Message box

[Chapin4u]

Hi community,

I need help with adding a message box or best practice to alert the user that in the values of the visual you can hover to see the new tooltip or it has a drill through.  The report will go on a web page. So I cant explain in person to the user so that why I am asking. Thanks for any tip in advance.

[Chapin4u]

The only alternative found at the moment for a message box is this

[MariaP · Accepted solution]

You could also use bookmarks functionality to add an information image  [i] to your visual.

When a user  clicks the information image a pop up appears explaining the options available

All users are familiar with an information icon.

Add an [x] to the pop up and the user is able to  close the pop up.

Ther are many styling options also available.

Information iconUse bookmarks to open the information pop up

[Chapin4u]

Can you explain pls how to add an [x] to the pop-up window? What other styling options are,

 Thanks.

[MariaP]

HI,

This has been created with bookmarking functionality.

To run in desktop you need to press CTRL & Right Click to see functionality

In the Power BI service, bookmarks works as expected.

From the navigation area check Bookmarks Pane and Selection Pane.

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From the Home tab use the "Buttons" to add the buttons you want

Then within visuals, select the image and set your action for this. Simply a matter of Show/Hide on the Bookmarked page.

Here is the sample to assist:

SampleBookmarkFile

More details also here:

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

Hint which helps when you have multiple icons,  give your visual/image a tile to  easily find it in the 'Selection' area but 'Hide' the title in the visuals area.

By styling optins I was referring to all the options available within Power BI. You can also use your own images for this functionality.

The [x] is a trick, just the letter x styled!

[Chapin4u]

Thanks for the great idea MariaP.