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Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

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Pedro Innecco on 07 Jan 2015 17:27:10

I think this is a must not only for Power BI designers (the online one and the desktop one), but also the Power View designers (both SharePoint and Excel).

We need the ability to be able to align, resize and distribute components in a dashboard/sheet. I mean the controls we normally find with office tools such as:

* Alignment: Align left, right, top, bottom, centre, middle. Distribute horizontally and vertically. Snap to grid, view gridlines, set gridlines, etc.

* Positioning: Being able to see and specify x and y coordinates for objects.

* Sizing: Specify height and width values.

I feel these requirements are long overdue since the initial release of Power View years ago.

Comments (47)

Comments (47)

1df914d3 6a2f-4022-9ae6-d439cbb600be on 05 Jul 2020 22:15:16

RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

I like my charts to be neatly organized and aligned, and so I greatly miss the alignment and and adjustment functionalities of powerpoint. So please keep on ading new functions! Thanks

8d1837e7 ceb1-45f9-817b-ca87992905c6 on 05 Jul 2020 22:13:05

RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

Must must must have, nothing more to say!

d4b42ea7 cf8a-440b-9e78-497d2bb47813 on 05 Jul 2020 22:12:39

RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

Why not offer both and provide a toggle switch to control the behaviour?

1b4680d4 49fb-4268-8ba5-c9f75ea92e95 on 05 Jul 2020 22:12:32

RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

It can be even like datazen dashboard which give good layout for the dashboard

e5b5d7f5 0017-47e9-929d-ca653d6bea13 on 05 Jul 2020 22:11:05

RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

for the scatter plot - allow us control the SIZE of the bubble please - lots of data elements getting hidden behind others bc the bubble size cannot be controlled or scaled.

Thx

43fbf7a4 a7ae-4230-9335-c38cdd5e8108 on 05 Jul 2020 22:11:03

RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

I completely agree. This functionality would be extremely useful. It takes way to long to create a decent looking report.

290dfd97 2467-4fb8-bb50-92c761a445bd on 05 Jul 2020 22:10:51

RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

Plus Lock aspect. After creating report lock all the items. So background does not step to the front when you click on it or the same with shapes.
Also after locking the items you would not see boarders of the chart. It is really annoying to see all the boarders and by mistake move the charts.

794d381c 0f1e-460a-867a-fac63607359f on 05 Jul 2020 22:10:49

RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

hopefully, gets implemented by the next release!

1f7f2711 5819-e611-80e2-c4346bad91c4 on 05 Jul 2020 22:10:36

RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

Funny that I forgot to mention the bring to front/send to back in my feature request (I meant to -- I just forgot) and yet this was the *FIRST* bit that Microsoft added to Power BI in Q4/2015. ;)

ea98c449 aae3-4276-892b-377cf6e88f4f on 05 Jul 2020 22:10:10

RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

Totally agree! Examples provided in PowerBI are perfectly adjusted, aligned. How did you managed to do this? Manually? I don't think so...
Looking forward for such improvment.