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Ronny Hagen on 25 Apr 2016 18:41:29

I would like to group visuals, textboxes and shapes to create custom features and presentations in the reports.

Administrator on 04 Dec 2019 05:33:34

This is now available in Power BI Desktop. Learn more here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-august-2019-feature-summary/#grouping

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Jonas on 05 Jul 2020 23:01:15

RE: group objects

'+1.
It would be really helpful if one could create groups of items, and be able to select all these items in one click from a layer list in the left pane. In addition this would make it much easier to control foreground or background placement of multiple items.

-A bit similar to how Photoshop uses layes.

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John Hagelin on 05 Jul 2020 23:01:14

RE: group objects

'+1.
Agree with Jonas below.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:00:00

RE: group objects

Any proved solution for the Drag to select? we have a hot requirement to selecting a group of objects and add populate the details in other visual.

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William Crayger on 05 Jul 2020 22:53:19

RE: group objects

In addition to lasso selection, it would be extremely helpful to have the ability to move multiple objects via keyboard functions rather than dragging with the mouse. They tend to get rather wonky when dragging several objects at a time.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:51:24

RE: group objects

Agreed, grouping and layers is a much needed feature.

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Dom on 05 Jul 2020 22:49:26

RE: group objects

This really needs to be done - having to Ctrl+click every time you want to select more than one component is really frustrating

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JorisNippur on 05 Jul 2020 22:41:27

RE: group objects

It could also be very handy to be able to minimize the group of visualisations. In this way you could hide/unhide all the report filters on a report for example.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:41:08

RE: group objects

Creating compelling visuals is the most difficult part of this tool. Grouping as well as guides and anchors would be greatly appreciated!

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Michael Brady on 05 Jul 2020 22:41:00

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Agreed, especially useful for me when building a search type page with several slicers.

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Rory Neary on 05 Jul 2020 22:37:31

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Totally agree. It is particularly difficult to select all objects where you have many of them stacked on top of each other and as a result you have to manually select. Not only that, but once you've moved them they become deselected again which is frustrating.