Create Tooltip
Build a rich hover tooltip straight from your chart
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Key Features
Read a chart's series, colours, and line styles and build a proper canvas tooltip — a formatted table with an icon, colour, name, and value per series — wired up for you.
Hover over a multi-series chart and Power BI's default tooltip is a plain, styleless list. A canvas tooltip does it properly — a little table with each series' icon, its colour, its name, and its value — but building one by hand is a slog: a metadata table of the series, a handful of DAX measures for the value / icon / colour / display logic, a laid-out tooltip page, and the wiring back to the chart. This skill reads the chart, works out every series and its style, and builds the whole thing in one command — matching the chart's own colours and line styles — run it with /create-tooltip.
How it works
Type /create-tooltip, point it at your chart (or charts), answer a few quick questions, and the skill builds everything:
Reads your chart — its type, the measures in the value and tooltip wells, and each series' colour and line/marker style
Asks a few things — a short prefix for naming, how the values should be formatted (integer, decimal, percentage, or your own), and which folder the measures go in
Maps the icons — gives each series a Unicode icon that matches how it looks on the chart (solid / dashed / dotted line, column block, or a marker shape)
Builds the metadata table — a small table of the series with their colours, icons, and sort order
Writes the measures — 5–7 DAX measures for the value lookup, data presence, icon, colour, and display, plus a comment measure when the chart has tooltip-well fields
Creates the tooltip page — a date card, a formatted data table, and a separator, auto-sized to the number of series
Wires it to the chart — so hovering shows your new tooltip
What you get
A canvas tooltip — hovering the chart shows a table with each series' icon, colour, name, and value, formatted the way you chose
A metadata table — the series with name, colour, type, and sort-order columns
5–7 DAX measures — value lookup, data presence, icon display, colour binding, display formatting, sort key, and optionally a comment measure for tooltip-well items
The tooltip page — auto-sized, with a date card, a formatted data table (icon, colour, series name, value), and a separator line
Visual wiring — the tooltip linked to the source chart
Supported chart types
Chart type | Y wells | Y2 wells | Y series | Y2 series |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Line chart | Yes | -- | Line | -- |
Stacked column combo | Yes | Yes | Column | Line |
Clustered column combo | Yes | Yes | Column | Line |
Stacked column | Yes | -- | Column | -- |
Clustered column | Yes | -- | Column | -- |
Column chart | Yes | -- | Column | -- |
Stacked bar | Yes | -- | Column | -- |
Clustered bar | Yes | -- | Column | -- |
Area chart | Yes | -- | Line | -- |
Stacked area | Yes | -- | Column | -- |
100% stacked column | Yes | -- | Column | -- |
100% stacked bar | Yes | -- | Column | -- |
100% stacked area | Yes | -- | Column | -- |
All types can include a Tooltips well for additional comment/text measures displayed below a separator.
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Tool Information
Skill
39 USD
Bundle (All skills)
249 USD
Category
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Version
Version 3.2.2.2.6.2
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