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Disable visual highlighting and interactions

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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

Comments (73)

Comments (73)

a2da0b80 b153-40d0-8355-9a5934a5dc6a on 05 Jul 2020 23:28:52

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

Disabling highlighting at the visualization level would allow greater report customization, I've been requested to add this functionality to one of our engineering reports (table visualization) - they'll have to wait for now I guess...

08fe3fe1 633e-4f25-99f8-b6a0b4b088c4 on 05 Jul 2020 23:23:58

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

I created 12 bookmarks, and now I should to disable all interactions between each other. "Disable all interactions" feature will be very helpful in this case, because it is enabled by default among all visuals.

529d75a8 9355-4257-9ada-5b642792c5c3 on 05 Jul 2020 23:23:36

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

I back this up 100%! It would be immensely helpful if interactions could somehow be incorporated into the selection pane, just so there could be a way to eyeball interactions on a larger scale at least. For instance, I have a report that should have all interactions be either disabled, or fully filtering, none should be highlighting. However, by default it automatically sets up the filtering as highlighting for all newly added (or even copied) visuals!

79604ccf 69a5-48c3-80a5-ed1be6e0be96 on 05 Jul 2020 23:23:31

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

Please take Redmond's suggestion on board!

926ed1e3 f694-4b96-87b8-c6c3217c0135 on 05 Jul 2020 23:23:26

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

PowerBI shouldn't be sold without this feature.

4a42ebb1 247a-450c-b4dd-ad7068847c72 on 05 Jul 2020 23:22:01

RE: Disable visual highlighting and interactions

When you have 4 - 6 visuals on a page and you introduce a new one, it is irritating to go to edit interactions and click None on each of the other visuals and vice-versa.