Amazon Quick Introduces Sheet Tooltips for Rich, Contextual Data Exploration

Amazon QuickSight Updates

Amazon QuickSight now supports sheet tooltips, allowing authors to provide rich, contextual details when viewers hover over data points without disrupting their analysis flow. This feature enables the creation of dedicated tooltip sheets with visuals, text boxes, and images in a free-form layout. When a viewer hovers over a data point, the tooltip sheet inherits all filters from the source visual and applies an additional filter for the specific data point, delivering a focused breakdown.

This enhancement helps organizations build more intuitive dashboards that reduce the need for multiple sheets or manual navigation. For example, a bar chart showing sales by product category can surface a trend line of monthly sales, a year-over-year growth KPI, and a text box with the category name, all filtered to the category the viewer hovers over. Authors can assign one tooltip sheet to multiple visuals, switch between basic, detailed, and sheet tooltip types at any time, and tables and pivot tables are also supported. Sheet tooltips are available on interactive sheets only.

This feature is now available in all Amazon QuickSight regions where QuickSight is supported.

What to do

• Explore the new sheet tooltips feature in Amazon QuickSight.
• Create dedicated tooltip sheets with visuals, text boxes, and images.
• Assign tooltip sheets to multiple visuals and switch between tooltip types as needed.

Source: AWS release notes

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