Beacon tooltips
Single hints attached to an element. Show them on a pulsing dot, on hover, or on click.
A beacon tooltip explains one element without taking the user through a whole tour: a new button, a setting people miss, a column that needs a word of context.
Add a tooltip
- Open the editor on your site: click Edit on any tour, or New Tour, in the dashboard.
- In the editor panel, open Tooltips.
- Click the element to attach a tooltip to, then write its title and text.
A tooltip belongs to the page it was created on. A tooltip with no page set (possible through the API) shows on every page where its element exists.
Trigger
| Trigger | The tooltip shows… |
|---|---|
beacon (default) | as a pulsing dot next to the element; the user clicks the dot to open it |
hover | when the user hovers the element |
click | when the user clicks the element |
Delivery
| Delivery | Shown… |
|---|---|
always (default) | every time |
first_time | until the user has seen it once |
session | once per browser session |
Drafts
A tooltip that's switched off is a draft: it's saved but visitors don't see it. Tooltips created by a coding agent start as drafts unless the agent is allowed to publish. See Drafts and publishing.