How to "disable" a shape sent to the back of the dashboard

[agusti_oliveres]

Hi,

I have designed a header for my dashboards that consists in a grey rectangle sent to the back with the title and some filters on it. It looks like the first photo attached:

The problem I want to solve is that if I click on some point of the grey rectangle, it pops to the front, covering all the filters and the title (see the second photo attached)

I would like to avoid that, so if even I click to the rectangle, it remains always at the back. Can anyone help me with that?

Thank you,

Agustí.

[Anonymous]

Found a solution to this, might be a  new release solution since this question was published but it works.

If you select that object poping to the front when clicked on, go to format properties, select and turn ON "Action" and make sure the type is set to "Back".

That way it stays actionless background as intended 🙂

[augustindelaf · Accepted solution]

@agusti_oliveres

I think you should try another way.

On my example, (image attached), the blue rectangle that you see (it is the header) is not a shape, but an image.

This means to have a header, create a background image on PowerPoint 

-add a grey rectangle shape on a white slide on PowerPoint, 

-record as JPG or PNG

-import on Power BI Desktop

-add it to the page background (see image)

This is the best solution that I know if you don't want it to pop to the front

Does it help ?

Best regards,

Augustin

[Anonymous]

Hello Augustin,

I was trying to do the same thing but not able to replicate the same. Could you please help me out? 

[agusti_oliveres]

Thank you! It solves my problem.

[BiBra]

Currently it is not possible to makes shapes "inactive" a feature really missed! However there is the solution to create an image with the grey rectangle, and insert it as the pages background. This can be easily achieved in eg. power point.