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Tooltips in Tableau Next Visualizations
Gain deeper insights into your data by reviewing additional context for a data mark in a Tableau Next visualization with custom tooltips. By default, a tooltip includes information based on the fields in the visualization. Customize the tooltip to control its content and appearance.
Required Editions
| View supported editions. |
This table describes the content, formatting, appearance, and display options that you can configure in a custom tooltip.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Font | Select a font type and font size. Select a text color from the Default palette, or define a custom color with the color picker or a Hex or RGB value. |
| Text formatting | Apply bold, italic, or underline formatting to selected text. Click |
| Alignment | Align text to the left, center, or right. |
| Fields and parameters | Insert fields used in the visualization and parameters defined in the semantic data model. |
| Background | Select a background color from the Default palette, or define a custom color with the color picker or a Hex or RGB value. Adjust the background opacity. |
| Settings | Choose whether to show the tooltip and command buttons. Command buttons allow you to include or exclude data directly from a mark. |
Keep these factors in mind when reviewing the content of a default tooltip:
- When the Marks card is divided into sections, each mark’s tooltip includes fields from the section associated with its pane and from the All section.
- In a map that uses a combination of latitude and longitude fields to position marks, the tooltip includes the underlying latitude and longitude fields.
Customize Tooltips in Tableau Next Visualizations
Customize a tooltip to give analysts useful context as they examine a data mark in a visualization. Choose which fields and parameters to include, format the content to make key details easy to scan, and add command buttons that analysts can use to include or exclude data directly from the mark.
Required Editions
| View supported editions. |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To customize tooltips in Tableau Next visualizations: | Tableau Unmetered Platform Analyst or Tableau Next Platform Analyst permission set |
- In a visualization, click Tooltip on the Marks card.
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In the Edit Tooltip dialog, customize the tooltip
content.
- Add fields used in the visualization.
- Add parameters defined in the semantic data model.
- Add text to provide context about the displayed data.
- Format the tooltip text by choosing a font and size, applying text styles, and setting the alignment.
- Customize the text color, background color, and background opacity.
- Choose whether to show the tooltip.
- Choose whether to show the Include and Exclude command buttons.
