Tooltip for table columns

[shamilh2o]

Hi Team.
Is there any possibility to add column wise tooltips for a wave table instead of adding a single tooltip to a whole table?
I have a requirement on adding tooltip only for a specific column and looking how to overcome it.
Thanks in advance.

[marek-mihok]

Hi Shamil, this is not supported in Wave currently. Is using the column-specific tooltip necessary? Could you please provide us the use case? Thank you.

[shamilh2o]

Hey @marek-mihok. Thanks for the response.

I wanna give brief description about the data what we have shown in a particular column to the user.
If it's not yet available I'll open a feature request.

[marek-mihok]

@shamilh2o the question is whether it makes sense from the UX perspective. This behaviour is not common - column headers in general are being used for sort/filter actions only. Could you please be more specific whether using the legend in the table tooltip or simply the self-explanatory column name is not enough?

However, if there is no other way, it should be possible to achieve:

Wdyt @mturoci?

[shamilh2o]

@marek-mihok the self-explanatory column name is not enough. The column is regarding a cost value. I need to give an idea on how the value is calculated and how often these data gonna be changed by a single sentence.

What do you mean by "the legend in the table tooltip"? How it looks like?

[mturoci]

• If you want to show a tooltip for a column name (like in the picture @marek-mihok posted above), file a feature request. That's a simple thing to do.
• If you want to have a tooltip per col cell and display the whole cell content in the tooltip, you can set https://wave.h2o.ai/docs/widgets/form/table/#with-text-overflow to tooltip.
• If you want to have a tooltip per col cell, but tooltipText != cellText, use a master-detail view pattern instead.

[shamilh2o]

Thanks @mturoci. Will create a feature request.