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.

[QC]

Coudn't agree more! Same thoughts. The new UI is hugely counter-productive for any serious business user. One-click adding data in the past now becomes several clicks and sorting through clustered menu.

[gogrizz]

Do not like this.  I turned it off.   The visualization toolbar is too important to put it into a pop-up.

[MartenLiebster]

Adding a Date column to a table - don't see an option to add just the date value, it just does hierarchy.  If I switch off On Object, there is an option to chose which format to add.

[KenLoewen]

I've switched the preview feature back off as I find on-object difficult to work with as the width of the columns added to the visual does not well support longer column names. Off-object better uses the available screen real estate without obscuring other objects on the canvas and allows for adjusting the width of the fieldnames. Also, the on-object wastes a lot of space by making the objects taller and resulting in a lot more scrolling.

[loxam98581]

Worst addition to PBI so far! Give us the option to disable this or use the old method. Took me 15 minutes to figure out where my **bleep** visualisations went

[ElenaN]

Hello,

I was trying this new functionality and i ran into an issue. While working on the formatting of a table i added a conditional formmating on one of the columns of the table that returned an error. However, after this point i actually could not use my table anymore as the visual returned 'Can't display visual. See details' and on the Format pane i get 'Something's wrong with the visual. Please fix the error to user formatting options'. Which i would like to fix if only i could only get to the options to change the fomula in the conditional formatting.

I deleted the column and restarted just to fix the issue.

Best regards,

EN

[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.