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Help Tooltip

Explain terminology, calculation or metric meaning.

Interactive example

Tooltips carry secondary detail only — never the answer to the page's main question.

Simulated behaviour on the shared fictional retail dataset. Native mechanism: Yes.

Best for

Specialized metrics, abbreviations and non-obvious business rules.

Avoid when

Long documentation or essential instructions.

Typical data

Relevant recovered tags: help, tooltip, definition

Usage

Specialized metrics, abbreviations and non-obvious business rules.

Power BI limitation

Hover/focus discoverability; screen-reader limitations apply to tooltip content.