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.

[Severofm]

Excellent considerations.

[jimbob2285]

Well said, come on MS, what about some basic features that are still missing on visuals:

- Freeze panes on a table

- Drill through on a multi row card

- A better guage visual with multiple ranges

- The ability to fix the slicer type (as say between) when using 'Show values on selected field'

Just focus on the visuals, that's where you're falling behind the competition.  You're relying on the easy transition from Excel to Power BI with people's existing license agreements, rather than genuinely trying to compete in the market space

[QC]

Second this.

The MS person who decided down this path has definitely NOT used PBI on a daily basis. Knowing how large corporation works, it is hardly a surprise, just profoundly SAD for the community. 

There are many useful features the community asked for over years, very few got implemented. Instead, MS happily chose to waste 1 year of development time on something everyone hates, and no one asked for.  

[Severofm]

I completely agree, development time could be spent on improvements to the current one that would be welcome, and not on a new one that is totally hated by the majority of developers.

[wangfeng9988333]

So far, this is one of the best to address this horrible issue, which makes every real developer so worried about it. 

[foodd]

@ctappan, thank you for this.

[BI-Geniuz]

• What changes would you like to see?
  That this one doesn't leave the preview and never become a standard
• If you turned off the preview switch, why?
  The orientation of the GUI should not be tempered with
• Any suggestions for addititional settings or capabilities?
  Please leave it as is. We're adjusted to the look and feel as it is right now

[MikkoP]

So far I've found this feature very clumsy to use. I'm constantly lost when trying to add new fields to my visuals etc. so eventually I decided to turn the preview feature off again.

In my opinion this is a huge step down from the original way things worked and I really hope it doesn't become the new default.

[Severofm]

I also hope.

[foresightbi]

Sentiments of EXCEL are horrible!!!! Power BI Desktop is not a replacement of Excel and frankly the clunky means of engaging with data in charting and pivots there should not propagate over to Power BI Desktop too!!

PLEASE DO NOT SHIP THIS AS ON BY DEFAULT AND PLEASE DON'T STOP ENHANCING AND OPTIMIZING THE EXISTING INTERFACE AND LAYOUT 😊 (bold CAPS is not to yell, but to respectfully exclaim).  If you have a legitimate base of your customers who wants this style of interaction, so be it ... but I think it's clear and apparent that there is a substantial base of customers who do not like it at all!!!

[Severofm]

We completely agree.

[adegrno]

To be honest, flat out a very bad move - who thought of this way of doing things? With this new feature, it requires a lot of unnescessary clicks - please keep it the way it was. I have turned it off.

[wangfeng9988333]

As a Power BI consultant, I work with client's reports daily. I have turned off it four times, it wastes so much of my time. As long as the option is there for you to choose if it is there, I'm okay. But if our current feature is gone, instead of this new one, then for me personally, I would probably switch to another visualization tools.

[Severofm]

I share your thoughts and I believe that, based on the comments, 99.9% of powerbi developers do too.

[foodd]

Agree 100%.   This is a terrible idea.

[Timo1980]

not a fan of the feature. I work as a consultant and I use PBI alot with clients to help them moving towards advanced analytics. This means that I build quite a lot of reports and dashboards. The new features makes it really cumbersome to quickly build and change visuals. Too many clicks, and quite often I need to add back the panes. Its a real hassle. I have turned it off as it tripled my time spent with generating reports. As long as the option is there for you to choose if its there, i'm happy. But if that feature is gone, then for me personally I would problably switch to another visualization tool.

[Anonymous]

Hi

 
The On-Object Interaction is not working when I click OK in the options dialog box. The page remains grey.

Could you please show a solution for this?

[Severofm]

I also completely agree, I like some things implemented, but overall it's not productive at all.

[Anonymous]

Not a fan at all, really oversimplifying it to the point that it makes it difficult to do anything with any sort of detail. Please keep the option to switch off. It's a good idea to try to simplify PBI as a front end tool but it doesn't really lend itself to the report developer experience.

[iBusinessBI]

The panes keep on disappearing.

Too many clicks in the new experience.

Turned off. Fourth month in a row....

[acamacho13]

Hi with the object oriented interface i cannot enable "Show values of selected filed" whith a slicer, I use this with a parameter field to select which fields will be presented on the matrix that i have.