POWER BI- Drillthrough And Tooltip

Vaishali Goilkar
3 min readOct 22, 2019

DRILLTHROUGH IN POWER BI:-

  • Drillthrough focuses on getting page details.
  • By using Drillthrough, We can go to the one page to another page.
  • EXAMPLE:-
  • When I click on the visualization component it goes to another page i.e. Report Page to Data Page.
REPORT PAGE
DATA PAGE
  • First, we add column names in drill through.
DRILLTHROUGH OPTION ON DATA PAGE
  • Then automatically creates a button i.e. Back button.
  • When we CTRL + Click on button then go back to the previous page.
BACK BUTTON
  • Also, we can right-click on the visualization component. Goto Drillthrough option and select the page which wants to show. i.e. Data Page.
SELECT DRILLTHROUGH OPTION ON REPORT PAGE
  • After that opens the Data page.
RESULT

TOOLTIP IN POWER BI:-

  • When I hover the mouse on the visualization component then show the detail.
  • First, add the page by clicking the + button and that page.
ADD NEW PAGE
  • I will refer to the Data page.
DATA PAGE
  • On Data Page, Goto Format → Page size →Type.
  • Select the Tooltip option.
FORMAT OPTION
  • Then Goto view tab, Click on page view and select the Actual Size.
VIEW TAB
  • Tooltip option enables in Page Information.
PAGE INFORMATION
  • After that select the visualization component and go to the Format option.
  • The format option enables the tooltip option as well as selects the Type and Page.
  • Goto Data Page → Field → Then select Tooltip which is required for page.
FIELD OPTION
  • Then go to the main page which will the hover mouse and shows the detail.
REPORT PAGE
  • On the Report page, Goto Format option → Enable the Tooltip
  • In Tooltip dropdown menu for Type and Page.
  • Select Type is a Report page and Page is Data Page.
FORMAT OPTION ON REPORT PAGE
  • The field option automatically gets the Data page.
  • After that, When I hover the mouse on the visualization component then show the detail.
RESULT

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