[TIP 48] Configuring Faster Tool Tips

#1

At times, some visualizations are used to quickly track specific data points values in a dense area (i.e. line charts with data at the day/hour/minute level). In those cases, the tool tips can come in handy in helping the users to identify the exact value of the data point they are currently looking at.


In most cases, the tool tips shouldn't show immediately as that will quickly annoy the users as they move their cursors over the visuals. However, for those specific use cases where the tool tip should show up quickly, you do have a way of configuring a shorter tool tip load delay.


An example and details are available under: http://microsite.dundas.com/redirect.html?dashboard=66be5ddd-2468-4be9-a548-0c18a529cf49

#2

Jordan, great tip and I have used these over the last week. One thing I noticed is the tooltip delay show property is only available for data labels. Can this property be added to normal and html labels too please? I have created svg icons via html labels, which are static for a legend, but we need to show tooltip information on hover, and to have different tooltip delay times (the default and what I set) could annoy or confuse users.

#3

Thanks for the suggestion, Chris. It makes sense, so I opened a feature request for it.