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ironryan77
Kudo Commander
9 years ago
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Matrix Word Wrap functionality

Regarding the Matrix Word Wrap functionality from the February 2017 Update, does this only word wrap on the row header values?  From my testing, it looks like it doesn't affect the last Row or any of the Value columns.  See screenshot for details.  When will this be fixed?

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  • v-yulgu-msft's avatar
    v-yulgu-msft
    9 years ago

    Hi ironryan77,

     

    I can reproduce your issue. In my test, the Word Wrap. In my test, if I add multiple row groups in matrix, Word Wrap doesn't work on the last field (in your scenario, it's Primary_Payor_Level_6). It looks like an issue, you can submit it at the page I provided in my original post, and you can paste the link back and I will vote it up for you.

     

    Best regards,
    Yuliana Gu

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  • Wilson's avatar
    Wilson
    New Member
    9 years ago

    The decisions the building team is making with some of these formatting features is nothing less than disappointing. It makes one wonder if they have ever built a dashboard before!?! 99% of the time we need to wrap text on the column or row titles. Also, the addition of words such as first, last, earliest to the tool tip is hair pulling obnoxious; among many other head scratching features. Please hire consultants that have actually built dashboards for a living to help you guys make design decisions, because this is certainly a big knock on this tool.

     

  • v-yulgu-msft's avatar
    v-yulgu-msft
    Microsoft Employee
    9 years ago

    Hi ironryan77,

     

    I can reproduce your scenario in Power BI desktop February 2017 release. As is stated in this article, in a matrix visual, Word Wrap functionality only applies to row headers, it makes no difference to values and column headers. 

     

    We can see that Word Wrap option only exists under Row header tab.

     

    You can sumbit your feature request at this page: https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas If this feature was mentioned by many users, product team will consider to add this feature to next release. 

     

    Best regards,
    Yuliana Gu

    • ironryan77's avatar
      ironryan77
      Kudo Commander
      9 years ago

      Yes, but my point is that Word Wrap does not even work on all row headers!

      • v-yulgu-msft's avatar
        v-yulgu-msft
        Microsoft Employee
        9 years ago

        Hi ironryan77,

         

        I can reproduce your issue. In my test, the Word Wrap. In my test, if I add multiple row groups in matrix, Word Wrap doesn't work on the last field (in your scenario, it's Primary_Payor_Level_6). It looks like an issue, you can submit it at the page I provided in my original post, and you can paste the link back and I will vote it up for you.

         

        Best regards,
        Yuliana Gu

  • Wilson's avatar
    Wilson
    New Member
    9 years ago

    The decisions the building team is making with some of these formatting features is nothing less than disappointing. It makes one wonder if they have ever built a dashboard before!?! 99% of the time we need to wrap text on the column or row titles. Also, the addition of words such as first, last, earliest to the tool tip is hair pulling obnoxious; among many other head scratching features. Please hire consultants that have actually built dashboards for a living to help you guys make design decisions, because this is certainly a big knock on this tool.

     

    • kkim17's avatar
      kkim17
      Frequent Visitor
      9 years ago

      Please please please ge people who regularly build dashboards within Excel/Tableau/Qlik to be a guiding voice in your establishing your formatting capabilities.  Honestly how these format features are being released it seeems to be quite sloppy. 

       

      For instance the line width feature released a few months back only allowed for thicker lines.  Huh? While the community at large was expecting the option for thinner lines. 

      Such as the same with text wrap function. 

       

      You really need a expert voice cause as a potential proponent of PBI I'm going to shift our dashboards to Tableau until all the format features seemingly haphazardly get addressed. Leverage this forum and ask all the questions and then go out deploy.  Don't assume.

  • TheToni's avatar
    TheToni
    New Member
    5 years ago

    Hi,

    As a temporary walkaround, you can simply change the visualization to Table which has the wrap working, and then change it back to Matrix visualization. 

    Hope this helps.

     

    Thanks,
    Toni

    • Fusilier2's avatar
      Fusilier2
      Helper V
      2 years ago

      It's now 2024 and it looks like this is still the only workaround.