Markus Thomanek on 19 Feb 2015 05:35:19
making persistent annotations that can be shared with others
Administrator on 22 Feb 2015 16:02:13
Hi Markus. What would you like to annotate? Where would you like these to be visible? Can you give us details of your scenario please?
- Comments (17)
RE: making annotations
I would like to be able to use the same Annotate and Share features available in the mobile app, in the online app. The same as seen here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/consumer/mobile/mobile-annotate-and-share-a-tile-from-the-mobile-apps
RE: making annotations
David has described the need well, and I agree the Tableau annotation features are a good model. The "Enlighten Data Story" custom visual (in PowerBI marketplace) provides some of the features (combining static text and measures), but the need is to have something like this embedded in other visuals and linked to data points with relative positioning.
Would you recommend starting a new thread, since the original poster didn't provide any detail?
RE: making annotations
Annotations are just as important as the charts.
Using Power BI for data storytelling without annotations is very limited currently.
I would like to annotate charts and data points. This function should support relative positioning (e.g. relative to selected data point or visual element like an axis or shape).
I would like to use static text and dax measures as well within one annotation.
Data point annotation would be useful to highlight what is important and to provide context.
I would use chart annotations for onboarding by explaining what the chart shows. I would use bookmarks to let the user hide the annotations when not needed.
It could be a report page tooltip that is always visible for a given data point (not just when hovered).
RE: making annotations
Agree, would love to see annotations and the ability to create a dialogue by users around certain data points. Ability to highlight, draw circles, specific filter criteria, etc
RE: making annotations
Annotations help viewers quickly understand main points in a chart. Here is an example of a Tableau chart with an annotation. https://public.tableau.com/profile/ccrowley#!/vizhome/Gasprices2000-2018forNewYork/Dashboard1
RE: making annotations
The ability to add annotations/narratives to visuals when certain slicer sets are selected or levels are shown on the visual as part of bookmarks or as part of user interactions would be very useful. An example would be looking at sales across the year and noting an uptick in the 3rd quarter, when you drill into the third quarter noting that the uptick was because of a new product category and this has to be stripped out to see the underlying trends. The ability to then add annotations when regions are added or drilled into to reflect which regions were impacted by internal business outages for example. Having these narratives added to bookmarks would enable more effective storytelling and would also make them easier to discover and reproduce (users tend to find something then want to go discuss it with someone so need to find it again) some method of displaying these on screen is of course critical.
RE: making annotations
Having the same functionality in power BI service & power BI mobile for windows 10 than in power BI mobile (for Android, iOS) would be great.
Weird that you currently have more functionality in the mobile apps than in the web browser or desktop app for windows 10, when it comes to taking a screenshot, making annotations and sharing.
RE: making annotations
I'm looking for the Power BI web app to have annotations similar to the mobile app.
RE: making annotations
Are there any plans to support annotations in the Power BI service? Users at one of my clients like using the Mobile app when out in the field, but we have some internal users who present back to management. Currently, they have to download a copy of the report into Power BI desktop and create text boxes for annotations. Having annotations in the service (specific to a user), would be a really powerful thing. In this case, we would not need to take multiple copies of a report and clutter up personal or group workspaces.
RE: making annotations
I have often this ask from my customers; they want to mark/circle/highlight part of a report, comment on it, kind of like "We REALLY need to look into this issue", and pass it around to other stake holders.
Something like the "Web note" of MS Edge coud do nicely, if we could link it back to Power BI.