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Change number of decimals for tooltips/mouse over of visuals

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on 22 Aug 2016 14:32:50

At the moment several decimals is shown when you hove the mouse over a chart.

It is making noise and it disturbs the user when several additional decimals are shown.
Could you please just turn the number of decimals down to e.g. 4? I expect most business can live with 4 decimals instead of 10.
(In my opinion as a BI consultant 2 decimals should be enough ;-) )

A more advanved solution would be able to set the number of decimals for mouse over/tooltips.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:32:22

RE: Change number of decimals for tooltips/mouse over of visuals

It's impossible to set the number of decimal in the tooltip of the donut chart. It gives a percentage with two decimals.

I used "Count of item" and the tooltip says : "Count of item 84 (67.74%).

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poonam on 05 Jul 2020 23:25:37

RE: Change number of decimals for tooltips/mouse over of visuals

Select the column/measure and go to the modeling>Format and you can format the mouse hover values.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:23:02

RE: Change number of decimals for tooltips/mouse over of visuals

No Linda, even if the field column is a whole number in the data, in the tooltip if you do an average it always gives 2 decimal places. Even when all the values are the same so the average will be a whole number.

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Linda Kammerer on 05 Jul 2020 22:34:34

RE: Change number of decimals for tooltips/mouse over of visuals

Can't you just format the field to show the correct # of decimals? Works for me.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:30:06

RE: Change number of decimals for tooltips/mouse over of visuals

When i use average, the tool tip says like 85.0214577. Is there a way to limit the number of decimals?