# Perspective XYChart Tooltip

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-xychart-tooltip/64783>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80, perspective\
**Created:** [October 3, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-xychart-tooltip/64783 "2022-10-03T23:29:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![WildeKurt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@WildeKurt](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/WildeKurt)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-xychart-tooltip/64783/1 "2022-10-03T23:29:07Z")

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I'm using the Perspective XYChart and when I modify the series tooltip values, they don't seem to have any affect on what is displayed. I removed the default {name} from the tooltip text leaving only [bold]{valueY}[/] but it's still displaying the {name} value. Also, it seems to be showing the correct point value but the wrong series name. I've even tried disabling it and it still shows up.

Version is 8.1.16

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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2022, 6:11am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-xychart-tooltip/64783/2 "2022-10-04T06:11:23Z")

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You need to use the bullet tooltips. I have documented a few tips and tricks in this post:

> [@Perspective XY Chart xAxes tooltip text {dateX}](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-xy-chart-xaxes-tooltip-text-datex/53580):
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> Can anyone see why the date is not appearing in the Tooltip? Reference: [X-Value in XY Chart Bullet Tooltip - #5 by PGriffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/x-value-in-xy-chart-bullet-tooltip/29998/5)

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**Author:** ![WildeKurt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@WildeKurt](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/WildeKurt)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-xychart-tooltip/64783/3 "2022-10-04T22:42:57Z")

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They couldn't have buried that one any deeper. For the record, it's under series -\> line -\> appearance -\> bullets -\> tooltip.

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**Author:** ![Seth\_Figgers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Seth\_Figgers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Seth_Figgers)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2026, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-xychart-tooltip/64783/4 "2026-03-10T16:05:38Z")

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The XY Chart component is based off of amCharts’ XY Chart. see tooltip documentation [here](https://www.amcharts.com/docs/v4/concepts/tooltips/#Series_tooltips).

You can add other properties to the XY Chart that correspond to the amCharts XY Chart and they’ll work. In this instance, adding `tooltipText`to the root of your series seems to work for displaying series tooltips. I haven’t finished reading the amCharts documentation to see if there’s a better way, but this seems to do fine.