Arcadia Enterprise provides you with an option to add a meaningful description to chart elements; this description can be viewed when hovering the pointer over the table or chart.
The following image demonstrates how you can (or cannot) customize Descriptions on fields that define the following elements:
By default, a field's description is identical to how it is represented on a shelf of the visual.
To set a custom description, follow these steps.
When creating or editing a visual, determine which field variable requires a better description.
The shelves that support the description option correspond to the columns of a table visual, to the axes of a chart visual, and to the trellising dimensions.
Click the icon to the right of the variable.
In the dropdown, hover over Description.
From the Descriptions menu, select one of the following options:
Set enables you to specify a description in the Enter the column description modal window that appears after you make this choice.
Enter the description, and click Save.
We entered the description as follows:
Total population that matches the selected criteria.
Note the change in the description of the field, between the default and the one we just added.