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Visual that shows comment/note when hover over it

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JBester on 02 Mar 2016 19:00:28

Add comment or note related to a visual or for entire page. Text only shows when you hover over the icon.

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4133d0ca 65e2-4fa9-acb1-a84675ba8aa9 on 05 Jul 2020 22:33:09

RE: Visual that shows comment/note when hover over it

You can create a measure to return a data or string value, for example:

= FIRSTNONBLANK([],TRUE)

(to use FIRSTNONBLANK in DirectQuery mode, you'll need to enable the PowerBI global option to "Allow unrestricted measures in DirectQuery mode")

Add the new measure to your tooltip.

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1c106475 5cd2-45d7-b329-c57ba2b9f5dd on 05 Jul 2020 22:32:20

RE: Visual that shows comment/note when hover over it

It would be a great improvement ! And please add the possibility to include Web links and file links inside the note

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cddbc733 90ad-4f11-a324-fe4f6f243abc on 05 Jul 2020 22:26:21

RE: Visual that shows comment/note when hover over it

It has my vote. The current text box takes up room and you also can't adjust the line height which means two lines of 8 font text still takes up a lot of room. I'd love to be able to just add an icon of an 'i' so that when they hover over it some text pops up that adds extra details. The current size of the canvas is so small to begin with to space is precious.

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534b4794 e3ed-4cb5-8ee9-18f12d33d93a on 05 Jul 2020 22:24:53

RE: Visual that shows comment/note when hover over it

You can do that now with measures + custom tooltips https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-may-update-feature-summary/

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56198f11 658b-44a8-9d2a-0472f7da3c28 on 05 Jul 2020 22:24:32

RE: Visual that shows comment/note when hover over it

This is absolutely necessary, and would make it so we wouldn't have to add another page to the report (or use up a ton of the report canvas) with notes and source links (such as the second page of the example report at https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/visual-awesomeness-unlocked-pulse-chart/)

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8886f927 2f69-4f33-b5ca-448cd2dfc40d on 05 Jul 2020 22:21:36

RE: Visual that shows comment/note when hover over it

Agree! Sometime there is need to educate report users. Adding a textbook will do, but eat up space.