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Better control over the shapes, textbox and images

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on 03 Dec 2015 15:39:42

Please consider adding functionality to give the report author more control of shapes, textboxes and images. This functionality might include grouping, disabling selection, etc.

This would enrich the options for organizing data onto the report page and will remove all those unnecessary grey lines and rectangles that the user sees when hovering over the controls

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2c013912 206d-4a21-a59d-967519011009 on 05 Jul 2020 23:39:19

RE: Better control over the shapes, textbox and images

without this feature, using bookmarks and hiding filters is not usable as users can click areas outside filter widgets and hide filter widgets.

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a1c41933 22cd-4393-ba43-5633c1f1f574 on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:48

RE: Better control over the shapes, textbox and images

Needs to be a priority. Creating Slicer panels is limited by this feature as the end-user can select the shape the items are boxed in and inadvertently hide all the items until they click off focus on the shape

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96aba67d cc9f-4c6e-9285-e8569b0822bd on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:17

RE: Better control over the shapes, textbox and images

How has this not been added yet, shapes are mostly useless

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9237a8b6 8cc6-4c79-9f7a-9eb3a17190de on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:10

RE: Better control over the shapes, textbox and images

Please add this feature.

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d80f18b2 3795-4833-8165-26f1d86c5dc4 on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:02

RE: Better control over the shapes, textbox and images

This is critical feature that is still missing in Power BI.
It would be great to have "disable selection" features in the reading mode and to be able to group elements and assign them features as a group.
This gives amazing amount of flexibility which currently is missing and is limiting UX (especially on the Mobile application).

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948f9ee5 4406-4f35-9469-21add72299f7 on 05 Jul 2020 23:35:25

RE: Better control over the shapes, textbox and images

3 years and no correction on such kind of important issue...

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00a85c8e 7088-45a4-9547-07e03e27567c on 05 Jul 2020 23:34:09

RE: Better control over the shapes, textbox and images

'+1

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e296fc5e 3dbf-4735-98ff-8ffca44f6428 on 05 Jul 2020 23:33:55

RE: Better control over the shapes, textbox and images

I created some boxes outside of Power BI with a format I like to put visualizations like slicers on top of to create some definition between objects and even though you can send them to back you can still accidentally click on them to bring them forward. Please create an option to disable focus for an object.

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4eabd017 e211-ea11-a811-000d3a8f022a on 05 Jul 2020 23:32:12

RE: Better control over the shapes, textbox and images

This would also enable report creators to create better UX-designs when for example bulding designs by the use of shapes, text boxes etc. Currently these items are brought to front whenever a user selects the item, and wont go away until it is deselected, which can be pretty frustrating and even cause great designs to fail.

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ab5f20e7 6e65-461c-8e98-d26a9e01c1ac on 05 Jul 2020 23:32:05

RE: Better control over the shapes, textbox and images

This is a must have. Not everything in the dashboard needs to be selectable and brought to the front. This makes layering images with visualizations a nightmare.