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karaoan
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Kudo Commander

Handling Comments: Text not shown in full

We found a work around for handling dynamic commments in PBI but it has some with limitations:

Create a data entry table using "Enter Data" add the column "comment" to contain your comments and additional columns for the details by which you want to filter e.g. date: 

 

 

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Link other fields to the relevant tables e.g. date to date table. And then just drag the comments field to the canvas:

 

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The big issue at the moment is the display of a text field: text is not displayed in full, there is no visual which allows wrapping as shown in the above screen shot.

 

Does any one know a work around to display the full text wrapped and not cut off?

 

Martin

www.managility.com.au

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konstantinos
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 Nice...This is a really cool idea...

 

Unfortunately you there is no way of wrapping text in card..Just a thought / workaround :

Since you enter values manually add a comma in text in place that the text fit the screen and then split the column by  delimiter place 2 or 3 cards each other below. Not optimal but just a thought.

A better solution is to find i.e. the 5th ( again depending the space on your dashboard ) space and split on that but needs more advanced M and a bit of time to figure this out if is even possible.. @ImkeF will probably know a way..

Konstantinos Ioannou

thanks @konstantinos

Left it as a task for the weekend to create a function that chunks up your text into pieces with maximal length witout cutting the words. You could then place it in a simple table, each row nicely under each other. But Twitter came to the rescue 🙂

https://twitter.com/AdolfoSocorro/status/703336928515592193

 

So they've added "Long Text Viewer" to the standard visuals in the new PBI version 31!

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