Your Sisense charts are clean, but are your tooltips telling the whole story? | Help and How-To

Mia Isaacson · 2026-05-26T23:04:48.468951Z

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 doPre-defined Tooltips: Two styled tooltip options (Tooltip 1 & 2) that instantly upgrade the look and feelUser-defined Tooltips: Add any measure as a tooltip value, even if it's disabled from display on the chart itselfWorks Across Chart Types: Compatible with column, bar, line, area, and pie chartsAggregated 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 tooltipNo Chart Redesign Required: Enriches existing widgets without touching the underlying layout or dataA few use cases where it shinesSales 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 afterBefore: Sisense native tooltips display the series and valueAfter: Choose between three different tooltip options that increase readability and add contentIt's free — part of the QBeeQ Starter PowerUpThe 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.👉 Get the free Starter PowerUp🔗 Advanced Tooltip Product Page 📄 Advanced Tooltip DocumentationHave questions or want to share how you're using it? Drop a comment below!

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