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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 ...
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    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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EmilianoCretu
New Member
2 years ago

This may help. I created a button and make it transparent (transparency 100%). In the "Action" pane I selected "Web URL" but I left the URL in blank. Below there is a "Tool Tip" panel that allows you to write any text.

So, whenever you hover the button it will shows that text.