Is there a feature in Rise to add a popup text box? I would like the ability to click on text to provide further information to users. Does Rise have that capability?

+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: 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) 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?

Rise - adding popup text box | Articulate

SandraWhitford
Community Member
7 years ago
I would like to be able to add pop up boxes for text definitions as well. Add me to the growing list of supporters on this enhancement! Thanks Gail, for bringing this up. Its been a frustration of mine for a while.
CelesteBramlett
Community Member
7 years ago
Adarsh, I believe your option will work for me. I am fairly new to Rise. Can you provide directions on how to get the pop over effect?
- AdarshChar
  Community Member
  7 years ago
  Celeste, I'm sorry I think I may have been unclear. I was posting an example of what I would like to see in Rise. The image I posted was from an existing site that included popover text that I was hoping could be replicated in Rise. I don't currently have a solution for popovers in Rise.
  
  Currently, I change the text color and underline it and then add a Note block near the highlighted text.
  - SallyDiab-ee7ac
    Community Member
    6 years ago
    hi there, what do you mean by a note block?
AnnaONeal-ccb91
Community Member
7 years ago
Yes, I would love to see this feature as well! When I need to define a term, sometimes I have to break up the flow of the text, and this is definitely a distraction for the user.
DavidTait
Super Hero
7 years ago
For glossary terms I currently highlight the word, usually bold and a different colour to the body text. I then add an accordion at the bottom of the screen to contain the definition(s).

I would find a lot of use for a popup, definitely +1 on this request from me.
MartikaCox
Former Staff
7 years ago
Hi all,

Thanks for sharing your +1s! If we add this to our new feature roadmap in the future, we'll definitely let you know.
MoniqueDouglas
Community Member
6 years ago
I am following this thread in case a new feature is added to Rise that can do this. Thanks!
GailChambers-fd
Community Member
6 years ago
Nice work-around!! Thank you for sharing!!
KarlMuller
Community Member
6 years ago
Adarsh said in a previous post: "touch a word and select "Look Up" to view a definition without leaving the page."

This is really the key to the solution for us. We deal with a lot of legal terms, and it is essential to provide definitions of terms in context without leaving the page.
IsaiahAdona-17a
Community Member
6 years ago
+1 for the need... I hope this feature can be added soon.
MartinButts-45f
Community Member
6 years ago
I too would really benefit from a simple pop-up on roll-over function. My courses have occasional terminology that needs explaining. The workarounds take the ease out of reading them.