PowerApps Tooltip for inline help, popup help, and a time sheet app

[@tordsonander]

"I run in to that almost every single day". Well, consider this channel your support group. Love it!

[@ShanesCows]

Thanks.

[@tanaygupta891]

Absolutely fantastic series that teaches people new to the world of app design how to make intuitive products. Appreciate it Shane!!

[@theelectricsheep8204]

Thanks Shane. Tips like this can save so much time. Instead of trial and error that can just use up so many hours and often to no avail.

[@ShanesCows]

Happy to help

[@gabrielgonzaleztorres7763]

Shane, I’m extremely great full I found your channel. Your videos tutorials help me understand PowerApps. I’m making apps in my organization that I could not have done it without you. Thank you a million and hope you continue on making these amazing videos that enrich my mind with your knowledge.

[@ShanesCows]

Awesome! Glad it is helping.

[@whiteconfusion]

I know this is just one, but thank you for all the time you have spent in creating your videos, I have found them tremendously beneficial. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. I also find you comical. Which makes learning far less dull. ...nerd... Also, your wife is stunning.

[@ShanesCows]

Thank you and she says thanks also. I think she is embarrassed. ☺️

[@AngelaMalzow-r8t]

This video is great! Thanks! I ran into issues with the modern icons not showing the tooltips. The solution was to use classic icons.

[@channyeinttha1641]

Thank again Shane. Always waiting for your videos tutorials. BTW, I love your Chewy 😻

[@ShanesCows]

Chewy says he "Ruffs you too" :)

[@DomiVersaix]

Archives for the win!! Thank you!

[@ShanesCows]

Glad you like them!

[@byronbasker388]

Another great video that helped me achieve a dynamic pop up window for user quick tips on screen.

[@ShanesCows]

Awesome 👏

[@searchingyt4246]

Amazing stuff Shane, thats a great trick!

[@ShanesCows]

Glad it helped you. I use this one a lot 😀

[@jessandrews9576]

bloody love you Shane you legend! thanks for this!

[@ShanesCows]

Happy to help. Have a great day. 🐶

[@mikhailk5690]

Hi Shane, first of all, thanks a lot for your videos about PowerApps, I think this is one of the best sources for people to learn it. Could you please post another video about this particular Time Sheet solution? It will be interesting to see how to build this one

[@ShanesCows]

Yes. I want to do a whole video on this app. 😀

[@anztieo1380]

@@ShanesCows Hi Please do the Timesheet solution :):)

[@canasman11]

Always cool ideas Shane!! Keep up the awesome job!

[@ShanesCows]

Glad it helped.

[@genovjillella3602]

Hi Shane, nice video. Do you have an updated video on how to build Timesheet app and it would be nice if you had a timer option

[@Lilenization]

Is it possible to have a dynamic tooltip? For example, there will be different messages that will appear depending on where the mouse hovers on the drop down options?

[@ShanesCows]

Each control only gets one tooltip. Maybe use transparent rectangles to get what you want?

[@lordbayne7918]

Hi Shane! I am having an issue where everything works fine in preview but when I publish I see "Builtinicon:Message" in the label that is supposed to display the tooltip for the selected tooltip icon. I saw your comment saying to change the "Message" variable to "varMessge" but PoweApps underlines the variable name in red and the error reads: "Name isn't valid. This identifier isn't recognized.". Is there somehwere I am supposed to define varMessge?

[@ShanesCows]

Sorry I am slow. Yes, you need to Set(varMessage, "Chewy was here") I don't remember where in the app we do it but I did show that part.

[@bootsbax]

Hey Shane did you do the video you referenced in this one on how to build a timesheet app? I can not find it anywhere and would be very interested in watching it :)Thanks

[@ShanesCows]

I still haven’t finished that video. Man I stink. 😀

[@bootsbax]

@@ShanesCows Can i send you a bribe of chocolate?

[@c.mdsalih]

Thank you, It was helpful.

[@IAmAmazed10]

Shane, thanks - great video. I implemented the solution and it worked great on two screens, but on two others where I have set the "Text" field of the pop-up label to the variable 'Message', Power Apps seems to always display this as "Builtinicon:Message" instead of the variable content, even once it is set. If I delete 'Message' from the "Text" field and re-add it, the functionality works fine until I close/publish the app and then it reverts back to showing "Builtinicon:Message" -- am I missing something obvious? I can't figure out why this is occurring.

[@ShanesCows]

Try changing your variable name to varMessage to avoid the confusion?

[@TheAllabasha]

@@ShanesCows I have been facing Same issue and have tried using other variables as well when I refresh its come up with Builtinicon:Message not sure Why it is happening. I request you to provide your inputs on the same.

[@bradmiller2945]

Hi Shane, First, nice video! I definitely recommend this solution for tooltips. Question for you. This solution for tooltips handles mouse-centric people. However, for the Keyboard-centric, they can still access the fields behind the greyed-out rectangle by tabbing (I was a little surprised at first but then realized I was only covering the screen with the grey-out rectangle). I was curious what you do for tabbing friendly people??? (I hope you don't say change the DisplayMode of every tabable control to account for the tooltip when it is set to display...)

[@anztieo1380]

Hello. Please can you release a detailed guide on creating the Timesheet app or have any expected dates when this video would be release? Thanks :)

[@ShanesCows]

Soon I hope. Soon. Sorry for the delay.

[@anztieo1380]

@@ShanesCows Thank you. Really looking forward to it and hope to utilise it soon!!

