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Ability to lock/unlock edditing of visualizations on a page

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on 08 Jan 2016 06:48:55

I frequently must prepare Power BI dashboards and reports that will be consumed predominantly by persons not deeply familiar with the Power BI environment.I would like to have the ability to lock/unlock visualizations for editing on a report page. A locked visualization would not be able to be moved or resized. It also would not have the visualization selection box appear when interacting with the visual. cross filtering and selection of objects within a visualization should not be affected. This would allow a published dashboard to have reports that share the same "finished" look and feel as the dashboard view.

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8b60aa98 04e7-48d1-81b9-5f7992b21398 on 05 Jul 2020 23:09:16

RE: Ability to lock/unlock edditing of visualizations on a page

I agree that the lack of this feature is limiting adoption. Spotfire has a feature where all the active visualisation can be saved, so multiple views and filters can be saved.

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76713e8d 5e78-4fbb-8420-17e6281a20e6 on 05 Jul 2020 23:08:38

RE: Ability to lock/unlock edditing of visualizations on a page

Yes, please!!!!

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fc2aefcf 73a5-4d7b-bbff-ef42cf14e581 on 05 Jul 2020 23:06:47

RE: Ability to lock/unlock edditing of visualizations on a page

I agree! This is very much a necessity, all too often graphics get changed ever so slightly, but enough to make a difference when analyzing the report and then the entire process is skewed as a consequence!

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ce07a9a2 9c74-4f0e-bf2d-e1151b2ec3e0 on 05 Jul 2020 23:06:40

RE: Ability to lock/unlock edditing of visualizations on a page

Please do this!

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9d946a5f db22-406c-948b-1d18c3432c33 on 05 Jul 2020 23:05:33

RE: Ability to lock/unlock edditing of visualizations on a page

I hope this one will be available in power BI desktop.

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0dc50d60 7128-4a85-9758-5e2f047648ff on 05 Jul 2020 22:59:16

RE: Ability to lock/unlock edditing of visualizations on a page

is this not done yet. this one feature will slow adoption of PowerBI more than any other missing feature. Internal and external client reporting is not possible without a read only version, many large companies do not distribute certain type of data / reports to internal and external groups unless they have TOTAL control over the report, this cant be done with out a lock feature.

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96c185a7 bb8a-43e3-8208-f9d0f67b6e7f on 05 Jul 2020 22:58:23

RE: Ability to lock/unlock edditing of visualizations on a page

Please make this a top priority.

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5bdf4525 88e5-49de-a166-1d791fb68cd1 on 05 Jul 2020 22:58:17

RE: Ability to lock/unlock edditing of visualizations on a page

Yup... We still need this.

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05174fbf 2db1-41be-a81c-d671421b04ef on 05 Jul 2020 22:57:52

RE: Ability to lock/unlock edditing of visualizations on a page

Definately needed.

Locking to prevent moving, resizing, deletion and changing the type of a visual.

Maybe some keyboard shortcut to enable/disable locking of the selected visual could be most fluid from the perspective of report designer's workflow.

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e0da9a9a c0af-4793-9464-2f8e8dec838a on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:44

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I'm looking for this as well. Should be a great feature.