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Click and Drag to Select Multiple Objects and Allow Nudge

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Shelley Smith on 10 Jul 2018 21:26:04

Similar to the other Microsoft products, it'd be great if we could click and drag the mouse to select multiple object on a page. Then, once multiple are selected, allow us to nudge them with the arrow keys all at the same time. Right now, we have to click one at a time and nudge one at a time. Oftentimes, I have many items I've already spent time aligning and then I need to nudge them and I have to do it one at a time.

Administrator on 17 Nov 2020 22:51:47

We've implemented rectangle select for visuals as of April 2020, including nudge!

Power BI Desktop April 2020 Feature Summary | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 06 Jul 2020 00:18:23

RE: Click and Drag to Select Multiple Objects and Allow Nudge

Yes please that would be awesome

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:12:23

RE: Click and Drag to Select Multiple Objects and Allow Nudge

2020 and nothing at all... Microsoft is giving no **** for PBI. That's why I am switching to Tableau

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Colton on 06 Jul 2020 00:11:11

RE: Click and Drag to Select Multiple Objects and Allow Nudge

Please implement this functionality. If I have a scatter plot of 100+ points and want to mark 20 of them - is the solution really to control click each of them?

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Steve D on 06 Jul 2020 00:10:01

RE: Click and Drag to Select Multiple Objects and Allow Nudge

So far I love PBI and so the below is constructive criticism.

I am learning Power BI after having used other designers like Crystal and SSRS and the interface of Visual Studio. My experience with selecting and moving objects is similar to the experience I have with much of the formatting in PBI - it is dreadfully slow and time consuming the way that they have built it.

PBI is very powerful and getting data out of the source and modeled is a snap compared to other solutions,. However, making good looking reports like the examples that can be downloaded is very painful and is where MS needs to do some serious work. I would prefer to see more of a Visual Studio type layout with panes that I can move around and organize as I see fit and lists of properties that are not grouped in show/hide fashion that are hard to find and time consuming to access.

Dragging to select objects should just be part of a faster editing experience.


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Gowtham on 06 Jul 2020 00:09:22

RE: Click and Drag to Select Multiple Objects and Allow Nudge

We could live without this if the selection was faster. But as soon as you select the second object, further selections becomes extremely slow and almost non-responsive. It would be great if this is fixed or drag and select is introduced. I'm guessing it's not such a complex feature since it's available by default in all other apps.

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isha sakalley on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:25

RE: Click and Drag to Select Multiple Objects and Allow Nudge

Totally need this feature it is so painful to select each individual visual

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Elisa Daniel on 06 Jul 2020 00:01:35

RE: Click and Drag to Select Multiple Objects and Allow Nudge

Please do this! On our reports with a ton of visuals, this is a HUGE time waster. I've spent hours selecting one object at a time, nudging it around, selecting the next, having to send things forward and backward constantly to be able to move everything.

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Sami Phoenix on 05 Jul 2020 23:59:51

RE: Click and Drag to Select Multiple Objects and Allow Nudge

Come on this is basic stuff - Please add this feature

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daksh bhatia on 05 Jul 2020 23:59:30

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please add this feature .. else power bi will die in future !!!!

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alexander gerasimenko on 05 Jul 2020 23:58:37

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You can use selection Pane to Ctrl click objects and then move them. not as easy as drag square around objects but still better than selecting one by one especially if they have actions