# Unified Tooltips in Tableau Desktop & Web Edit | New in Tableau 2023.2

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2023-06-20
- **Format:** Video · 3 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation
- **Tools:** Tableau (calculated fields, filters, table calculations, tooltips)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/unified-tooltips-in-tableau-desktop-web-edit-new-in-tableau-2023-2
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6M7tlOXltA

I walk through the new unified tooltips feature in Tableau 2023.2, showing how hovering over fields in the filters and other shelves now surfaces extra information. I demonstrate how it summarises table calculations and flags calculation errors without having to open each dialog.

## Key takeaways

- Unified tooltips appear when you hover over fields on shelves, including filters, surfacing pertinent information at the cursor
- Hovering over a field with a table calculation gives a plain-language summary of what calculation is running, saving you opening Edit Table Calculation
- More complex table calculations (across then down) update the tooltip description with additional detail
- When a calculation breaks, the tooltip tells you the calculation is invalid so you can debug errors without digging into the calculation editor

## Chapters

- 0:00 Unified tooltips on filters
- 0:21 Summarising table calculations
- 1:20 Surfacing calculation errors
- 2:04 What it means going forward

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/unified-tooltips-in-tableau-desktop-web-edit-new-in-tableau-2023-2

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