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Needs VotesArrange Objects (Send to Front, Send to Back, etc) in Power BI Webview
kevin on 25 Mar 2017 13:46:15
Currently I am unable to arrange objects like shapes and text boxes (Send to Front, Send to Back, etc). This makes it difficult to visually customize a dashboard or report to match our chosen look and feel.
We are working with data that is only provided through the online gateway, therefore cannot create a desktop version of the PBIX and are forced to do design through the web interface.
Please add the ability to arrange objects in the web view just like we can in the desktop version.
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RE: Arrange Objects (Send to Front, Send to Back, etc) in Power BI Webview
The workaround doesn't help, in my case at least. I am trying to put two slicers on top of my graph block where it is always empty. I can make them visible by turning "background" off for the Graph block and on for the slicers. The Selection pane under View shows both the slicers on top of the graph but once you click on the graph block, the slicers, although still visible, can't be clicked. You have to click somewhere empty and click back on the slicers to select their options. All this while, the Selection pane still has both the slicers on top. It is confusing while collaborating and the clicking-elsewhere part is non intuitive and undesired, making this kind of overlaps consequently useless. Please fix this.
RE: Arrange Objects (Send to Front, Send to Back, etc) in Power BI Webview
Hi,
OK as a work-around you may put visuals (you wish to set always on background) in a single Group (Group1) then in selection Pane, you give this group a lower order then the always on top visual. For exp, even if you select a little part of a table inside this group, this table wouldn't show entirely, it will remain hidden behind your "always on top" visual
Good luck :)
RE: Arrange Objects (Send to Front, Send to Back, etc) in Power BI Webview
It would actually be a good idea to be able to control this based on slicer or selection. Will help toggle tables/views on run-time or even give the appearance of drill down where it otherwise will not work.
RE: Arrange Objects (Send to Front, Send to Back, etc) in Power BI Webview
Joshua Howard:
OK. The work-around is to use the View -> "Selection Pane" window to organize the order of visual in the service. Use the up and down arrows when selecting a visual to change the order. The top most on the list is the top most in relation to the other visuals. Hope this helps anyone requiring this functionality.
Thanks so much@Joshua
RE: Arrange Objects (Send to Front, Send to Back, etc) in Power BI Webview
Thanks for posting this - I agree with the others here. Clicking on the visual overrides where you have put things in the layer order. Looks terrible. Please fix.
RE: Arrange Objects (Send to Front, Send to Back, etc) in Power BI Webview
Please Add This. I am trying to use unfilled rectangles to set off a group of tables, but can't because the rectangle keeps jumping to the front and the visuals become unclickable
RE: Arrange Objects (Send to Front, Send to Back, etc) in Power BI Webview
Upvoted. We want to use shapes, mostly unfilled rectangles, as elements to guide the user. But it's too painful right now.
RE: Arrange Objects (Send to Front, Send to Back, etc) in Power BI Webview
Thanks @Joshua Howard
RE: Arrange Objects (Send to Front, Send to Back, etc) in Power BI Webview
Thanks Joshua that helped a lot!
RE: Arrange Objects (Send to Front, Send to Back, etc) in Power BI Webview
I feel like this very much needs to be addressed. If we are using one data model to create multiple reports this is a huge gap in the ability to create reports in the service. Please address this ASAP.