Better control over the shapes, textbox and images

[tmarkova2]

Please consider adding functionality to give the report author more control of shapes, textboxes and images. This functionality might include grouping, disabling selection, etc. This would enrich the options for organizing data onto the report page and will remove all those unnecessary grey lines and rectangles that the user sees when hovering over the controls

[turtleoncoffee]

This would be really helpful for a more flexible page design. Maybe a FOCUSABLE = [Yes|No] flag in shape elements would do the job.

[henrychr1]

It's maddening when users can click background shapes and they take priority over actually useful objects, like slicers.

[a_gong]

Definitely need this, as I use shapes to make my report look polished. Users keep on selecting the shapes by accident and it is pretty annoying.

[TalAruety]

Agree Makes the report unusable as the end user press the sahpe by mistake , bringing it to front and than calls me annoyed that his slicers are gone

[jjimenez1]

Oh good god, I can not believe this is not implemented yet. It is like the 50% of the expected behaviour of a shape.

[carter]

Any updates? Pretty big issue in my planned deployment when the text overlayed on an action shape is covering the action...

[Juan_Pablo_Larr]

Very necessary. Not many implementations where users would need to manipulate background shapes.

[lmcewen23]

REALLY need this functionality for the report I am building.

[max_wikstrom]

This would also enable report creators to create better UX-designs when for example bulding designs by the use of shapes, text boxes etc. Currently these items are brought to front whenever a user selects the item, and wont go away until it is deselected, which can be pretty frustrating and even cause great designs to fail.

[jonfields]

This is a must have. Not everything in the dashboard needs to be selectable and brought to the front. This makes layering images with visualizations a nightmare.