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Luca Gualtieri on 01 Feb 2019 02:44:01

Develop an item formatting property which allows to set the visibility of a report item when you want to conditionally hide the item based on a report parameter or some other expression that you specify (also DAX expressions).

You can develop this incrementally starting from visuals, then text boxes, then shapes and buttons....

If you want to go the extra mile, you can also develop a functionality that allows the final user to toggle the visibility of report items.

For more information and since it was an available and really useful capability see "Add an Expand or Collapse Action to an Item (Report Builder and SSRS)".

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/report-builder/hide-an-item-report-builder-and-ssrs?view=sql-server-2017

I double checked in the ideas database and there are many ideas describing the same functionality; this is the reason why I do believe this is really required and will try to collect all the previous votes under this item.

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3f24e583 a1c7-ea11-a812-000d3a579c39 on 10 Aug 2020 20:01:47

RE: Visibilty (Hide an Item)

Please add this. Need it for so much since Apps expose quite a bit and tend to ignore security.

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4a19b7d1 d453-4819-8950-b53ffa86bf65 on 06 Jul 2020 00:17:21

RE: Visibilty (Hide an Item)

This is a great idea. I was surprised it does not exist in PBI!

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e18ff994 a335-49a6-ae8f-7889c8800806 on 06 Jul 2020 00:15:49

RE: Visibilty (Hide an Item)

This should be a must to in PBI

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20c9c2ce b4b4-4c33-87e9-4b25efa43d88 on 06 Jul 2020 00:14:26

RE: Visibilty (Hide an Item)

QlikView has had this already for more than 10 years. I was very surprised to not find it in PowerBi. I will stick with QlikView for now.

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0711095b 51bb-4bec-a0c5-54dd69fe939b on 06 Jul 2020 00:12:37

RE: Visibilty (Hide an Item)

Please implement this idea. This will be super helpful.

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fda7609d cf65-43f2-862f-5e419556403a on 06 Jul 2020 00:11:22

RE: Visibilty (Hide an Item)

I totally agree. We are moving away from Qlikview to Power BI and I'm finding quite a few limitations

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40d098e1 df2f-4bb1-8166-631027822354 on 06 Jul 2020 00:11:06

RE: Visibilty (Hide an Item)

This is essential in my option for a BI tool, please develop! Specifically if you
want to guide the user to make certain selections before visuals are displayed it is critical.

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07ab4c00 53a0-49e9-8e5d-6417ed3a4cfe on 06 Jul 2020 00:09:58

RE: Visibilty (Hide an Item)

Dynamically or conditionally hiding visuals based on expressions or parameters would be awesome! Even if you had to come up with a boolean that evaluated to True/False and could tag that to an object, bookmark, or report page's visibility status would be unbelievably fantastic!

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a8d7d91c 928f-4d1f-a5b8-9e37808ae1b5 on 06 Jul 2020 00:06:04

RE: Visibilty (Hide an Item)

Also show/hide bookmarks if ...

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fab9e5fa 2e39-4d31-8852-f6b9e5079ce9 on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:57

RE: Visibilty (Hide an Item)

This'd be incredibly helpful. If I could hide or show a subset of report items based on a filter, I would be able to create reports that have richer, more context-appropriate detail.

For instance, the same units sold report could support people who are interested in month-over-month views (people writing board reports), and a weekly view for those in the sales team.