Disable/hide visual border on hover

[vanesferns_19]

Disable/hide visual borders when hovered over, atleast in full screen mode. It makes the UI look pretty untidy.

[nishalit]

Back in July, we shipped a completely new visual header that lets you disable per visual some or all the various options and doesn't take up space on the page. You can read the details on our blog: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-july-2018-feature-summary/#visualHeader

[fbcideas_migusr]

Wow! I suggested similar feature yesterday. Was redirected to this post. I see there are many posts that are begging for this feature. Why is MS BI team not responding or even acknowledging?

[chesterelizondo]

agreed. makes navigation between elements problematic. Even aesthetic objects (lines/rectangles) have these boarders...

[gordon_egar1]

Need this badly. If you could enable in design mode like MS Access that would be a huge win!

[pbiideas1]

I agree that this is untidy and creates a poor user experience. However, I don't want to have to turn this off or on for every element. These borders should only be visible in Edit mode in the Power BI service. In View mode, I would expect this to behave the same as embedding. I've had clients specifically avoid the Power BI service because they don't feel the final reports feel polished with all the pop up containers - they feel like it's an edit/backend view rather than an end-user facing view.

[MuqadderIqbal]

I went to a local PBI session hosted by Microsoft and I mentioned this same problem to the Project Manager (Msft Representative). He laughed it off as if this wasn't even worth discussing about! Let me give you a bit of a context: I come from a core DW/BI background with more than a decade architecting and implementing Business Intelligence and reporting solutions using SharePoint to custom .Net to SSRS/PBI/Tableau. Every single company I have worked with has been (coincidently) a Microsoft shop. We even provided BI services for Microsoft itself! I was on the team of vendor service providers that dogfooded SQL Server 2005 back when it was just a codename (Yukon). All of this is to convey that people like myself who work with customers out there leveraging Microsoft's BI toolset know a thing or two about what the actual users want. As trivial as it may sound, the aesthetics of a BI solution matter when our company delivers such rich dashboards to their external clients (Quarterly Performance reports in finance/investment management industry). And the disregard from that rep about on-field customer feedback was very unpleasant. Now that I see others reporting this issue as well, I'm joining their voices again and ask PBI team to please consider this as a priority item to at least take under consideration. There is a reason companies are willing to make investments into very expensive competing tools and professional looking aesthetics is an emerging theme among the userbase I have worked with thus far. Upvoted this already!

[gustafedner]

Sam, really sad to hear that this is the way Microsoft handles issues. Laughing off aesthetics when in the field of data visualization really shows a a lack off understanding the users. It has very little to do with what looks pretty, rather than presenting the information in the clearest way. Distracting boxes with no purpose is definitely such a distracting element. Also, when selling in a new solution like PBI (internally or externally), presenting something that actually looks and feels better and more modern than what the customer has access to today can very well be what makes it or breaks it when the end-user (who might not be a development engineer) is the decision maker. Please PBI team, let ut at least choose to make our reports look professional!

[mikeconstable]

This is definitely a missing option for interactive reports using Power BI. I thought I had overlooked an option, disappointed to find it is not there. It has a detrimental impact on otherwise professional looking reports.

[fbcideas_migusr]

I think this would be a fantastic option to have. As was mentioned below, sometimes it does not make sense to have the border on hover e.g. when a shape is inserted. Other examples would be on a slicer, I only want to select the buttons, I have no need for a box allowing me to turn on Focus Mode. Implementing this would make the final end product to the user even more polished

[jmwilliams83]

Please Microsoft add this with the next update, those boxes on hovering are so annoying. Its the only reason I am still using Tableau versus Power BI.