Wondering if there's a way to make a text bubble show up when the user hovers over a metric in a Power BI report.
I have tried using alt text, but that does not show up anywhere.
I had the same problem just now, and the documentation page Create tooltips based on report pages in Power BI Desktop describes how to do this. Probably this functionality was not around in March 2018 (when the accepted answer was posted).
Steps
In summary the steps are as follows (assuming you already have a visualization):
Create a new page, name it Tooltip 1
On the Tooltip 1 page, go to Format → Page Information and switch on the Tooltip toggle
Go to Canvas settings and set the Type to Tooltip.
Create a text box via Home → Text box, fill it with the text you want to show when one hovers over your visualization.
Select your visualization
Click on Format → Tooltip
Set Type to Report page
Set Page to Tooltip 1
Now when you hover over the visualization, the text box from step 4 will be shown.
Additions
You can mark the page Tooltip 1 as hidden, such that it does not show up as a tab on your report.
You can also customize the tooltip size by setting the Page size of the tooltip page to Custom with suitable width and height values.
As described in the link, instead of text you can also create a whole visualization.
Currently, I don't think this is possible natively.
There are some ideas related to this that you can vote for:
Custom Alt Text (tooltip) On Hover Over Any Visual
Tooltip for Matrix visual (and others)
Tooltips for Tables
There is also a Dynamic Tooltip custom visual that you might be close enough to what you are looking for.
You can use a transparent shape as an overlay on the text you want the hover over test to appear on
Turn Action On
Type Page Navigation
Destination None
Tooltip - Add the test you want to display on the hover
Related
When I hover over a column in my report, it displays the column's name, as shown in the screenshot attached. I want to see the column description when I hover over the column; how can I do it?
This isn't possible at the moment. There are hacks where you place a button over each column header with a tooltip but then you lose sort functionality and if the columns are resized, there is a problem. My suggestion is you have a little help icon with a hover tooltip next to your visual which you link to a report page. Then you can list out all the support info you need and even provide a diagram if you want.
Is there a Tab Control control in Power Bi that can be dropped onto a dashboard similar to other controls, like checkbox, list, etc. I would like the user to be able to add various inputs on each tab and then be able to plot a line on a chart based on their selections. Each tab on the Tab control would represent a separate product. An image of a tab control can be found at the link below.
Not sure if Power BI has something like that out of the box, but you could roll your own.
It looks like you want a bunch of slicers that are overlapping and come to the top when their "tab" is clicked. You can achieve this by showing/hiding slicers when a button is clicked. Conceptually:
add slicers to the report and arrange to overlap
add buttons to the report and arrange side by side
add bookmarks to the page that show the different hidden/visible states of the slicers
assign the bookmarks to the buttons
Matt Allington has a blog post about this technique. He uses just one slicer panel, so you will need to adjust it to your needs but it has everything you need to do what you describe.
Simple task but not able to figure out the way.
In Power Bi Report , I have 3 different data tables contains service data. On report we have 3 cards and a table. all the cards display average availability of the service.
the requirement is, on click of the card, I should display the rest of table data in below table control.
thanks in advance for the help.
First save a Bookmark for how you want your table data to appear.
Add a Shape / Rectangle and position it on top of a Card. Set it's Line Color / Weight to 0pts and turn off the Fill. Turn on it's Action and set the Action / Type = Bookmark and choose your new Bookmark (ref above).
Repeat for each Card.
In the latest version of PowerBI Desktop you can add "Bookmark Buttons" and tie their actions to bookmarks.
Filter the table and add a bookmark using the "Bookmark Pane" found
in the View menu.
Create a bookmark button and position it where you want it over the Card.
Resize the button to fit the icon (unless you want a title for that button).
Edit the button's action in the "Visualization Pane" to apply the bookmark you want.
Note in the picture below, the Missing Creative Types bookmark button was selected and the filter was applied to show the 3 rows with the missing data.
Bookmark illustrations
Is there a way to include a collapsible text in a Power BI report?
The purpose would be to add text into the report (essentially explanations for the user on the data and the methodology), but without the text being allways present and taking real state. Right now I elaborate separate documentation on the reports but it could be more effective to be able to have the text appear right when the user needs documentation in the report.
I would add the text as either a Multi-Row Card, Table or Long Text Viewer (Custom Visual).
Then I would reduce the frame size of that object to show just the first line of text. Users can click the Focus Mode button to expand the visual to a full screen view.
That text might event say "Click the Focus Mode button (top right) to expand ...".
I am new to AX2012 and need to add product names to the InventoryValueReport in ax2012. I am trying to use a checkbox on the setup form but I'm just not sure at how to code the method to display the names on the report when the box is checked. Can anyone assist me?
If the ssrs report layout will support it you can set the visibility of a column based on an expression based on the added parameter.
Steps:
( How do I set the visibility of a text box in SSRS using an expression? )
In this example, the report has a dataset named Items and has textbox to show row counts. It also has another textbox which will be visible only if the dataset Items has rows.
Right-click on the textbox that should be visible/hidden based on an expression and select Text Box Properties.... Refer screenshot #1.
On the Text Box Properties dialog, click on Visibility from the left section. Refer screenshot #2.
Select Show or hide based on an epxression.
Click on the expression button fx.