In previous posts, we’ve looked at creating conditional fields for tooltips and using parameters to add user control to tooltips. Here, we’ll combine these to have a tooltip that users can turn on and off:
To make sure that the tooltip does not show at all when we change the parameter, we need everything in the tooltip to be linked to the parameter control:
For each of the dimensions in the tooltip, we need a simple conditional field that will return the dimension when Tooltips are turned on and null when they are turned off:
I want to show a label for my sales, so I need to create another conditional field to show and hide the text Sales:
Finally, I need a conditional version of my measure to show my sales value in the tooltip:
Once these conditional fields have been made, they all need to be dragged into the tooltip. Everything that isn’t a conditional value needs to be removed from the tooltip, including all of the fields used to build the view and any fixed text (field labels):
Add the parameter control to the view so that users can switch the tooltips on and off, and off you go!
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