Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

[pedro8]

I think this is a must not only for Power BI designers (the online one and the desktop one), but also the Power View designers (both SharePoint and Excel). We need the ability to be able to align, resize and distribute components in a dashboard/sheet. I mean the controls we normally find with office tools such as: * Alignment: Align left, right, top, bottom, centre, middle. Distribute horizontally and vertically. Snap to grid, view gridlines, set gridlines, etc. * Positioning: Being able to see and specify x and y coordinates for objects. * Sizing: Specify height and width values. I feel these requirements are long overdue since the initial release of Power View years ago.

[filip9]

Another vote in favor of this, and for on-screen guides to behave the way they do in PowerPoint to aid positioning, alignment and sizing.

[9725r]

The ability of your end user to bring "data to life", would include the basic functionality to; Alignment, Positioning, Size as described. Seriously, you have people stating they are using POST IT notes as alignment tools. I believe this should be viewed as a "bug" not a enhancement!

[Raimana_Champs]

Authoring reports and not being able to align/resize the visualizations is very very frustrating. A behavior like PowerPoint would be optimal.

[CONORD]

Hi Team, Is this in progress? Report formatting is currently a major pain point for effective story telling. Currently our team is resorting post it notes on the screen to align visualizations. Event a grid option would be extremely helpful.

[omar_saka]

It's been 9 months since the answer from you guys. C'mon guys, it's essential to be able to align charts. Can't play around with this when you show customers live dashboarding/reporting.

[V-SEMOUR]

In addition, it would be great if we could use features as "send to back"/"bring to front" when adding shapes to the reports.

[SCG]

As Sergio mentioned, along with all the above being able to bring shapes/report elements to the front or send to the back would be most useful.

[adam_hatak]

Totally agree! Examples provided in PowerBI are perfectly adjusted, aligned. How did you managed to do this? Manually? I don't think so... Looking forward for such improvment.

[pranay_pingle]

hopefully, gets implemented by the next release!

[pedro8]

Funny that I forgot to mention the bring to front/send to back in my feature request (I meant to -- I just forgot) and yet this was the *FIRST* bit that Microsoft added to Power BI in Q4/2015. 😉