Tooltip

Tooltip is represented with the  icon.

A tooltip is displayed when you hover over a Mark. 

Any field that you drop on Tooltip is added to the tooltip box. The fields in the tooltip are always aggregated. However, you can still add a Dimension to the tooltip. Tableau uses a special aggregation, ATTR, to display it. This aggregation returns the value if it's unique, or shows * if not. That symbol means that there is more than one value.

Clicking on the Tooltip button opens a window where you can edit the text and change a few options. Those options allow you to:

  • Choose whether you want to show the Tooltip
  • Include the command buttons ...

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