Hello! I would like to know if there’s a way for a short [kpi] description when the user hovers over the KPI visual?

Hello @ghegde ! What type of description are you looking for? To my knowledge, there isn’t an info icon that can be applied like you can in filters. Depending on your desired outcome though there may be a workaround. Do you want something more like the tool tip, or something that defines the data …

Hello @WLS-D ! Thanks for your response. Our requirement is to have all KPI visuals in the first screen /sheet. We have active cases in x, active cases in Y , active clients in X , active clients in Y ., Payments in X, etc. I want to know if when the user is on a certain visual/KPI , can we have a…

Hi @ghegde maybe you can have a look at [image] Help Toggle on a QuickSight Dashboard Question & Answer Hello! We are interested in building out a help toggle on one of our QuickSight dashboards similar to the example at this link: AWS QuickSight Solutions Gallery Is it…

Hello @ghegde ! An out of the box solution doesn’t exist, but I think the solution @ErikG mentioned above will get you pretty close as a workaround! I can mark this as a feature request for the Quicksight team!

Thank you @ErikG learnt something new unfortunately thats not what we are looking for at the moment.

Thank you @WLS-D . Appreciate it!

Description when hovering on a KPI visual

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ErikG January 18, 2024, 7:47pm 4

Hi @ghegde
maybe you can have a look at

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Description when hovering on a KPI visual

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