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messerjc
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6 years ago

Jan 2020 Power BI Report Server - paginated report rendering issues?

I think we might be running into some version drift issues between the SSDT rendering engine vs PBIRS's rendering engine, and I'm curious if anyone else is seeing something similar? We develop our pa...
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d_gosbell
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6 years ago

I'm seeing the same dotted "selection box" when clicking on report elements. My guess is that these are implemented in the report portal for accessibility reasons. You should find that you can use the tab key to navigate around on these elements. These will be added to the portal view so that people that cannot use a mouse and/or keyboard and have to use other input devices.

 

The default browser output has always had very minor variations between the preview and the various browsers. There are minor variations in the way the various browsers implement their layout engines, it's almost impossible to have html display identically across different browsers (and the preview window is most likely just an embedded browser of some sort, so probably some old version of the IE engine)

 

I don't believe the Power BI Desktop issue is the same thing, that was a static line they added to indicate the canvas boundary.

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    messerjc
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    6 years ago

    Thanks for the response. 🙂  That makes sense to a degree, but if anyone finds an option to disable it I'd think we'd prefer to go that route. I'll have to try navigating around the elements via keyboard more and see how it behaves. That said, there does seem to be an issue with with drift between what we're able to develop in Visual Studio w/ SSDT and how the report ends up displaying on the server, so that's not great. It's a growing pet peeve of mine that the toolchain from paginated reports to Power BI reports is so increasingly different, and because of other company decisions we're unlikely to be in a position to use the PBI Service, so it may end up driving us into a different platform down the road. Blech. Lots of change going on in the industry...as always!