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Disable visual highlighting and interactions

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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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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:20:14

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

I concur

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:20:14

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

A much needed feature

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:16:38

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

very much needed, bcoz we work in Local mode, and other modes too. It is time consuming.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:11:57

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

Good Idea and will improve a lot the benefits.

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Clarison on 05 Jul 2020 23:11:56

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

Amazing Idea !!!

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Laila Rothe on 05 Jul 2020 23:11:45

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

Good idea and very necessary!

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Javier Sierra on 05 Jul 2020 23:11:03

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

Yes... is pretty necessary.

Very annoying when you have +50 visuals across bookmarks

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Gustavo on 05 Jul 2020 23:08:40

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

This idea is amazing. We need it. Maybe it will be useful if, plus the option to enable/disable, a window where we can manage easily the existent interactions in the page. Thanks.

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Gustavo on 05 Jul 2020 23:08:40

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

We need this ASAP. Creating new visuals and disabling non-desirable interactions consumes to much time, and opens a window for many data misunderstoods.

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Karin on 05 Jul 2020 23:04:07

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

My point of view: if users get used to the interaction in tables and you turn off all other visuals, mouse over is still visible. That might cause users to misinterpret data. They never know when tables are interactive and when not - so they cant know for sure when data shows correctly.