Hover Over Text in PowerBI

Power BI supports both default and custom tooltips to display more information when hovering over data points.

1. Default Tooltips: Power BI automatically shows basic information when you hover over a data point (e.g., category, value). No additional setup is required.
2. Custom Tooltips: For more control over what is shown when hovering, you can create custom tooltips by following these steps:

-> Create a Tooltip Page:
– Add a new page in your report.
– Set the page size to Tooltip in the “Page Size” options under the Format pane.
– Toggle Tooltip to “On” under Page Information.
– Design the tooltip page by adding visuals (charts, tables, text boxes) that you want to display when hovering.

-> Link Tooltip Page to Visual:
– Select your main visual.
– Go to Format → Tooltip, change “Type” to Report Page, and select the custom tooltip page you created.
– When hovering over the visual, this custom page will appear as a tooltip.

-> Dynamic Tooltips Using Measures:
– If you want dynamic tooltips based on calculations, create a measure like this:

DAX:

TooltipText = IF([Sales] > 5000, "High Sales", "Low Sales")

3. Add this measure to the Tooltips section of your visual, and it will dynamically show “High Sales” or “Low Sales” depending on the data point.

Using custom tooltips allows for much richer interaction and more context to be displayed when hovering over data points in Power BI visuals.