Power BI tooltips now accept sentence templates instead of custom report pages
Reviewed by Helen Jones
Microsoft moved the sentence-format tooltip option from preview to general availability. Analysts can now type a template such as "In {Month}, a total of {Total Quantity} units were sold" and the visual inserts the selected field values at runtime. The change applies only to fields already added to the tooltip bucket. Existing tooltip lists and custom report pages remain supported. No calculations or conditional logic can run inside the template. The update is documented in the July 2026 Power BI feature summary and the dedicated tooltip deep-dive post.
Before this update, readable hover text usually required either a dedicated tooltip report page or a DAX measure that concatenated text and numbers. Both approaches added hidden objects that needed maintenance when fields, relationships, or business definitions changed. The new template removes the need for those extra pages in cases where the tooltip only displays existing fields. This lowers the number of objects that can break during refresh or model updates, but it does not address tooltips that require calculations or conditional text.
Analysis
Open the three visuals whose custom tooltip pages only concatenate fields. Replace those pages with the sentence format and delete the extra pages. Anything needing a calculation stays on the custom page for now.
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