Conditional Visual Rendering (Show/Hide Visuals Based on DAX Conditions)

[prabhatmaq]

Power BI currently does not support true conditional visual rendering—the ability to show or hide a visual based on a DAX-measured condition.

I attempted to hide a Card visual when a specific business condition was not met, and display it only when the condition was true. However:

• There is no direct “Visible = TRUE/FALSE” property for visuals.

• Bookmarks cannot achieve this, because they require manual selection of which visuals appear in a bookmark, and they cannot dynamically respond to changing filter or DAX conditions.

• Workarounds such as using transparency, layering shapes, or changing text color do not solve the problem, especially for accessibility and report cleanliness.

Proposed Feature

Add a Conditional Visual Rendering option for visuals where users can define a DAX-based rule such as:

IF([MyCondition] = TRUE(), SHOW(), HIDE())

Or in the formatting pane:

Visibility → Conditional formatting → Based on field

This would allow Power BI to dynamically show or hide visuals—including Cards, Tables, Charts, Buttons—based on real-time data conditions.

Impact / Benefits

• Cleaner user experience (hide irrelevant information)

• Eliminates UI clutter when conditions are not met

• Supports advanced guided-analytics scenarios

• Enables more flexible dynamic reporting without needing bookmarks or overly complex workarounds

[mike_honey]

Great idea! In my mind, this needs some UI a bit like conditional formatting, so we can configure tests against field or measure values. If this feature is implemented to only accept true/false values, we will have to code a lot of very specific measures.