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Power BI Report Page Tooltips

Tooltips in Power bi

Power BI Report Page Tooltips is very cool feature of Power BI Desktop, it help us to explore our visuals more deeper and it is very easy to use. Tooltips appears when the cursor is hovering over a visual.

Let’s get started-

Sample Dataset download from here- Global Super Store Dataset

Now create two separate page, one main page & second for Tooltips:-

Category Sales Page-

Add one clustered column chart with below columns-

Axis: Region, Values: Sales

Clustered column chart

Clustered column chart -tooltip



Create second page for Tooltip:

Enable & set the page size for Tooltip-

  • Click anywhere on blank page then go to Format section.
  • Go to Page information > Enable Tooltip.
  • Then click on Page Size and select page size type Tooltip, by default it is 16.9.
  • Then go to View menu tab, and under Page View select  ‘Actual Size’, see below right side screen shot.
Set Page size and page view for tooltip

Set Page size and page view for tooltip

After that add some visuals in Tooltip page, which you want to display as in Tooltip.

Tooltip page Power BI

Tooltip page Power BI



Now enable Tooltip for Category Sales Page

Go to Format section > Enable Tooltip > Select Tooltip Page name.

Enable Tooltip

Set Tooltip Page

Now mouseover the any bar on clustered column chart and you will see the Tooltip.

Tooltip Result

Tooltip Result

Watch Practical video :-

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