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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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    Mike on 06 Jul 2020 00:08:57

    RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

    Any update on the request to toggle off ALL interactions for multiple visuals at once... Not a fan of selecting each individually and switching to none.

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    andrey yakimov on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:27

    RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

    also vote for this:
    https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/33846883-make-visuals-unselectable

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    Alex on 06 Jul 2020 00:06:10

    RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

    Surely needed this feature. Huge time saver!
    It's surprising it does not already exist by now!

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    Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:03:04

    RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

    Needed. Following!!

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    Darcy MacNevin on 06 Jul 2020 00:01:58

    RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

    This is urgently needed...takes up so much time doing this.

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    lars crauwels on 06 Jul 2020 00:00:44

    RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

    Definitly needed! Following..

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    Talitha on 05 Jul 2020 23:59:57

    RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

    Change multiple interactions simultaneously would save me lots of time!! Strange that it is not possible yet.

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    Rex Holt on 05 Jul 2020 23:58:37

    RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

    Although this idea mentions that ability to disable the interactions, I would like to see a way to disable or enable all of the interactions at once. I prefer to set all of my interactions to filter so having this functionality would save me a lot of time.

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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:55:37

    RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

    Need the ability to set a default interaction eg filter and thereafter to change multiple interactions simultaneously

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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:54:12

    RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

    need the ability to disable all interactions on a report with one click.