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The public preview of modern visual tooltips includes data point drill actions and updated styling to match your report theme.
Sujata demonstrates how the modern visual tooltips work in this video.
Note
This video might use earlier versions of Power BI Desktop or the Power BI service.
When you enable this preview, new reports have modern tooltips enabled by default. However, to have the new tooltips in existing reports, you need to enable them for each report.
In Power BI Desktop, go to File > Options and settings > Options > Preview features.
Select the Modern visual tooltips checkbox.
Restart Power BI Desktop.
When you enable these new tooltips, you can drill down and up, and drill through on a data point without having to use the right-click menu or the header for the visual.
For example, when you hover over the Word data point in a bar chart, you can Drill down on the data point or Drill through. If you select Drill down, the visual updates to display the next level in the hierarchy and filter to Word.
If you select Drill through, you see which pages you can drill through to. In this example, choose either the Market Basket Analysis or the Category Details page.
If you select Market Basket Analysis in the tooltip, you drill through to the Market Basket Analysis page, filtered to Word and any other filters on the source data point.
Once you upgrade to the new tooltips, you might notice an updated styling that's based on the report’s theme colors:
For example, this tooltip has the Default theme style:
Here’s an example with the Innovate theme:
Here’s an example with the Frontier theme:
To customize the styling further in Power BI Desktop, you can update the Tooltip theme in the Customize theme dialog:
Additionally, you can format tooltips per visual by customizing the settings in the Format pane:
Drill actions aren't available in the tooltip for the following scenarios:
We don't have visual-level control to turn on or off the drill actions for the tooltips. You can enable or disable this capability for a whole report.
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