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Adding tooltips - Tableau Tutorial
From the course: Tableau Certified Data Analyst Cert Prep
Adding tooltips
- [Instructor] Let's return to the individual worksheet for a moment. We are currently displaying whatever measure the user chooses. It would be helpful to still display the other measures, even if just in a hidden way. So let's add them to the tooltip. I'm interested in the quantity, total price, and profit margin, so I drag them to the tooltip. Because the selected measure can only either be total price or quantity, and because we have both of those fields in the tooltip, I can right-click on selected measure and untick include in tooltip. When clicking on tooltip in the marks cart, a text box pops up. Anything in angle brackets will be replaced with the actual value at that mark. We can use this to clean up the tooltip. For example, I just want to show category in the month of purchase and have all of this in one row and make it slightly bigger. Maybe we'll even add a line break after. If I confirm and close this now, I can see that all my tooltips have been added accordingly. If…
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