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Anonymous
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Blanking Issue in Report layout

I have created a report which has a text box coloured in yellow on the side as a layout.I have added a couple of filters and buttons on top of that. I have set the alignment for the text box as "Send Backwards" and "Send Forward" for the other filters. But when I accidentally click outside the filter, the textbox gets highlighted and the filters disappears. This happens even when viewing the published report on power BI web.

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I want to create a layout as below. Any suggestions on how I could get the side bar, without having any click action associated with it.

 

 
 
 

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MartynRamsden
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Hi @Anonymous 

 

Unfortunatley, this isn't currently possible.

There's an idea for this here . Be sure to vote it up!

 

In the meantime, you may be able to use the workaround detailed in this post: community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Disable-selection-of-a-visual/td-p/11352/page/2 

 

Best regards,
Martyn


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Anonymous
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Thank you for the suggestion. I will try this out!

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