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?

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KennetFagerstra
Community Member
4 years ago
+1 from us as well. Articulate, it's been 4 years since this feature was requested. Is there any recent news regarding when/if it'll be implemented?
TimRobinson-540
Community Member
4 years ago
Really looking forward to this feature. It would be great to be able to link to new vocabulary terms within a regular paragraph for those who are thinking, "What does that word mean again?" With a popup, they wouldn't have to navigate away from the stream of learning.

Similarly, it would also be great to have some sort of formal glossary system as well, but that's a separate idea.
- GerryMcAteer-86
  Community Member
  4 years ago
  I agree it would be very helpful to have the ability to link and have a popup and also have a built- in glossary block. As a work around for the glossary, here are a couple of methods I have used. cheers Gerry view
MaireSmith-d35a
Community Member
4 years ago
This is definitely something we need at my work.
HelenJohnston-9
Community Member
4 years ago
I am asked for this by clients time and time again
RobHutchings-fe
Community Member
4 years ago
+1 from me too - something our clients are requesting more and more.
RebeccaK_OH
Community Member
4 years ago
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.
- hkanstrm
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  +1 on your statement.
TimRobinson-540
Community Member
4 years ago
Julie Dirksen, in her wildly popular "Design for how people learn" suggests using a feature like this. See image.
XavierToyos
Community Member
3 years ago
We need this functionality for RISE360. We have many texts with footnotes that currently cannot be implemented.
PatrickRyan1
Community Member
3 years ago
Rise Staff, please give us an update on adding a pop up feature to text in in Rise. Also, please post the steps and the link to how we officially request this new feature from Articulate.
- Crystal-Horn
  Staff
  3 years ago
  Hi there, Patrick. We don't have plans in the near term to add a pop-up/tooltip feature for text in Rise 360. For now, you'll want to use a workaround like the ones listed above.
  
  You're doing the right thing for feature requests -- We take into consideration all the activity in our E-Learning Heroes product forums around a particular request and use it to help prioritize additions to our roadmap. We'll update each discussion if we release a feature that will help!
PatrickRyan1
Community Member
3 years ago
Hullo? Could someone from Articulate please respond?

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