George Bryant on 29 Oct 2015 19:25:22
Other MS products offer the ability to group items together and layer. I have found call to need to push shapes to the back and metrics forward etc but find current workarounds cumbersome. Plus if you want to copy a layered visual (white box covering things etc) I have to recreate the whole thing instead of grouping
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We have completed this idea!
You can read about it in our documentation: Use grouping in Power BI Desktop - Power BI | Microsoft Docs
We have also implemented a maintain layer order feature in Sept 2020. Find more details: Power BI September 2020 Feature Summary | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI
- Comments (13)
RE: Ability to group and layer visuals
Tacking onto this, the weird behavior of "I click something and it comes to the front" prevents deliberate overlapping of elements (ex: a card in a total row providing a dynamic row count ... an info button in a column header...simple boxes used to visually separate items...) if that's not just a bug, some control over the behavior would be nice
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Buttons-overlapping-visuals-in-Reports/m-p/412889#M44484
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/20506444-permanent-layering-for-specific-shapes-and-visuals
RE: Ability to group and layer visuals
There should be a feature to group multiple visuals in a single container such that when the container is moved, visuals inside it also move relatively, when the size of the container is changed, visuals size should also change relatively
RE: Ability to group and layer visuals
Yes, we need this. Lock individual objects, or give us the ability to place them on layers, and lock the layer.
RE: Ability to group and layer visuals
I very need this, I use Bookmarks for changing visibility of many items and their axe into the hierarchy, but it's very tedious
RE: Ability to group and layer visuals
Yes, it would be a very useful feature, just like in Power Point. Unfortunatelly, it looks like they do not consider it as a priority.
RE: Ability to group and layer visuals
Yes definitely helpful when you want to apply a filter only for certain set of visuals
RE: Ability to group and layer visuals
Holy cow...is it hard to reformat hundreds of visuals or what? Grouping would solve this. I have a report with tons of KPIs that are in grid like blocks. So time-consuming to do simple reformatting.
RE: Ability to group and layer visuals
It would be useful. I think it is simple.
RE: Ability to group and layer visuals
Would be very useful
RE: Ability to group and layer visuals
It would be useful. I think it is simple.