Aaron on 23 Jun 2016 01:34:15
Shapes are useful for adding background formatting to pages. However, if accidentally selected, they move to the front and obscure anything in the same location until deselected. This can be very jarring and confusing to viewers.
PowerBI should allow marking a shape as 'locked' to prevent interactions in View mode that would trigger this behavior.
- Comments (14)
RE: Lock out selection of shapes and widgets
This bug is the main reason why we can't implement a slicer pane (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy9nmSQeUWg)
RE: Lock out selection of shapes and widgets
VERY MUCH NEEDED
RE: Lock out selection of shapes and widgets
There are a ton of suggestions like this - really hoping it gets noticed and changed
RE: Lock out selection of shapes and widgets
Completely agree. This should be a bug and not a feature request.
RE: Lock out selection of shapes and widgets
I strongly recommend this idea. I have been facing this issue for at least a little more than a year!
RE: Lock out selection of shapes and widgets
Personally, I think this should be general for all visuals. Once out of edit mode, the Layer Order should be static, no matter what is selected. If I have set a visual to be behind another, it is for a reason and should never appear in front of it! It's quite odd behavior in my opinion.
RE: Lock out selection of shapes and widgets
Without this, interacting with visuals that include shapes becomes a very confusing and unprofessional experience
RE: Lock out selection of shapes and widgets
Really we're missing visual formatting options which would make a lot of this unnecessary (e.g., shadow).
RE: Lock out selection of shapes and widgets
This feature is absolutely a must. Users think they did something wrong when a background shape gets selected and moves to the front of a visual. The workaround is to not use shapes, but then, why have the shapes? They are great for design, they just need to allow turning off any hover over or select ability. I can't think of a single use case where you would want this to happen, so it seems like a bug to me.
RE: Lock out selection of shapes and widgets
I would actually add this as a "General" setting for all visualizations that would be called "Allow Interaction". When enabled (default) the visualization behaves as it does today. When disabled, the visualization is non-selectable and cannot be interacted with. Using that, it would be trivial to setup some UI elements and have them not be bothersome in production reports.
This has been a feature of other MS programs for a while - it's like the old "Locked" and "Disabled" combo in Access.
For graphics, informational text, etc., having them be selectable outside of edit mode is a nuisance. It not only makes for a broken UI experience, but it also can cause a lot of confusion when you're trying to interact with a graph that has some image/etc. behind it.