Request for legend title and group name on tooltips

[nagmak]

Summary

Stacked Bar chart and Grouped Line chart tooltips are not clear, we are requesting an additional legend title value that can appear on the chart next to the legend and also appears on the tooltips.

Justification

We are showing a lot of different kinds of data to the users, and this makes it very confusing if they don't have a clear description of the groups they're looking at. For example: We want the user to be able to tell directly from the legend and the tooltips that they're looking at Server IPs vs Client IPs.

Desired UX and success metrics

User is able to look at the stacked bar chart or grouped line chart and immediately know which group they are working with by seeing the legend title on the chart itself. Also, on hovering on the chart, they should see the correct group name (same as the legend value) on the tooltip to indicate the same.

"Must have" functionality

• Legend name next to the legend values
• Tooltip should contain the name of the group on hover

Specific timeline issues / requests

Do you want this work within a specific time period? Is it related to an
upcoming release? Ideally for our next release for Data Security - Insights UI

NB: The Carbon team will try to work with your timeline, but it's not
guaranteed. The earlier you make a request in advance of a desired delivery
date, the better!

More info

Hovering above any bar in the middle brings a tool tip with X-axes name and value, and a list of group values with count. This tooltip table is not very intuitive - the first row has a name of the X-axis, whilst other rows do not explain what group values are being referred to. It simply says 'Group', we want to be able to customize that for readability.

Here's a link to the sandbox: https://codesandbox.io/s/small-water-koihi?file=/src/index.js

[theiliad]

Hi, this is all already available, you just need to add axis titles https://codesandbox.io/s/condescending-morse-h0z4b

[nagmak]

Hey @theiliad actually I wasn't referring to the axes title, we already do have that in place. I'm referring to the legend itself, it currently does not have a title option there.

[theiliad]

Could you pls explain further what it is that you're looking to achieve?

[nagmak]

@theiliad Hey! We are already using axes titles - 'Count' for y-axis and in this example 'DB User' for the x-axis. We also want to show the user the title of the group dataset in a stacked bar chart - this is the 'Server IP' values that appear on the legend. So we need a separate title for legend to indicate what these numbers mean.

[theiliad]

Probably will be addressed in #1013

[theiliad]

Unfortunately not much demand around this feature, and I haven't seen anybody putting together any specs. Will close for now

[philmas]

That is unfortunate. Would be keen to have this feature.