It would be great to be able to lock the elements in the desktop version so that when using the scroll bars (on a slicer) that the control does not lift off the page and be dragged after I have found the items I wanted to tick. In fact being able to lock the elements down so that they cannot be moved (from maybe a Top left corner anchor point) would be better all round
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- nishalitNew MemberWe released this feature in the November update of Power BI Desktop! Learn more in the blog post: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-november-2017-feature-summary/#lock
- mstefancikAdvocate IVBasic behaviour. I would also require lock elements. You can create compelling reports with custom background image, overlapping charts. But when you need to interact with the report it is disaster. Items step to the front. When you click on the background it hides all other charts. It is really frustrating as you have to know where to click in the report...
- aristiguietaAdvocate IThis idea comes over and over with different titles. from asking for a presentation view to pin tiles. good to know there is wide spread interest
- damien_dent2New MemberConcur with Mariam, require ability to lock all elements on charts to stop users unfamiliar with dashboards and web-reports interacting.. I know there is currently the ability to stop filtering/ interaction with other charts and filters but this has to be done individually, which is time consuming.. A quick Lock on the offending Chart would suffice (However, must allow data update :) )
- v-roashlNew MemberHoping that this is still under review. I spent a lot of time making everything look exactly how I want it to. It would be a shame if someone were to come along and accidentally scramble things around.
- James_HannanNew MemberAt the very least, they could make it so you can only drag items by their titlebar thing. Like every other element in every other piece of software ever
- harry_leboeuf4New MemberNick, It would be great that once somebody of the PBI team commented its also followed. I Mean, in July 2016 you posted that it would be discussed on the next sprint. Even if the news is 'bad' would be great to have some news, now we don't know anythign on this interesting idea ... Same happens on other ideas .....
- hkaaltoNew MemberWhile at it, please make it so that when locked, the element cannot be DELETED (or at least put some confirmation in the before deletion). Accidental deletion of an element does happen in a variety on scenarios (e.g. deleting elements which overlap, trying to delete written input from a visualization and accidentally delete the whole visualization etc.).
- MuqadderIqbalAdvocate IIIs anyone from PBI/Msft team still tracking this item? Looks like it's been a while and we haven't heard anything. I know that the latest version of PBI Desktop allows you to enable the grid and you can snap your visual items to the grid. I'm wondering if that's how the PBI team decided to deliver this functionality. Or at least tell us if this is still in works. Either way is good.
- twalker1New Memberagreed with everyone (above) and below. Lock or pin elements to the page so it won't accidentally move, especially with laptop trackpad, trying to click a checkbox!
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