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.

[msherline]

Turning off the preview because it does not work on text boxes - I need to remove the header icon to meet our deployment standards.

Also experienced formatting "On object" disappearing. More specifically, this happened on a table after I expanded the formatting pane on the side and then closed it. The only way for me to open formatting again was to click on another visual, expand the "formatting on object" to the side pane, and then click back on the table again. The formatting pane persisted on the side pane and the formatting "on object" did not return on the table. 

Thanks- I appreciate this space to give feedback. 

[RosieL]

Hello - could you share more details on the disappearing you're seeing? You should be able to enter "format mode" which will give you on-object subselection regions by either right clicking or double clicking on any visual type. Perhaps a gif or screenshot of what you're experiencing will help us better understand the issue. Thanks

[storphid]

Very confusing.  Please return it to the way it was, or include an option to use the existing pane structure.

[EwanT]

Hi storphid,

Could you let us know which parts are confusing for you? That helps use what updates we should be working on in the future

Please stay tuned for our June update. We are incorporating feedback for the pane structure

[sphillips-analy]

Having the Data pane available on the right would majorly help; its move to the On-Object is challenging from an old-way versus new-way of the development experience. User toggle for showing Panes invidually versus the new "pinned (small icon)" style would be nice. Also really enjoy the updated bubble corners for re-sizing visuals.

[EwanT]

Hi sphillips-analy, 

Please stay tuned for our June update. There should be options you are looking for by then. Glad you are finding the bubble corners for re-sizing helpful 

[MartinMason]

It's probably me but where'd the ability go to define page drill through fields? Looked and couldn't find them so disabled the feature, made my drill through changes, and them re-enabled the feature.

[kahnailee]

Solved: Preview - On-object interaction: Where's the Drill... - Microsoft Power BI Community

[blake_leblanc]

Thank you for linking, I was wondering the same thing!

[gavinphdata]

Not sure if this is helpful feedback but in general not a huge fan at all of the new feature - it drastically reduces the speed of development. 
If however the plan is to keep it please make it an option and create the ability to pin the different views (selection/bookmark/data/format etc) so that we can see multiple of them at a time.

I ran into an issue today where I was trying to update 2 bookmarks with selected visuals only and it was extremely difficult because I didnt have the ability to select the visuals within a group in the selection view and needed to do it on the cavnas view instead.

Happy to meet and show you how this worked/the impact it had. 

[gavinphdata]

I'm doubling back to this post to try and plea with the Microsoft team to completey abandon this idea, or at least have the ability to turn it off. I appreciate innovation and progresss but this is just truly terrible and there appears to be consensus as there isn't a single bit of positive feedback here. 

I understand that this may have cost the product team considerable time and money but that isn't a reason to propagate bad ideas or ideas that just didn't work. 

Delete it.  

[D_M]

The first thing I noticed as well in a very similar scenario!

You can get the top-level panes to display next to each other, but it requires additional clicks (not good UI) to access the 'feature', as shown below:

The problem I have with this new 'option' is that it's not a default setting we can at least control (in terms of the general UI behaviour), and if you've set up all of your panes and then accidentally click on the wrong object/icon, it will immediately revert back to single pane only (save the Filter).

If we could implement the 'Open in new pane' item as a permanent preference in the main settings (or in any way that would make it permanent/persistent in the application generally), that would go a long way to solving multiple issues with this new UI concept, but currently it feels like a somewhat fragile/temporary workaround rather than a robust option.

[jimbob2285]

It feels like the feedback can be split into two distinct areas:

1) The functionality of the new feature

2) The original functionality that's been removed while it's turned on

Turning on the new feature shoud retain all the original functionality as well, so that it adds to the user experience, rather than just changing it... It seems that's why most people are turning it off as fast they're turning it on, without truely giving it a chance, because they prefer the old way... Which is quite normal... You might try mayo on your chips, but you'd still want a bit of ketchup.. at least the first few times

[GaryC]

Knowing how users resist change, I did give it what I consider a decent try. I fought with it several days, forcing myself to explore and work with the new interface. In the end, I prefer the more efficient option (for me) of having all my desired panes open at once.

[visheshjain]

Hi @RosieL,

Been playing with the On-object Interaction for a while now and it breaks my heart to say that I am not a fan of the feature so far.

Having worked with PBI for over 6 years now, we have gotten used to the formatting pane being on the side and searching things in the pane itself.

I'd prefer having the flexibility to change the colors of the every data point, more or less like you can change the color of every cell in Excel.

Fomatting the table visual and matrix visual, still manages to be the most time consuming part of designing a dashboard.

Hoping to see the changes soon.

Thank you!

Vishesh Jain

[nelsonmartins]

I like it... just one thing that i dont like is that options on the side of the object (like choose graphic) it stay over (in front) the DAX formula box when when you expand it. Probably a bug that will be fix... but ya just telling ;).... but i like it 

[cmcquaid]

After trying to work for hours with the position of the new visualization pane I turned it off. I'm fine with the panes icons in a veritical column, but build visualiztions and format should also stay visible as an icon to select on the right with the other icon selections, not next to the visualizations moving around as you add and re-size visualizations and trying to find it everytime I need it - wastes a lot time, easier to just go to the right and click on it.

[hmaldo]

I really do not like this change.  There are some nice things about it, but not being able to easily see the visual type when I click on an object like before is not great.  I also don't like the "on object" approach to adding/changing data in a visual.  It is going to take me forever to do what was quick to do before.  Please make this OPTIONAL and do not make it something that will be forced after preview.

[GaryC]

I agree with making the fetaure OPTIONAL. Give users the choice.

[TrevorC]

Very interesting.

I really like that I can edit the formatting of items in a visual while on the visual. Very convenient.

Not sure if these were mentioned but I would like to see the following:

• A quicker way to minimize the panes. Currently, I have to right click then select a choice. I think that the icons similar to those used on an application would work well for this.
• When a visual is selected on the canvas then the type should be highlighted in the ribbon.

Thank you for all the cool features that you folks keep adding.

[TrevorC]

One thing I just noticed is that it is more difficult to compare the configurations of differrent visuals with. I think the best aproach is to have the panes similar to the way they were and have the object editing functionality. 

I find the previous layout mor eintuitive.