Hello, I need some help formatting the tooltip for my Stacked 100% Bar chart in Quick Sight. On hover, I want the tooltip to display BOTH the percentage and quantity of the values in that category. The problem I’m facing is that it only shows data as a percentage. Here is an example of what I’m …

The percentage format in the tooltip is the only option for the stacked bar charts.

Have you tried creating a custom tooltip for the visual: Customizing tooltips in an Amazon QuickSight visual - Amazon QuickSight

Yes, I have created a custom tooltip. Apologies for not including a picture, I was limited to only including 1 image. When creating the tooltip I am selecting the “COUNT” aggregation, which I was hoping would simply give me the numeric count of members in that category, but it seems to only show d…

The format of the tooltip measure is driven by the format defined for the field in the visualization layer. See this example how the tooltip “Constructor count” format changes with changes in the format of the underlying field- constructorid. [tooltip-percentage-format]

Oddly I am not seeing the same thing: [tooltip] I am curious if the format could somehow be influenced by the type of chart.

Gotcha. That is a little disappointing as being able to get a sense of the number of records in each category adds a lot of context to the percentage of the whole. This seems like it would be a good feature to add. I appreciate the clarification!

I have the same problem. Has someone has any solution for this issue?

We are encountering the same issue, desiring to show the unique count that is represented by the % in the bar section. @saunakchandra - can this be raised a feature request to enhance the stacked bar chart visual tooltip capabilities? Having the ability to display a non-percentage value in the sta…

Thank you @saunakchandra ! Thanks, all! :slight_smile:

Formatting Tooltip for Stacked 100% Bar Chart

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saunakchandra March 30, 2023, 12:53am 10

Thank you for raising this as a concern. I have raised the feature request to the product team.

Divide a calculated field by LAC field

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Formatting Tooltip for Stacked 100% Bar Chart

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