How to point (not select) a certain datum?

Description

Even if selection.enabled: false, data can be pointed like the below:

Is there any way to point(not select) a certain datum with billboard.js API?

[netil]

@softage0, IMO you misunderstood the meaning of “selection”.

The normal interaction behaves as:

• For mouse supported environment: When users mouseover on data point, it will expand data point & show tooltip
• For touch supported environment: When users touch on data point, it will expand data point & show tooltip.

If you want to make to not interact based on users’ event, you can use interaction.enabled=false option, but in that case will not be able to make data points to expand nor tooltip show, because they’re enabled when interaction.enable=true case.

One possible workaround on this is,

• Set chart element to not receive users’ event by setting

.bb-event-rects {
    pointer-events: none;
}

• And use .tooltip.show() API to show tooltip

// it will show tooltip & expand data point where x Axis value is '2020-01-15'
chart.tooltip.show({x: new Date("2020-01-15 00:00:00")});

Try calling .tooltip.show from the console from the below example

• https://codesandbox.io/s/hopeful-leftpad-2hzhh

[softage0]

Oh, I didn’t know it works a different way depends on environments. I used it in the mobile-emulated environment so I didn’t know it works that way.

Thanks for your advice and I solved the issue with .tooltip.show() API.