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How to Combine Tooltip and Export Image in Tableau Desktop

Publish Date: Sep 24, 2025
Task
How to export the image with tooltips showing up like below.
User-added image
Steps
Tooltips are details that appear when you hover the pointer over one or more marks in the view. Currently, the function of exporting the image with tooltips is not built in the product.

Consider the following workarounds.

Option 1:

Use a screenshot capture tool to create the image.

Option 2:

Add the tooltip contents to a dashboard and export the image of the dashboard.

User-added image
For text contents in tooltips: use parameter action.
For views in tooltips: use filter action.

Please refer to the attached workbook, tooltips.twbx, for details.
Additional Resources
For more information, see Format Titles, Captions, Tooltips, and Legends.
Knowledge Article Number

001458372

Attachments

tooltips.twbx

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