Snap objects to grid different spaces between reports

[Anonymous]

Hi guys,

I'm having a weird problem. I made a report some time ago which had "snap to grip" enabled. In the report I aligned objects with "half" a space apart.

In this new report I'm creating, I have the same option ticked, but it forces me to align objects on "full" spaces apart. When I copy the visual from the full space report to the half space report, I can also align it half a space. So there must be something about the report, not just the visual.

Object aligned "half" a space on the left and top of the page (grey area)

Object aligned a "full" space on the right and bottom of the page (grey area)

Does anyone else experience this problem? How can I fix it so that I can also align half spaces on every new report I create? I'd rather not copy the other report and delete everything just to get the half space alignment working.

Thanks.

[tex628 · Accepted solution]

Are both your tables the same size? From what i can tell the "Space" varies depending on the size of the canvas. 

Br,
J

[Anonymous]

@tex628 Thanks for your message. Both reports are using the same settings for size:
Type: 16:9
Width (greyed out): 1280 pixels
Height (greyed out): 720 pixels

[tex628]

Take your old report, make a new page and turn on gridlines. Compare the grid on your old report with the one on the new.
Is the grid of a different size on the old report or does it actually snap to half a space accoring to the grid? 

[Anonymous]

The gridlines are the same. Visuals actually snap to half the gridlines in my old report. What's even stranger is that I turned on gridlines in my old report, then saved it, closed it, opened it up again, and it too then forced me to use full spaces.

I did the same with my new report and now that's fixed...

This is all very strange, but at least it works now. I think it has indeed something to do with the size of the canvas, but not in terms of page size, but the size of the actual Power BI window. When I maximize my window (I have a 1920x1080 monitor), it does the half spaces. When I make my window smaller, it does the full spaces.

[tex628]

I'm happy it worked out! Resizing the window resizes the grid for me but it still wont let me snap anything to half a space! Sometimes things are just strange 🙂

Br,
J