Add Permission Control for "Add a Field" in Visual Personalization

[lonemanemir]

Description:

The “Allow report readers to personalize visuals” feature in Power BI is highly valuable for enhancing user experience by enabling interactive customization. However, when this feature is enabled, users are granted the ability to use the “Add a field” option—allowing them to insert unused fields from the data model into visualizations.

Need:

In many enterprise reporting scenarios, it is crucial to limit users' personalization capabilities to predefined fields only. While actions such as changing axes, sorting, or selecting existing fields are acceptable, allowing users to add new fields can break the intended structure of the visual or lead to misinterpretation of data.

Suggestion:

Introduce a separate permission or toggle under the visual personalization setting that controls the “Add a field” functionality. For example:

Personalization: Enabled

Add new fields: Disabled / Enabled

This would give report authors more granular control over what aspects of a visual can be modified, while still empowering users with some level of interactivity.

Benefit:

Such a setting would help maintain data integrity and consistency across reports—especially in governed, standardized reporting environments—while still supporting interactive exploration within clearly defined boundaries.