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how can I make the size of a tooltip dynamic?

I have a sheet in which there are several visual table objects that include a single column with values of people's names. I have created a tooltip that is based on a table that occupies the entire canvas and with the columns names and comment, where qualitative comments are written about each name.

The idea is that in the powerbi sheet where only the names appear, when the cursor passes over one of them, the tooltip is shown with the commentary associated to that name (I have already done that).

I have 2 problems:
Problem 1: I want the size of the tooltip to be dynamic and to adjust to the size of the comment cell in the tooltip table, as there are comments that are longer than others and I want the size of the tooltip to be adapted to what the comment needs.
Problem 2: there is the possibility of scrolling the tooltip? because I have comments that are a continuous line of text, causing information to be lost because the margins of the tooltip cut the sentence and it is halfway (as seen in the image), how could I adapt the object so that instead of the rest of the sentence disappearing from the margin, it is divided into several lines of text and I do not lose information.

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and now I have another doubt, if in the tooltip there is a larger column whose values are hyperlinks that redirect to a web, is it possible to click on them to access that content? because when I move the cursor to click on the link, the tooltip disappears (as I no longer have the cursor on the associated name).

Hi @alejandroRodri 

The purpose of tooltip is to show the data (static) when you hover on it you see some data on tooltip.  there is no way you can interact with tooltip data. 
Tooltip does not allow you to click on it to scroll down to copy and paste data.  No it does not support all these features.

 

I hope you understood the purpose of the PBI tooltip.

 

I hope I answered your question!

 

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and could you set the size of the tooltip canvas and adapt the font size of the text displayed according to the number of different comments? so that there is not too much space for names with few comments or too little space for names with many comments?

Uzi2019
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Hi @alejandroRodri 

 

You have to enable this feature under option and setting inside the file menu

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Problem1:  No the size of tooltip can not be dynamic it is fixed size. you can vote for it
Problem2: Unfortunetly No. there is no such scrolling available on tooltip. once you take your cursor on tooltip it does not allow you to scroll even though you can see the scrolling.

 

Vote here for dynamic tooltip
https://ideas.fabric.microsoft.com/ideas/search-ideas/?q=tooltip%20?currentSelected=

 

I hope I answered your question!

 



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