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ZeDe
Frequent Visitor

Dynamic Height and Y-position of visuals

Dear all,

 

I'm recreating a Sharepoint report in PowerBI. In the Sharepoint-report all records of the matrix are shown, so the amount of records determine the height of the visual. In my Sharepoint-report, the Y-position of the matrix is always 20px below the underside of the visual above (even when the visual above is 50px or 500px high). Is there a way to achieve these two functionalities in PowerBI in 2021 (like you can write adaptive height and y in PowerApps)?

 

Thank you in advance

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V-lianl-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @ZeDe ,

 

It is not possible in PowerBI. The auto size of a visual is not available now. After the size of a visual is fixed, it will not be changed conditionally based on the content.

PowerBI added the ability to show and snap-to a grid, which makes lining things up easy.

You can turn that feature on by going:

Open PowerBI > File > Options & Settings > Options > Preview Features > Gridlines & Snap to Grid

Once that's on, go to View on the ribbon and turn on the grid.

Alternatively, you can alter the X Y coordinates of each graph, but that's much more time consuming

 

Best Regards,
Liang
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AlexisOlson
Super User
Super User

I don't think this is possible in Power BI Desktop. The visual boundaries are a fixed size.

 

A paginated report (Report Builder) can do this sort of thing but is a very different piece of technology.

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