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How can I create custom tooltips for each data point in a graph?

I have a stacked bar graph where I want to show the proportion of projects for which our qualitative analyst needs to complete the thematic coding process. However, the visitors to the webpage won’t necessarily know the context, but will just want some details in tooltips. I have two categories: (1) Total projects and (2) Coded projects. In a new line for the Total projects tooltips under “Remaining Projects: 170” I want “Description: The remainder of projects that have not yet been qualitatively coded.” Similarly for “Coded Projects: 70” I want a new line to show “Description: The number of projects that have been qualitatively coded.”

The last working version of my stacked bar graph is here: https://codepen.io/tenebris_silentio/pen/ZEWzXyr

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        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <title>Portfolio Review Overview</title>
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     <div class="container">
         <div class="row my-3">
                <div class="col">
                  <p class="sansserif"><br>
                </div>
            </div>

                <div class="col-md-6 py-1">
                    <div class="card" style="width: 36rem;">
                        <div class="card-body">
                            <canvas id="chBar"></canvas>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>

    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/2.5.0/Chart.js"></script>

    <script>

    // chart colors
    var colors = ['#007bff','#28a745','#333333','#c3e6cb','#dc3545','#6c757d'];

    /* bar chart */
    var ctx = document.getElementById('chBar');

var myChart = new Chart(ctx, {
  type: 'bar',
  data: {
    labels: ['Proportion of Coded Projects'],
    datasets: [
      {
        label: ['Coded Projects'],
        data: [70],
        info: [
        ['This refers to projects that have not been qualitatively coded using the TDF.'],
        backgroundColor: '#D6E9C6',
      }],
      {
        label: 'Remaining Projects',
        data: [170],
        backgroundColor: colors.slice(0,1),
        info: [
        ['This refers to total number of projects left to code.'],
      },
    ]
  },

  options: {
    tooltips: {
      callbacks: {
        title: (tooltipItems, data) => data.labels[tooltipItems[0].index],
        label: (tooltipItems, data) => 'Count: ' + data.datasets[0].data[tooltipItems.index],
        footer: (tooltipItems, data) => ['', 'Description:'].concat(data.datasets[0].info[tooltipItems[0].index])
      }
    }
    scales: {
      xAxes: [{ stacked: true }],
      yAxes: [{ stacked: true }]
    }
  }
});


    </script>

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Answer

Your tooltips.callbacks should look as follows:

tooltips: {
  callbacks: {
    title: (tooltipItems, data) => data.labels[tooltipItems[0].index],
    label: (tooltipItems, data) => data.datasets[tooltipItems.datasetIndex].label + ' ' + data.datasets[tooltipItems.datasetIndex].data[tooltipItems.index],
    footer: (tooltipItems, data) => ['', 'Description:'].concat(data.datasets[tooltipItems[0].datasetIndex].info)
  }
}

Please have a look at your amended code below:

var colors = ['#007bff', '#28a745', '#333333', '#c3e6cb', '#dc3545', '#6c757d'];

var ctx = document.getElementById('chBar');
new Chart(ctx, {
  type: 'bar',
  data: {
    labels: ['Proportion of Coded Projects'],
    datasets: [{
        label: 'Coded Projects',
        data: [70],
        backgroundColor: '#D6E9C6',
        info: [
          ['This refers to projects that have not'],
          ['been qualitatively coded using the TDF.']
        ]
      },
      {
        label: 'Remaining Projects',
        data: [170],
        backgroundColor: colors.slice(0, 1),
        info: [
          ['This refers to total number'],
          ['of projects left to code.']
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  options: {
    tooltips: {
      callbacks: {
        title: (tooltipItems, data) => data.labels[tooltipItems[0].index],
        label: (tooltipItems, data) => data.datasets[tooltipItems.datasetIndex].label + ' ' + data.datasets[tooltipItems.datasetIndex].data[tooltipItems.index],
        footer: (tooltipItems, data) => ['', 'Description:'].concat(data.datasets[tooltipItems[0].datasetIndex].info)
      }
    },
    scales: {
      xAxes: [{
        stacked: true
      }],
      yAxes: [{
        stacked: true
      }]
    }
  }
});
canvas {
  max-width: 400px;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/2.9.3/Chart.min.js"></script>
<canvas id="chBar"></canvas>
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