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.

[nordicandreas]

It is confusing that a lot of the buttons have the enabled border around them, even when I am not using them. E.g. the Bookmarks button.

[not_sure]

Hi,

The side panel is very useful, small & with the single click open & close but it would be great if the filter pane could be added as well, as this isn't needed all the time, it wastes space, but is needed consistantly as the other objects in the panel do.
The suggest a visual pop up on charts, however, is insanely irritating and gets in the way constantly. It can be useful but it would be better suited out of the way on one of the tabs or a side add on, so it doesn't interupt other work.
If people find the suggestion pop-up useful on the chart and want to keep it, please, please, please, have something in the options, so you can use one and not the other.

[csmicsun]

This is a huge improvement to Power BI. Makes it much easier to customize visuals.

[SalvaC]

I noticed a change in the feature.

Until now, it was possible to enlarge the list of fields to accommodate long fields or measures.

This is no longer possible.

Why has this essential feature been removed?

Now it is cumbersome and slow to work with.

Please reactivate this feature.

Thank you

Kind regards

Salvatore

[jeroendekk]

I am so annoyed that this feature has been in preview limbo for 2 years and not much has changed.

Either release in in GA or scrap it. What could be taking so long. 

I love the feature btw. Really usefull especially for new users, but I wont' teach my students (new users often) it because the feature might be scrapped.

The whole power bi team has been unable to finish anything for the last years. Everything is in preview. What we actually got. Field parameters after 4 years in preview.

If it isnt called copilot (that like 10% of all users can actually use) - Microsoft leadership does not care.

[MattHogan]

The pop-up is often in the way.  Panes on the right seem to appear and disappear unexpectedly.  I tried to get used to this, but it's slowing me down too much; I'm turning it off.

BTW, I've taught Power BI to a lot of people.  I've never heard anyone say it's hard to use or they can't find basic things like the panes on the right.

[dxwalker]

With the bar at the top of each visual, I cannot easily position the visual where it needs to go. This is particularly annoying for text boxes that need to be at the top of the screen.

[Le_Sage]

Hello.
I LOVE the right column that allows switching between panels, and I would have a hard time doing without it.
However, I HATE the interaction PopUp on the object! Why on earth this behavior? Why not just have buttons without PopUp? And above all, why link them? You need to separate these two features because they have absolutely nothing to do with each other, or at least allow disabling that cursed pop-up!
Thank you in advance for allowing us to choose.

[TungDo_DEEPC]

It seems the ability to resize a group of report objects while maintaining their relative order and size is not possible with On-object editing mode, or am I missing something?

[bhalicki]

Tried it for 30 minutes just recently, turned it straight back off again.

[mopowerbi]

It looks like the ability to summarized by % or grand total / row total is missing.  That would be a feature I would like to see added back.

[GideonM]

That feature is there, but it's not under the Data Options button. You have to right-click on the field in the field well. 

[GideonMitchell]

Largely I find On-Object Interaction a really annoying and unnecessary feature.

It creates extra clicks without added value, on small laptop screens, which many of my students use, the extra fly-out panels duplicate already visible features and take up valuable screen space, and it adds a level of extra complexity for no reason that I can discern. Often, when I am teaching courses on Power BI, the students get irritated with it, complain and I have to show them how to turn the feature off, or risk it depressing my evaluation scores.

Perhaps I am missing the point, but I'm afraid I can't see anything positive about this feature at all. Please, please don't make it permanent!

[JohnF1966]

Will there be anymore updates coming soon for On-Object Interactions?

It seems like this has been forgotten.

[Anonymous]

If I import the Deneb Visual.  I am not getting Any options to Customise the Visual now.  

[thefarside]

I go back and forth on enabling this feature due to pros and cons (many already mentioned in previous comments).

Pros:

• Pane Manager speeds up report development

Cons:

• That "Suggested Visuals" popup every time I add or edit a visual is SO annoying! It covers what I'm trying to see and unnessary, we have a Visualizations pane.
  • It adds more clicks, I just automatically click close every time it pops up.

Future Improvements:

• From most comments, it appears that developers like the Pane Manager. Spin off this feature as a seperate preview feature to enable/disable.
  • Add functionality to the Pane Manager, such as detachable/floating panels that I can have on any screen or alt+tab to.

[ashleyfiore]

1. There should be a quick way to turn off on object edits - as an EU it us hard to see the entire report with this enabled

2. There is no way to test visual interactions with this feature enabled

3. Having to select the elements on the right (build, format, data etc) with each visual is annoying they should all stay visable until you hide them

4. Resizing on grouped visuals is no longer working and it is very difucult to select an individual visual within the group

5. The on object edit in the dialogue box needs to be adjustable - it is too small

[bdarbo78]

I concur with @maggiepruden. The bar on the right to switch between panes and having only one pane open at a time is the most useful improvement over the legacy UI. I would prefer to the have the option "Show only one active pane" set to on by default : I see many beginners struggling with 3+ panes open before someone eventually shows them the option.
I find the on-object format button totally useless. Yet, I got used to the on-object build pane, i.e. starting by clicking in the field well to pick a field as opposed to drag fields from the data pane. I leave the format pane open on the right and use the on-object build pane for most of the design. This way I only occasionaly need to open another pane.

[maggiepruden]

I love the buttons on right side to open the separate Data/Build/Format/Sync Slicer panes. I also love the ability to keep a format pane open while switching between visuals to compare settings. It makes fine-tuning formats and ensuring consistency so much quicker.

However, I DETEST the buttons hovering on top of my visuals wanting to give me alternate ways to create and format the visual. They are hiding things I need to see and get to, and I've found no way to get rid of them without losing the feature above. 

Please make these separately-controlled features, as they likely appeal to different groups of users. 

[Mardurolla]

The worst feature or lack thereof is the INability to see the used columns/DAX Measures marked with a green tick. The second worst, or possiby even worse, is the inability to click and drag said columns/Measures into or up and down the Rows, Columns and Values boxes. if the "modern/on-object" is made the default UI, PLEASE, please DO NOT SWITCH OFF the "Classic View". The following is a screen capture in the "Classic [non-modern] View". Please keep the click and dragging and the green ticks of used columns/Measures.