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vandekr
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undefinedAllow configurable tile height for vertical (single‑column) Tile slicers

Description

When using the native Power BI slicer in Tile style with Vertical orientation and a single column (common for left‑navigation layouts such as Month selectors: Jan–Dec), Power BI forces tiles to vertically stretch and evenly fill the height of the visual.

There is currently no formatting option to control tile/row height, vertical padding, or to prevent this auto‑stretch behavior.

This makes vertical tile slicers unnecessarily tall and wastes report canvas space, even when tile labels are short (e.g., month names).


Impact

  • Prevents compact left‑hand navigation designs using tiles (a very common UI pattern)
  • Forces users to abandon Tile style in favor of List or Dropdown, despite Tile being the preferred UX
  • Makes report layouts harder to standardize and visually inconsistent

Expected Behavior

Vertical tile slicers should allow one of the following:

  • A configurable tile/row height, or
  • An option to disable auto‑stretching to fill container height, allowing content‑driven sizing with scrolling if needed

Actual Behavior

  • Tiles always expand to fill the visual height when Vertical + 1 column is used
  • Resizing the visual only increases tile height
  • No available formatting controls address this behavior

Requested Enhancement

Add a simple formatting control such as:

  • Tile height (px), or
  • “Do not stretch tiles to fill container height” (On/Off)

This would make vertical tile slicers usable for compact navigation scenarios without introducing new visuals.


Why This Matters

This is a layout behavior limitation, not a niche styling request. It affects common scenarios like Month navigation (Jan–Dec) and category selectors, and currently has no acceptable workaround using the native slicer.




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v-achippa
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @vandekr,

 

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Fabric Community.

 

Thank you @lbendlin for the prompt response.

 

As we haven’t heard back from you, we wanted to kindly follow up to check if your issue is resolved? or have you raised this in the ideas forum? If not please raise this in the ideas forum.

 

Thanks and regards,

Anjan Kumar Chippa

Hi @vandekr,

 

As we haven’t heard back from you, we wanted to kindly follow up to check if your issue is resolved? or have you raised this in the ideas forum?

 

Thanks and regards,

Anjan Kumar Chippa

lbendlin
Super User
Super User

If this is important to you please consider voting for an existing idea or raising a new one at https://ideas.fabric.microsoft.com

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