Your Sisense charts are clean, but are your tooltips telling the whole story?
Summary: Mia Isaacson introduces the Advanced Tooltip, a feature from QBeeQ that enhances Sisense's native tooltip capabilities. This tool allows dashboards to display supplementary data on hover without cluttering the chart layout, effectively balancing readability with informational depth. It offers pre-defined and user-defined tooltips, supports various chart types, and presents aggregated totals when needed. Emphasizing its no-cost inclusion in the QBeeQ Starter PowerUp bundle, Mia Isaacson encourages users to engage by sharing their experiences.
When your users hover over a data point, what do they actually see? A label, a series name, a value. For simple charts, that's enough. But when a number alone isn't enough to take action, you're left with a familiar tradeoff: add more to the chart and hurt readability, or leave users without the context they need. What if you could surface related metrics on hover, without adding anything to the chart itself? And what if your dashboard builders didn't have to spend time on workarounds just to get there?
The Advanced Tooltip from QBeeQ lets dashboard designers add additional data points to any widget's tooltip, even values that aren't displayed on the chart itself. Users get richer context exactly when they need it, on hover, without changing the chart layout at all.
What is the Advanced Tooltip?
The Advanced Tooltip is a free, partner-supported plugin from QBeeQ that extends Sisense's native tooltip behavior. It works with Sisense-native column, bar, line, area, and pie charts, and can be enabled directly from any widget's three-dot menu. Instead of overwhelming the chart with on-screen data, it surfaces context only when it's needed, improving readability, reducing clutter, and enabling faster decision-making.
What it can do
Pre-defined Tooltips: Two styled tooltip options (Tooltip 1 & 2) that instantly upgrade the look and feel
User-defined Tooltips: Add any measure as a tooltip value, even if it's disabled from display on the chart itself
Works Across Chart Types: Compatible with column, bar, line, area, and pie charts
Aggregated Totals with Break By: When a Break By dimension is active, surface a Sum or Average total across all members per data point at the bottom of the tooltip
No Chart Redesign Required: Enriches existing widgets without touching the underlying layout or data
A few use cases where it shines
Sales dashboards: Keep the chart clean while surfacing contextual data like quota attainment, deal count, and average. deal size on hover.
Operations & supply chain: Layer shipment volume and delay counts into any delivery-rate chart so ops leads get instant context without adding more to an already dense dashboard.
Executive dashboards: Hide supporting metrics like budget variance off the chart but available on hover, keeping leadership views clean without sacrificing detail.
Before and after
Before: Sisense native tooltips display the series and value
After: Choose between three different tooltip options that increase readability and add content
It's free — part of the QBeeQ Starter PowerUp
The Advanced Tooltip is included in QBeeQ's Starter PowerUp, a free bundle of 10 plugins built specifically for Sisense. No cost, actively maintained and supported by the QBeeQ team.
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🔗 Advanced Tooltip Product Page 📄 Advanced Tooltip Documentation
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