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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide The ultimate beginner's guide to data modeling, visualization, digital storytelling, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804613498
Length 330 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Mitchell Pearson Mitchell Pearson
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Devin Knight Devin Knight
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Bradley Schacht Bradley Schacht
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Erin Ostrowsky Erin Ostrowsky
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Gaining Data Literacy with Power BI FREE CHAPTER 2. Connecting to Data 3. Data Transformation Strategies 4. Building the Data Model 5. Leveraging DAX 6. Visualizing Data 7. Digital Storytelling with Power BI 8. Using a Cloud Deployment with the Power BI Service 9. Data Cleansing in the Cloud with Dataflows 10. On-Premises Solutions with Power BI Report Server 11. Other Books You May Enjoy
12. Index

Report pages as tooltips

Tooltips are another useful feature that allows a user to see precise information about a piece of a visual while moving the mouse around the Report canvas. While the formatting options discussed in the previous chapter can display value labels on a visual, sometimes that can cause a report to become too cluttered or a visual may just be too small to display a label. Tooltips solve this problem by allowing a user to see the label information for only the slide of data they care about. But what if those tooltips could display even more information and provide even greater insight? Thankfully, Power BI comes through on this front by allowing you to specify a report page as a tooltip for a visual.

Power BI includes a few different important options for tooltip visuals. First, to use a visual for a tooltip, you must create a report page and set the property for Allow use as tooltip to On, which is found in the Format section, then Page Information settings. Next,...

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