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Combine Title and Menu Bar on all Visualizations

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John Fitzpatrick on 28 Apr 2016 11:19:10

Every visualization has a 25 unit bar on top with the "Focus Mode" and "More options links. When combined with a Title bar, this uses 50 units of 720 for the total vertical space on a report page. I like having a Title and the menu options but would like them combined.

Comments (39)

Comments (39)

Enric Segura on 05 Jul 2020 23:22:58

RE: Combine Title and Menu Bar on all Visualizations

Why does a line/shape need the menu bar? And why does a text box need the menu bar?

It's very annoying to have menu bars overlapping on top of other visuals, while hovering over visuals.

Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:21:29

RE: Combine Title and Menu Bar on all Visualizations

This is a huge hindrance on dashboard design. Take a look at Tableau's implementation. It's far more elegant. It only appears when you hover and in a very small box in the upper right corner with a dropdown menu.

Kishore S on 05 Jul 2020 23:20:52

RE: Combine Title and Menu Bar on all Visualizations

I think Microsoft can change the functionality, by making space available for the visual. The white bar functionality can be change to a mouse over feature which will popup and slide down, this will make report and dashboard look more cleaner.

George Ramsdell on 05 Jul 2020 23:18:18

RE: Combine Title and Menu Bar on all Visualizations

I would like to build dashboards with smaller tolerances. I wish I could customize the amount of padding on each Object/visualization. I like to use textboxes and images, its near impossible to use these without overlapping with other objects.

For some objects it would be good if the "focus mode" and "pin visual" could be disabled when published. Do we need a "pin visual" on a text box?

Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:14:13

RE: Combine Title and Menu Bar on all Visualizations

This is one of the last few steps in enabling us to create clean, minimalistic dashboards/reports. A toggle button to enable/disable the whole bar is all we ask for!

Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:13:13

RE: Combine Title and Menu Bar on all Visualizations

The concept needs to be re-thunk. :) You can't necessarily get rid of the whole bar (b/c there is functionality in the upper-right), but the rest of the bar ends up being a bunch of wasted space, a visual annoyance, and if you're not careful, a hindrance to actually manipulating report elements.