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'prompts' the User Before Creating a Hierarchy When Fields are Dragged Onto Each Other

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Avi Singh on 25 Jan 2019 09:37:41

How many times have you dragged a field onto another field by mistake and have it create a hierarchy?

It happens quite often. Usually I am trying to drag the field to the Visualization pane but fail to hold the mouse button. And lo and behold it creates a hierarchy. (Which I then have to delete. But sometimes I do not even notice that I accidentally created a hierarchy).

It would be nice if a prompt came up, asking if we want to create a Hierarchy.

Administrator on 17 Jun 2021 00:17:52

The default hierarchy creation behavior has been updated.

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:10:14

RE: 'prompts' the User Before Creating a Hierarchy When Fields are Dragged Onto Each Other

Agree

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Jason Hurley on 06 Jul 2020 00:10:11

RE: 'prompts' the User Before Creating a Hierarchy When Fields are Dragged Onto Each Other

Completely agree and love the 1:2500 ratio. It's a great feature and should be kept in there, but it's so rarely needed. Plus newbies accidentally do it ALL THE TIME!

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Evan on 06 Jul 2020 00:08:49

RE: 'prompts' the User Before Creating a Hierarchy When Fields are Dragged Onto Each Other

Damn this is so annoying. Please add this.

The number of times I've added a Hierarchy on purpose vs. accidentally has got to be 1:2500.

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:51:01

RE: 'prompts' the User Before Creating a Hierarchy When Fields are Dragged Onto Each Other

Would be even nicer to turn off creating hierarchies at all...

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Vahid Zarezadeh on 05 Jul 2020 23:50:17

RE: 'prompts' the User Before Creating a Hierarchy When Fields are Dragged Onto Each Other

Agree with Avi... Creation the hierarchy accidentally often results in confusion when my colleagues continue to visualize the model I created in Desktop...

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:50:16

RE: 'prompts' the User Before Creating a Hierarchy When Fields are Dragged Onto Each Other

Would like a prompt.. would also like a easier way to release or "throw away"an unintended field

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Stretcharm on 05 Jul 2020 23:50:13

RE: 'prompts' the User Before Creating a Hierarchy When Fields are Dragged Onto Each Other

Yep. Probability of me doing this and meaning to is very very low

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Wyn Hopkins on 05 Jul 2020 23:50:05

RE: 'prompts' the User Before Creating a Hierarchy When Fields are Dragged Onto Each Other

I'm with Avi on this one, although just not doing anything would be my preferred option compared to having a prompt. Maybe we have to Ctrl Select before right-clicking New Hierarchy?