Configuring visual tooltips
When space is limited in your report, a useful add-on is tooltips. Tooltips allow you to display additional information when you hover over a specific part of the visual object, as seen in Figure 8.39.
Figure 8.39: Power BI default tooltip
There are three types of tooltips available in Power BI:
- Default tooltip: When you add a visual object such as a bar chart, as shown in Figure 8.39, and hover over one of the bars, you will see a tooltip displaying information about that specific dimension.
- Modern tooltip: This is an enhanced version of the default tooltip. In this tooltip, you have more formatting options and access to Drill-down and Drill-through buttons.
- Page tooltip: This type of tooltip is versatile. With it, you can configure an entire page to be used as a tooltip for a visual object, as shown in the following figure:
Figure 8.40: Power BI page tooltip
Although tooltips...