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

116 Replies

Mason_Osepchuk
Community Member
6 months ago
+1
SelmaDorrest262
Community Member
6 months ago
Wanted to add a +1 to this feature request, but suddenly noticed I already had done so 2 years ago!
Shame it's not been implemented still 🥲
KyleKoehs
Community Member
2 years ago
Hello friends! I get this same feature request at least weekly. Please add my vote!
StephenR
Community Member
2 years ago
Hi,

+1 to this feature request. I think it'd be a great edition to the features. This thread alone has so many great ideas on how to incorporate a feature like this with multiple use cases.
LucianaPiazza
Staff
2 years ago
Hi Galina,

Thanks for reaching out! We don't have any updates to share at this time. I've added your voice to this report. We'll be sure to update this thread in the future if we have any news!

Have a wonderful weekend!
- troygreer3
  Community Member
  6 months ago
  This is so unacceptable that we still, after 7+ years, do not have this feature. Rise is becoming out of date and not useful anymore if we don't get basic needs met even after this time period.
  - TimRobinson-abd
    Community Member
    6 months ago
    I believe that their development energy has turned to helping users make Rise learning modules that are full of AI slop in hopes to boost sales rather than iterating and building on what is actually useful for clients.
GalinaPrivara-9
Community Member
2 years ago
Hi there, I'd like to know if there have been any updates for this new feature. It would be very helpful.
JasonMathes
Community Member
2 years ago
I'll add my voice to the chorus of requests for some sort of tooltip text, rollover, or lightbox functionality.

As a new user of Articulate Rise and Storyline, seeing a simple feature request like this drag on for more than 5 years across multiple threads doesn't leave me with a lot of confidence in this software.
- StevenBenassi
  Staff
  2 years ago
  Hi Jason!
  
  Welcome to authoring in Articulate 360 and the E-Learning Heroes community!
  
  I've included your feedback in the feature report and will update this discussion if it makes it onto our Feature Roadmap. In the meantime, for your reference, here's a deeper look at how we manage feature requests.
  
  Have a great day!
AmyWilliams-cd3
Community Member
2 years ago
I'm already in the list but poking again to get some Articulate attention!
- JoseTansengco
  Staff
  2 years ago
  Hello Amy,
  
  Thanks for the nudge. We're still working on this request, but we'll be sure to leave a message here when we have anything new to share.
DesignedbyLinda
Community Member
2 years ago
I'm another vote for popups or hover text for definitions.
BenjaminCurran
Community Member
3 years ago
Not much to say that hasn't already been said. It is surprising that this issue has not been resolved after 5 years.