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Redmond Hartop on 18 May 2018 16:39:30

When clicking on certain elements of a visual, I can control the interaction this selection has on other visuals within the report, but I was wondering if there is the ability to completely disable the clickability of a visual? I don't want the end users to be able to click on the visual at all, so neither the selected visual or other visuals would be highlighted? Tooltips should still be viewable on hover.

This feature should be available for use in both service and desktop.

More information on the unsuccessful attempts people have made trying to achieve this with graphs/charts can be found here:

http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Disabling-chart-highlighting-and-interactions/m-p/420353#M193201

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e9e55b67 5541-487c-a72b-bab27bfcbb76 on 05 Jul 2020 23:52:42

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

My biggest pain point for this is text boxes and visuals. If I have a visual overlayed on top of an image or text box, the user can inadvertently click on it and make the visuals move behind because that particular visual is forced to the front thus hiding the visuals and making it really confusing to an end user exactly what happened/how to fix.

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f638e724 d49a-46f7-9431-885b30cb4485 on 05 Jul 2020 23:51:17

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

I add a big transparent square and move it forward, so the user will click on it instead the data itself.

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9babce58 4f08-4b67-8c09-bba8aa9d8b66 on 05 Jul 2020 23:50:31

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

Please please work on this feature, it´ll make a big difference for end users.. Thanks for the big support

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265e99aa 4a6d-48c1-b508-8cf54fdf7089 on 05 Jul 2020 23:48:42

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

indeed!

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72009f23 bc76-40a8-8c8d-b1c688caceac on 05 Jul 2020 23:48:35

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

Please add! Field users get confused as to what they are filtered on... this feature will stop that confusion. Thanks.

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d57cb8e8 0972-4d84-9c2d-45c34764db69 on 05 Jul 2020 23:47:53

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

PLEASE ADD! Think about this... currently if there are 30 visuals on a page and you don't want any interaction, you must choose each one and then turn off the other 29. That's 870 clicks!!! And if any of the visuals overlap, you can't even click to turn off interaction without first bringing it to front or moving/resizing.

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90ffc094 e150-46af-91af-a426e4a5c67e on 05 Jul 2020 23:47:13

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

I too would like this feature. This would make it so only certain slicers can be used to change visuals.

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b0955d94 a149-4589-acf4-ded3fb1cb5ab on 05 Jul 2020 23:47:04

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

This is needed urgently. I am creating some quite complex reports with repeated, but slightly different slicers which need to interact with different charts. For each item I have to go through and disable interactions with dozens of objects on the page - and for many of them I have to resize the item just to get to the interaction items.
This whole UI for interactions needs some serious work to improve it.

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5e9d99f8 bc54-4d08-8c83-e0dc360459a7 on 05 Jul 2020 23:46:46

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

Agree, very frustrated to change interactions for each and every visual manually. Especially when it's a dummy slicer that should not interact with anything. Turning off interactions in bulk will also improve performance of the reports.

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9d8b170b 371e-4ae2-8f14-9c1a622f2e16 on 05 Jul 2020 23:46:40

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

Just one more easy and effective way to disable all the interactions in one page could be great!