In the fast-paced world of business intelligence, delivering data insights that are both clear and engaging is essential. SAP Lumira, a robust self-service data visualization tool, empowers users to explore and analyze data interactively. One subtle but powerful feature to improve user experience (UX) in Lumira dashboards is tooltip customization. By tailoring tooltips, analysts can provide richer context, clarify complex data points, and make dashboards more intuitive.
This article explores how tooltip customizations in SAP Lumira can enhance the overall user experience, with practical tips and examples for SAP professionals.
Tooltips are small informational pop-ups that appear when users hover over data points, charts, or visual elements. They offer additional details without cluttering the main visualization, making them ideal for providing context such as exact values, calculations, explanations, or data source information.
Default tooltips in SAP Lumira show basic information like measure values and categories. However, customizing tooltips allows you to:
SAP Lumira allows you to edit tooltip content for many visualization types. To customize:
Create calculated fields to show additional metrics such as:
Include these calculations in tooltips for dynamic, context-sensitive insights.
You can enhance readability by:
For combo charts or multi-series charts, show relevant data for each series in the tooltip. This helps users compare values without switching views.
Customizing tooltips in SAP Lumira is a simple yet effective way to enhance dashboard usability and user engagement. Thoughtfully designed tooltips provide valuable context, reduce confusion, and enable users to explore data with greater confidence. For SAP consultants and business analysts, mastering tooltip customization can significantly improve the impact of BI reports and dashboards.
By leveraging calculated fields, clear formatting, and relevant content in tooltips, you create dashboards that not only display data but also tell compelling stories — all while keeping the interface clean and user-friendly.
Tags: SAP Lumira, Tooltip Customization, User Experience, Data Visualization, Business Intelligence, SAP Analytics