New Slicer Visual Eraser and Alert toggle missing

[michaelu1]

Hi, the new Slicer visual has the eraser as part of the Header icons, which is great, except that you can't toggle it..

If you turn Header icons off completly then you can't access the eraser, and if you turn them on then you need to turn off all the individual icons to get just the eraser and you are still stuck with the "alert" icon which also doesn't have a toggle.

If your header icons are off then you get nothing on your slicer as seen here:    

Now if you want to get only the eraser (because I don't want any other icons), I need to turn on "Header Icons" and then set all the individual icons to off as below:

Now my visual looks like this: I have none of the icons on the list and I do have the eraser, but I am also stuck with the alert icon.

The toggles for the alert and eraser icons (which are clearly controlled by the "Header Icon") are missing in this list. As you can see in the last screenshot I now see them both, however, there is no way for me to turn off the alert icon or eraser icon if I should so choose. This is especially frustrating as we don't have the licensing for alerts, yet the alert icon shows on every visual that has icons with no way for me to disable it. 

Note that this issue is only visible when published to the web, on desktop the eraser is visible whether or not the icons are off.

[michaelu1]

On the regular slicer the eraser button is only available when the header is on.

If you turn off the header and try to make a custom title through the title menu then you lose the  eraser.

I know that the new slicer visual fixes that issue by tieing the eraser to the icons, but we need the same thing for the old slicer so that it can be available for other slicer types aside from button.

[Anonymous]

Hi @michaelu1 ,

This alert icon is controlled by Data Activator, it is not a feature of Power BI itself, if you want to disable the alert icon you can contact your organization's Global Administrator to disable it for you or for the entire organization in Power BI Servcie > Admin Portal > Tenant settings.

For the eraser, it's true that there is currently no function to directly control the visibility of that button. If you would like to suggest feature improvements, you may vote the idea and comment here to improve this feature. It is the right place for customers provide feedback about Microsoft Office products . What’s more, if a feedback is high voted there by other customers, it will be promising that Microsoft Product Team will take it into consideration when designing the next version in the future.

Best Regards,
Dino Tao

[michaelu1]

@Anonymous 

I'm sorry to see Microsoft going down this route.

If items are controlled by the Icons then clearly there should be a toggle, telling me that this now needs to be an idea so that it can get lost with all the other highly voted ideas that never get acted on is just a waste of time.

There are plenty of big software companies that enjoy putting out products that are 90% the way there and coudn't care less about the missing pieces that bring it all the way. I thought Microsoft was better then that.