Power BI already had an ability to customize tooltips for visuals in report pages, but we wanted to enable another level of customization for users. Idea was to use what we have right now in pages of report and use them as another layer of information on top of user’s visuals like a tooltip.
This was users can design any tooltip with any information they want and they can easily choose the layout of their tooltip because it is a report page and they already know how to create them.
You can see the difference between normal tooltip and report page tooltip in this image below, as you can see the report tooltips can be really rich and have much more useful information.
Transition between default tooltip with loading message and report page tooltip
Transition between loading message and showing report page tooltip
Different Tooltip Animation Styles
Before releasing this feature Power BI didn’t have an ability to import a theme file and change the whole report color pallete, users had to manually change the colors of each visual from their properties.
With this feature users can easily create a .json file that contains all color values and import them directly from Power BI desktop.
One of the critical factors in delivering a great overall experience in Power BI is performance. As creators, users want their dashboard to load fast and provide quick insights to their customers. To aid this process, we added a feature called Performance Inspector in the Power BI service that helps users inspect and diagnose why the loading time is poor. They’ll see alerts that identify the potential issue and suggest a fix.
