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Redmond Hartop on 18 May 2018 16:39:30

When clicking on certain elements of a visual, I can control the interaction this selection has on other visuals within the report, but I was wondering if there is the ability to completely disable the clickability of a visual? I don't want the end users to be able to click on the visual at all, so neither the selected visual or other visuals would be highlighted? Tooltips should still be viewable on hover.

This feature should be available for use in both service and desktop.

More information on the unsuccessful attempts people have made trying to achieve this with graphs/charts can be found here:

http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Disabling-chart-highlighting-and-interactions/m-p/420353#M193201

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Lee on 05 Jul 2020 23:46:46

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

Agree, very frustrated to change interactions for each and every visual manually. Especially when it's a dummy slicer that should not interact with anything. Turning off interactions in bulk will also improve performance of the reports.

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Samyr Moises on 05 Jul 2020 23:46:40

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

Just one more easy and effective way to disable all the interactions in one page could be great!

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Mohammad Farroukh on 05 Jul 2020 23:46:12

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

We need a disable all interactions feature asap, doing this manually where you have 10s of visuals is a nightmare!

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Muhammad Omer on 05 Jul 2020 23:46:12

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

I am not sure why this option is not there, i have wasted 3+ hours today for interactions with the page with 50+ visuals. This could have done in 15 minutes with this option.

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Mike on 05 Jul 2020 23:42:39

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

please add!

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:42:23

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

Yes, this is still needed!

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Thomas C. on 05 Jul 2020 23:42:02

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

A simple Control + Click which sets the same Filter/Highlight/None interaction between the selected visualization and all other eligible visuals on the page would be an immense time/frustration saver.

As the original poster laments, navigating these selections within a compact design is problematic.

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Joe on 05 Jul 2020 23:40:14

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

Same issue

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Poppy on 05 Jul 2020 23:39:48

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

There is a setting I have just found under options > CURRENT FILE >> Query Reduction, the tick disabling cross highlighting/filtering by default. Might help here.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:39:42

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

Yes we need disable all option at Dashboard level.