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select many items in the canvas with mouse area selection

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Jacky on 01 Apr 2016 01:41:23

Assuming I want to select several items in the canvas for design purpose, instead of select everyone with Ctrl + mouse selection, it would be nice feature to have the ability to drag the mouse over several items, and by doing that select them all

Administrator on 23 Sep 2021 22:04:04

Completed with visual container rectangle select. 

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:27

RE: select many items in the canvas with mouse area selection

It is enormously frustrating to have to Ctrl+Click on multiple items - foundation-level basic functionality that's sorely missing.

To add, the performance of Ctrl+Click is nuts - Once I get ot 2x selected items, the next one takes 10+ seconds!

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:16

RE: select many items in the canvas with mouse area selection

yes, this will be great

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Ntn2018 on 05 Jul 2020 23:24:04

RE: select many items in the canvas with mouse area selection

Qlik View has this functionality and it is very appreciated by customers. Mandatory asap.

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clorenz on 05 Jul 2020 23:16:56

RE: select many items in the canvas with mouse area selection

Dual posted: https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/17220260-desktop-group-objects-and-drag-to-select

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Javier Sierra on 05 Jul 2020 23:10:00

RE: select many items in the canvas with mouse area selection

Mandatory

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Nathan on 05 Jul 2020 22:40:36

RE: select many items in the canvas with mouse area selection

Agree!

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Carlos Pinho on 05 Jul 2020 22:38:27

RE: select many items in the canvas with mouse area selection

It is really important to get this. It turns a nightmare when we have dozens of elements to work on.

Pls support this idea.

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Andrea Spagnuolo on 05 Jul 2020 22:37:42

RE: select many items in the canvas with mouse area selection

It's very important also for me!

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Hung Dang on 05 Jul 2020 22:23:16

RE: select many items in the canvas with mouse area selection

Agreed, this is really handy, especially with more complex reports. Also, enabling ctrl-A for select all is important.

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Pedro Innecco on 05 Jul 2020 22:22:39

RE: select many items in the canvas with mouse area selection

This is quite important. Not only for designing reports, but tableau also allows mouse area selection for points in a map, for example.