Tooltip next to the chart title

[alextsayun]

Maybe someone knows a good solution for adding a custom tooltip next to the chart title. Users find it quite difficult to navigate large dashboards and understand some of the metrics. I haven’t found anything similar in the community. The ideal case to put explanation info to this tooltip. Thanks!

[dosubot[bot]]

Hi @alextsayun! I'm Dosu and I’m helping the superset team.

There isn't a built-in or UI-based way to add custom tooltips next to chart titles in Superset dashboards. However, you can achieve this with a small frontend code change. The SliceHeader component, which renders the chart title, already wraps the title in a Tooltip and supports custom tooltip content via the getSliceHeaderTooltip function. You can customize this function to display your own explanatory info for each chart title, or modify the SliceHeader to include an info icon with a tooltip (using the Tooltip or InfoTooltip components) next to the title for more flexibility. The ExploreChartHeader component also supports rendering additional items next to the title, which could be used for a similar purpose. This approach requires editing the frontend code, specifically in files like superset-frontend/src/dashboard/components/SliceHeader/index.tsx and superset-frontend/src/dashboard/util/getSliceHeaderTooltip.tsx
SliceHeader example
Tooltip usage pattern
InfoTooltip example

There is no way to do this via dashboard configuration or the Superset UI at this time. If you or others have a reusable solution, sharing it with the community would be valuable!

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