point's values for all columns included in the visualization. The data values for the columns that you added to the Tooltip section are displayed at the bottom of the tooltip.
  4. Optional: Use the Tooltip field to display only the data values that you want or to turn off the tooltip.
    • If you want the tooltip to display data values for only the columns you dragged to the Tooltip section, then set the Tooltip field to Tooltip Grammar Only.
    • If you don't want the tooltip to be displayed, then confirm that there are no columns in the Tooltip section and set the Tooltip field to Tool Tip Grammar Only.