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CompletedAdd alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers
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)
RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers
As Sergio mentioned, along with all the above being able to bring shapes/report elements to the front or send to the back would be most useful.
RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers
In addition, it would be great if we could use features as "send to back"/"bring to front" when adding shapes to the reports.
RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers
The ability of your end user to bring "data to life", would include the basic functionality to; Alignment, Positioning, Size as described. Seriously, you have people stating they are using POST IT notes as alignment tools. I believe this should be viewed as a "bug" not a enhancement!
RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers
Hi Team,
Is this in progress? Report formatting is currently a major pain point for effective story telling. Currently our team is resorting post it notes on the screen to align visualizations. Event a grid option would be extremely helpful.
RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers
Authoring reports and not being able to align/resize the visualizations is very very frustrating.
A behavior like PowerPoint would be optimal.
RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers
It's been 9 months since the answer from you guys. C'mon guys, it's essential to be able to align charts. Can't play around with this when you show customers live dashboarding/reporting.
RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers
A minimum bar on this would be to have boxes around objects so that they can be aligned and then turned off.
RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers
May have been said before but highlighting things that I would like to see:
a. Grid & Snap-to-Grid
b. Object and Text Alignment (Right, Left, Justify etc.)
c. Fonts and Sizes for Widget Titles
d. Widget Placement
e. And other generic tools and options to make a dashboard/report visually & aesthetically appealing.
RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers
Another vote in favor of this, and for on-screen guides to behave the way they do in PowerPoint to aid positioning, alignment and sizing.
RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers
Alignment is a great idea, but also the possibility to view/edit the dimensions of the visualisation frame area.