You can also insert another worksheet from the workbook into the tooltip. Let’s say you want your user to be able to see where the particular state is on the map. We can do this by executing the following steps:
- Create another sheet with the map, just by opening a blank worksheet and double-clicking on State in Dimensions.
- On the original sheet, double-click on Tooltip to open the Edit Tooltip window and add an empty row:
- Click on Insert and navigate to Sheets | Sheet 2. Tableau will insert an expression referencing Sheet 2 into the Tooltip section:
- If you go to Sheet 2, you will notice that Tableau added Tooltip (State) as a filter. When your mouse cursor goes over any of the states in Sheet 1, a tooltip with a map marking that state will show up:
