Rise - adding popup text box

+1 (again, 10 months ago) on this feature. This thread is a great example of something that has been on my mind.

Full disclosure: I apologize in advance for the outlook on my long comment. I hope it is perceived with positive intention.

As a fellow customer, with a deep appreciation for the Articulate platform of products and its active community of users... I'm a little disappointed that a community request such as this from two years ago (with incredible traction of interest, comments, and even a temporary workaround provided by a community member/existing customer) has not elevated the priority for this feature to be implemented by Articulate's development team.

Meanwhile, there are other requested features shared within the community forum that also seems to be ignored. For an active community of users, willing to be transparent and vulnerable about their product interests, a "Thanks, we'll keep this in mind." or "We'll keep you posted." or "Check the What's New webpage for future releases." time and time again from post moderators or community admins becomes cliche. These replies have simply become "We see your comment".

I believe that if users are going as far as to build "workarounds" for each other, 1. that's an incredible reflection of the community Articulate has helped establish, and, I am so very fortunate to be supported by such fellow users, and 2. the community moderators or admins should be equally as transparent in revealing the priorities of the Articulate development team.

I do understand there is a timeline of "What's New": https://articulate.com/360/whats-new. However, these are new features already chosen to be released and marketed.

Side note: Personally, expressing displeasure without an effort to provide a solution is simply complaining. Complaining is not my goal. I'd like to offer a few suggestions as to potential solutions to my aforementioned pain points:

1. Offer the Articulate community of registered users/current customers a transparent voting platform for the most requested features... perhaps per product, such as Rise. (Milanote has a great poll example: https://milanote.com/poll)
2. Provide extended insight on the polling platform as to how the Articulate development team prioritizes its feature requests. Articulate users should be aware that any company has finite resources–in time, talent and treasure (operating expenses). Any great SAAS company works to enhance its value to new and existing customers (value propositions) while carefully ensuring there are no sacrifices made to the current user base or the functionality of its established products. Features do take time and resources to build, test/measure and adopt.

Everyone's comments on this thread are so incredibly valuable. And I find that there are so many other great feature requests in other posts that deserve organized attention and transparent response. Wouldn't it be great to see them in aggregate as a community? An upvoting system derived from specific forum threads (e.g. for each Articulate product) may be the answer. Whether it's voicing support, hesitation, or assisting others with a workaround, I hope that we can continue to come together as a community to improve how we can collaborate with Articulate and its amazing product offerings.

I look forward to reading anyone's additional comments!

I'd like to chime in with a request for this. Currently, I make text appear as if it is a link but then include a Note block nearby and highlight the term. The problem is that it is abrupt and disturbs the flow of the content. It would be ideal to have a rollover pop up that appears only when the user hovers over marked text. (Pls see attachment)

Yes, and I have used it for other things. The issue I am having is I have terms in my content (text blocks) that we want to add definitions to; so if someone doesn't know what the term means while they are taking the training, they can hover over or click on the word and get the definition. 

An interim solution, provided you don't have pages and pages of text to work through, is to use Storyline to build up your pop-up definitions and then use Storyline blocks in your Rise course.

Here is an example with SL file attached. Each selected word has a filled rectangle over the top of it, set to maximum transparency and a new layer with the definition and a yellow underline for the word appears when the user hovers over the associated rectangle.

I am a long term user of Storyline, but trying to work with Rise and I'm surprised there doesn't seem to be any functionality for pop up text boxes. Especially seeing there's been an ongoing list of requests for it for 5+ years! Is there any news that it's on the horizon?

We need this soooooo badly!!!!! People have been asking for it for a long time!!  Please Articulate, hear our cries!

We really need popup text boxes!! 

I have to say that while I love the ease of use for Rise, I have never worked on a platform that has changed so little over the course of multiple years and seems to have so few enhancements planned on the feature roadmap despite request after request for the same basic features. It's kind of disappointing but we work with what we're given ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Adding another +1 for this feature or an HTML editor that will allow it.

I'm very interested in Rise implementing Modal Window content within the document window.  This is web-design speak for the Lightbox functionality that people have asked to be brought over from Storyline. 

I won't get into the functional oversight I believe that this and the lack of tool-tip text introduces into client experience and expectations, but I am quite confident that this is a hard requirement from nearly all of my clients who would consider Rise.  Workarounds are fun to hash out, but to the client they are obviously kludgy solutions to an otherwise straight forward tool.  

Modal content has to be in the dev list for this product to make it viable. 

I'll give you a great case study for this: rapid-conversion of legacy content. There's going to be a lot of modal-type interactivity in-line text, that can't be shoehorned into another block type. 

Thanks for reading, hope it helps further this topic along. 

We could really use this option for the definition of terms within a regular paragraph. The work-around solutions do not work at all for us. 

We've been using Rise for over a year now and I don't believe there have been any updates. Is this product still being updated?