Share your thoughts on the new On-Object Interaction feature (preview)

[RosieL]

Hit Reply to tell us what you think about the new On-Object Interaction feature so we can continue to improve.

For example:

• What changes would you like to see?
• If you turned off the preview switch, why?
• Any suggestions for addititional settings or capabilities?

Thanks,

-Power BI team

To read more about the feature, see the announcement in the Power BI Product Blog or our documentation on how to Use on-object interaction

FAQs:

• Q: How can I open multiple panes at once?
  • A: You can CTRL + click or right click on the unselected pane you wish to open and choose "Open in new pane"
• Q: Where did aggregations move to?
  • A: It's still on right click of a field, or you can use the new flyout aggregations dropdown while choosing or swapping a field.
• Q: Where did drillthrough and tooltip page setup move to?
  • A: Drillthrough is now in the page settings of the format pane under Page Information > Page type > Drillthrough or Tooltip.

[bjorn99_]

First of all I love the new feature and hope I can enable it again as soon as possible!

I work a lot with grouped selections for aesthetics reasons, think of slicers in a shape, all slicers grouped, cards on visuals etc.

Without the preview feature enabled I was able to select a group and adjust the size of all the items in a group at once. With the feature enabled I can’t adjust the size of a group and have to size all items individually, which results in odd ratios.

Hope you guys can fix this issue in the release for April!

[stefanomagnasco]

Hi,

Not sure if this question has already been asked (I can't find it in the thread), but I have a question about the new on-object interaction, specifically for the table visual: where is the drill-through fields well?

I want to set up a drill-through table in my report, but I can't seem to find where to add drill-through fields. I had to switch off the preview feature to do that.

Can you please direct me to the right place?

Thanks!

Stefano

[Adnan_Sheikh]

Hi, 
Love the new update
Can we please have checkbox when selecting columns for a visual ?
it would be great.

Currently we have to select one column then again do add field and select another column..

[RosieL]

Drillthrough set up moved to the page settings, you can see this part of the blog post for more details

[JoeX]

Can you please show where this is after turning on the on-object interaction setting? It appears to be only visible when on-object interaction is off. 

[JuanIArana]

If a visual is selected and open DAX editor you can see this icons overlayed.

Good work any way, love this new feature.

Juan

[avatorl]

See https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/New-Format-pane-issues/idc-p/3135787/highlight/true#M92845

[RosieL]

Thank you for this feedback.

• Issue #1 is already fixed, coming in April release 🙂
• Issue #2  on the 1 pane no longer showing the pane switcher is by design, inspired by how Office also handles single vs. multiple panes. 
• Issue #3 makes sense and is fair feedback also raised here in an earlier comment. We'll look at how we can incorporate saving pane states across reports. 
• Issue #4 and #5 will take back to the team to evaluate
• Issue #6 - already have a design to fix, working this into our backlog to address.

[Benjamin_P]

Every Time I close and open the Power BI Desktop App I have to set the panes visible again in the View register. Is this normal behaviour? I would prefer if the App would remember which panes to show on the right.

[RosieL]

Unfortunately yes, we do not currently save the pane states across reports. This is a great suggestion though! We'll look at how we can incorporate this feedback in upcoming releases.

[Arielcchy]

I'm using drill through after switching to On-Object.

I cannot delete drill through from item. The deleted item comes back everytime the format pane switch away...

Is there any way to solve this issue?

[RosieL]

Hello Arielcchy - apologies you're running into this. We already have a fix on it's way for December release.

[V-V]

With old version I was able to create sparklines in a table or matrix, but I cannot find this feature when On-Object Interaction is enabled. Is this feature hidden somewhere?

[RosieL]

If you're trying to add a sparkline through the right click menu that should still be available, make sure you're right clicking on the field name. You can also add a sparkline through the ribbon via Insert > "Add a sparkline"

[ctappan]

The non-preview version has right-click as an option, but you can access the same options with the very clear arrow icon next to the field name. In On-Object, the field name has an arrow only with aggregation options, and you have to know to right click to access everything else. And the Insert > Add a sparkline in the Ribbon is also only going to be found if you've been trained. It's actually completely counterintuitive to have that in the ribbon unless you've already highlighted a field. 

UIs that have to be explained by the designers are failing as UIs. 

[Bastiaanw]

Hi There,

I'm trying the new features, but ran into my first problem - docking the view (selection pane, bookmarks, slicer sync) seems great because it saves space, however having the ability to have more than one open at a time is handy.

When creating bookmarks, I have the bookmarks as well as the selection pane open - this makes it easy to select visuals to create bookmarks with.

[Rudz]

@Bastiaanw You can do it, but it doesn't show up where you would expect it. Right click the button on the nav bar and select Open in new pane.

@RosieL 

I would love to see panes work like they do in Office:

Also the Performance analyzer button does not show highlighted when opened like the other panes do:

And PLEASE put them in the same order on the nav bar as the toolbar:

But again, I love these new panes!!!!!!!!!

[RosieL]

Thank you @Rudz for the help answering @Bastiaanw 's original question.

We're working on all 3 of these improvements! Already fixed #2 for April 🙂 

[_tan_]

Took a while to get used to adding data using the new on-object context menu, but once I did it was pretty neat. Loved the Data Options button especially to just swap out columns instead of having to remove column -> add new column -> drag it back to removed column's original spot. 

Not sure if this is the default, but when I enabled the feature it hid my Data pane. Spent a while to locate it in the View tab.

Might be out of scope but if the ultimate goal is to make more space on-screen while having most things work with the minimum number of panes, I would suggest adding features to the Filter pane as well. Wouldn't have needed to open up the Data pane if the ellipsis could do more than sorting. 

[RosieL]

Ah, it should not have hid your data pane automatically, that might be a bug if you want to describe the steps you took we can take a closer look.

Thanks for the suggestion! Could you elaborate a bit more on what else would you expect in the filter pane?

[JoseMiranda]

Hello RosieL,

After testing the On-Object Interaction I have a suggestion:

Theres a bug with the DAX. If I click on a visual thats below the DAX pane and see data menu and then try to open the field on DAX to see the code, the data/visual menu will be in front of the DAX pane.

Besides that, a really cool idea would be to click on the field and that action open the DAX to show the code, otherwise we always need to open the data pane and search for the field it isn't too practical.

I hope you can do these improvements in the following updates. Congrats on the idea.

Thanks for the attention.