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Pbiuserr
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Long informative tooltip

ello,

I'd like to create some info tooltip for users, so when they hover mouse on the object, they'll get the info.

For now what I've come up with is that if I create a shape, remove fill, outline etc I can activate an bookmark - None and give it a tooltip. Fine, however I think that I can't put spaces there and my characters are limited? I need this one to be pretty long as it will describe the dashboard

 

Any ideas how to do that? I think it has been done before

Thank you in advance

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amitchandak
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@Pbiuserr , You can try tooltip page, if that can help

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-tooltips

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amitchandak
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@Pbiuserr , You can try tooltip page, if that can help

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-tooltips

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Tahreem24
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@Pbiuserr  Yuu can take Text box on tooltip and it will also add scroll to that text box for longer text.

 

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@Tahreem24 Can you specify it more deeply?

I created a question mark on my background layout, want to hover on it and see the text. Is there any solution for that? I though of empty table with tooltip on page but doesnt work for me

@Pbiuserr , You need to create a tooltip page and one text box and enter the info as per your need. Then enable this tooltip page on main page's "?" sign. So whenever you hover on that question mark "?" it will display the text box info.

 

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