Popup visual not scrolling properly after blocking row selection in Power BI

[AnkittM08]

Hi Community,

I’ve created a popup visual in my Power BI report to display detailed transaction information for each item. The popup is triggered by a button — when a user selects a row in a matrix and clicks the button, a table visual appears showing the related details.

However, I’m facing an issue: when users click on any row inside the popup table, all rows get highlighted instead of just the selected ones. To prevent this, I disabled visual interactions for the popup visual and added a transparent shape over it, so users can’t directly select rows.

This workaround works, but it has created another problem — the popup table no longer scrolls properly. When trying to scroll, the entire report page moves instead of the popup table itself. The only way to scroll is by manually dragging the scrollbar at the edge, which isn’t user-friendly.

Has anyone encountered a similar issue or found a better way to disable row selection in a popup visual without breaking the scroll functionality? Any suggestions or design alternatives would be really helpful.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[v-saisrao-msft]

Hi @AnkittM08,

Checking in to see if your issue has been resolved. let us know if you still need any assistance.

Thank you.

[v-saisrao-msft]

Hi @AnkittM08,

Have you had a chance to review the solution we shared by @Praful_Potphode @CPCARDOSO? If the issue persists, feel free to reply so we can help further.

Thank you.

[CPCARDOSO]

Hello AnkittM08,

When you add a transparent shape over the visual, it intercepts click and scroll events. This prevents the user from interacting normally with the visual’s scroll because it captures all mouse events (including scrolling). Power BI does not have a native setting to ‘ignore clicks but allow scrolling’ on an overlaid layer. Try using a Bookmark + Dedicated Page: create a separate page for the popup and use navigation via bookmark. This way, the popup does not need a transparent layer and keeps normal scrolling. Configure the button to navigate to this page with the context of the selected item.

[AnkittM08]

Hi @CPCARDOSO ,

Thank you so much for the valuable suggestion, but the requirement is to show everything on a single page rather than using navigation.

[Praful_Potphode · Accepted solution]

Hi @AnkittM08 

Did you try creating tooltip page?

please follow below links for infromation:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/desktop-tooltips 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qywSdK3qoU&list=PLv2BtOtLblH0AX8q5hHxk7hFNfzEEM_Zv 

https://youtu.be/-toVxN_mN68?si=Qq5Ci36nbL3LYmeS 

https://youtu.be/faMx_m9I1Wk?si=B6RM0K4eid-26jJD 

Please give Kudos or mark it as solution once confirmed.

Thanks and Regards,

Praful

[AnkittM08]

Hi @Praful_Potphode ,

Using a tooltip wasn’t the right approach in this case because I needed to display many columns. That’s why I created a bookmark and used it as a pop-up visual instead.