[@olekkelo2989]

@@ShanesCows Awesome tutorials. Thank you for sharing your expertise. Looking forward to watch your vids on Timesheet project based apps.

[@anztieo1380]

Any update :)?

[@guruprasadmarathe]

Hello Shane, i have a items in a list and decription for each item. Want to show that as check box with muliti select also on hover show their decription text for reach text box. Any workaround?

[@ShanesCows]

Use a gallery to display each record and put a checkbox in there. This video should help kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zqm9ZZmDf8d_rM0

[@guruprasadmarathe]

Shane Young thank you...

[@endgamexpert]

Shane, I am looking for a video that shows how to display rich text in a "checklist" app where the instructions will occasionally change, and so there is a need to emphasize (with bold, italics, underline for example) to draw the users' attention to the changes. The documentation for the Rich Text Editor (in the help documentation) is difficult to understand. Can you help?

[@ShanesCows]

Tim what challenges are you having? Might be easier to use the html text control so you can just reference html?

[@SomeGuy-rm7cr]

Is there any way to customize the tooltip text (for example bigger text and/or color)?

[@ShanesCows]

That is a great question. Not that I have found but would be a nice feature to suggest.

[@danielbell9192]

Hi Shane, when will you be releasing the timesheet app or doing a video on it, something that we are looking at building next so I’m looking for ideas!

[@ShanesCows]

It is so close. We build a lot of them for customers so it keeps me from getting this one done.

[@danielbell9192]

Shane Young ok. Looking forward too it! 😀

[@mustafahussainmohsin320]

@@ShanesCows Hey, have you created the timesheet app video? if yes kindly share the video link. Thanks

[@aniking145]

Nice one..but I still wonder on how the background of the app is. You know what I mean. Is it SP lost list? And what are the other columns and how are we maintaining the data..

[@keanuangeles]

Hi Shane, I'm developing a timekeeping system app and I'm having a problem getting/computing the duration. For example, the first submit of a button it'll patch the project along with the date/time, now on a second pressed of button should compute the duration on how long the activity takes. Hope you can help me. Thanks in advance.

[@ShanesCows]

You need to subtract the value you first patched from the current time. Probably should use Patch to make it easier.

[@keanuangeles]

Thanks, Shane.

[@keanuangeles]

@@ShanesCows Hi Shane, it's me again. I have managed to get the time(hh:mm:ss). However, I can't get the minutes right when it's over one hour. It's always returning "00". Here's my code: Text(RoundDown(DateDiff(CurrentTime,InitialTime,Seconds)/3600,0),"00")&":"& Text(If(RoundDown(DateDiff(CurrentTime,InitialTime,Seconds)/60,0)>59,0,RoundDown(DateDiff(CurrentTime,InitialTime,Seconds)/60,0)),"00")&":"& Text(Mod(DateDiff(CurrentTime,InitialTime,Seconds),60),"00") Thanks in advance.

[@rajasekarm9543]

Hi Shane Is there any way we can change the hover text based on a drop down like when I change the drop down and hover on a text box it should show me x, when I change the value in drop down it should change the hover text as y

[@ShanesCows]

Sure you can put an If for the text

[@rajasekarm9543]

@@ShanesCows Hi Shane, is it possible to create a session for each request in Power apps. It's like I have created a customized form in Power apps and once it is submitted I don't have a session to get back to the same form again. Could you please let me know if it is possible

[@eyoaelchane6077]

Love it Shane!

[@ShanesCows]

THANKS!

[@davidjimenez8952]

SuperShane! 👌

[@heatherfeather2621]

Missing tooltips showing column descriptions for lists....gr. Can you do the same thing but automate pulling the text from the column description?

[@ShanesCows]

Not that I have found. Never been able to get the column description connected in. :(

[@timdoty2000]

My popups only work in Edit form mode not in display mode. How can I make it work in both. Thanks by the way, all your video have helped me make a cool app for my job!

[@ShanesCows]

Buttons don’t trigger in view mode. 😔

[@kwilliams1130]

@@ShanesCows Love this and it's works great, except my Popups show in View Mode, I then have to click Edit All I then can X. I want them to be closed in View Mode and then I click the icon to pop them up.

[@aatishchaudhary4195]

Can we show the html text box content using tooltip. Could you please help witht he formula to put into tooltip =

[@anztieo1380]

Hello Shane. Any chance of an update on the Timesheet app :)

[@ShanesCows]

I need to do the video. I do, I do. Soonish

[@anztieo1380]

@@ShanesCows Any Update :')

[@hitasajil3869]

As always great BUT Time sheet some imp thing i did not see: A) Cumulative Time (%) a) Total Monthly Working hours b) Total Monthly Non Working Hours i )Total Monthly Leave ii) Total Monthly Vacation iii) Total Monthly Holidays. - Supervisor approval / rejection after completion of time sheet (monthly). - Month View (with add/edit features) It would be good if such features is there too..

[@ShanesCows]

A lot of that data is better done with Power BI. Though one of my customers I do roll up all of that data in PowerApps. It is possible.

[@darkmar3475]

Hello Mr. Shane. I'm deaf so I can't hear. I hope you can open the sql database for me to see ok? Hope you help me. Thank you

[@ShanesCows]

Sorry, I don't follow what you are asking for.

[@sreejishnushylajan6536]

Thanks, please upload a video for attendance app in powerapps

[@ShanesCows]

You aren't the first person to ask for that. I will see what I can do.

[@sreejishnushylajan6536]

@@ShanesCows thanks