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Budfudder
Helper IV
Helper IV

Can't See Three Dots In Report View Online

I'm trying to export my data to Excel. I have a report which I've published to Power BI Online - great. The report consists of a number of visuals, the main one of which is a simple data table. There are others which are slicers.

 

If I mouse over any of the slicers, I get the three little dots in the top right-hand corner which I can click and then export the data. But when I mouse over the data table - no little dots.

 

If I change from Reading View to Edit Report, they come up (but at the bottom of the visual, I assume becuase the visual itself goes right up into the top right-hand corner of the screen). But as soon as I go back to Reading View, they can't be seen.

 

I have users who will not have access to Edit Report who need to export the data. What am I missing?

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Arentir
Resolver III
Resolver III

Hi,

You most likely have deactivated the visual header. Have a look and let us know.

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Arentir

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maja742
Frequent Visitor

I also am having this issue and Visual Headers have not been turned off. I can see the options in Power BI desktop, but not in browser.

Anonymous
Not applicable

A precisation in this old question: maybe you have the "Visual Header" turned on, but inside its group the "More options icon" is turned off, turn on to see the three dots.

m455y_0-1624547201872.png

 

Anonymous
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I had the same problem, and the solution was to turn off the "Hide visual header in reading view" in the Visual Options menu. In your report to go File => Options => Report Settings => Visual Options and turn "Hide visual header in reading view" off. That did the trick for me at least.

Worked when toggled Header Icons under Format Pane

 

RishiJaiswal633_0-1776063593641.png

 

Thanks! Why this buried file setting would be defaulted to 'On', as in 'Hide the visual header', is just another PBI mystery. I sometimes think the developers were continually high, or just sadistic, one or the other..:)
You saved my bacon, I was stumped, thanks again..!

Sorry, Maja, but my problem was solved by Arentir - stupidly, I had turned the Visual Header turned off.

Arentir
Resolver III
Resolver III

Hi,

You most likely have deactivated the visual header. Have a look and let us know.

image.png

Arentir

Hi,

I am stuck here. I have 3 dots pop up on slicers and not on any other visual. Do you know whats going on? In the images below, I had my mouse on the visuals. In one visual you see the more options and in other you do'nt.Power BI Issue.pngPower BI Issue2.png

Anonymous
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This fixed it for me! So obvious, but I spent so long looking for a fix here. Thank you!

What a fool. I didn't even know you could turn it off.

 

Thank you.

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