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freswood
Helper I
9 years ago
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Add help tooltips to reports

Hi there,   I've created a report that contains several graphs, and I'm hoping to add some sort of help/documentation to the report. Ideally I'd like a textbox to be displayed when the user hovers ...
  • dearwatson's avatar
    dearwatson
    9 years ago

    Miguel Myers (spelling?) has a hot tip for this in his webinar on building beautiful power bi reports...

     

    basically he uses a donut chart overlaying a text box with a ? in it to create a little help widget. then he creates a table of help texts and adds it to the legend for that donut chart.  then he filters the column to only show the help he wants..

     

     

    I use this technique and it works OK but its not perfect and I'd be interested to hear if anyone has a better way to show dynamic help.

     

    one other way I have been thinking about is to use a measure with "HASONEVALUE" which shows generic" about this dashboard" then switches to "help text" when a filter is selected

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ivana_tomekova
Advocate II
3 years ago

Update from recent version of PBI:
There is already an option for Header Help tooltip for each single visual, which can be used as Text tooltip or as Tooltip page.
1. Select visual -> Format -> General
2. Under Header icons -> in Icons menu activate last icon: Help tooltip ON

 


3. In newly available Help tooltip submenu, define details (Type either Test or Report page)

 


When created, the '?' icon will appear in the visual header and when hovered over the questionmark, the tooltip is displayed: