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Black border appears around random visuals
A border appears around a random visual when a report page is opened. The screenshot below illustrates a which appears around an icon visual. I've also seen the same behaviour around slicers as well. The border disappears when the focus is changed to another visual or part of a report.
Hi， Anonymous
As far as I know, the issue has been confirmed internally as a known issue. ICM ID: 347527225.ETA_for_Fix: 12/31/2022
Power BI users may see black border appearing for some visuals in Power BI service. More details: When we select report page to other page in “Reading view” , it always positions to a random visual and shows a black border for the visual.It's intermittent and no workaround was found. Engineers are working on the fix.
Please be patient to wait for fixing.
Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Eason
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Hi， Anonymous
As far as I know, the issue has been confirmed internally as a known issue. ICM ID: 347527225.ETA_for_Fix: 12/31/2022
Power BI users may see black border appearing for some visuals in Power BI service. More details: When we select report page to other page in “Reading view” , it always positions to a random visual and shows a black border for the visual.It's intermittent and no workaround was found. Engineers are working on the fix.
Please be patient to wait for fixing.
Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ EasonHi, v-easonf-msft
As I previously posted, the behavior does not seems to be random. I managed to control which visual is bordered simply by changing the layering of the visuals.
The bordered visual is, as far as I know, the one at the top layer.
Cheers.
Hi.
Turns out it is not random. You can check this by editing a report page. Just Ctrl+x then Ctrl+v any visual, save the report and then reopen the page. The visual you just pasted will be the one 'bordered'.
It seem that the 'top' visual (located at the front layer of the page) is auto selected when page is opened.
Cheers.
Ps: actually, that is not always the case though. I managed to do this with some of my reports, but not with all of them. Don't know why.
Ps2: In fact, the issue is related to ordering of the visuals. I wasn't able to reproduce the procedure above within PBI service (maybe because of refresh time, or whatever) but, by editing a report on desktop and reuploading the pbix file to the service, it worked. It's not a solution, but you can at least control which visual will be bordered, until MS fix come along.
For me, it looks like the last visual added is effected by the black border, regardless of layer order. Therefore, just add a small box, then layer behind a larger visual to hide it. That will be pretty annoying to maintain overtime, but I don't see another option.
The same is happening for my reports.
Same issue.
When clicking on page titles, they randomly get a black border, is if they were "selected".
Same with some visuals on the page (apparently only images/buttons?).
We are seeing this as well on various reports
Hi All
Am seeing this happening as well - noticed it just this week
Hopefully MS fix this behaviour
Telstar
We noticed the same problem yesterday. Black borders randomly appear around visuals.
Hope MS will fix it soon.
I'm experiencing the exact same issue, with it occurring about 2 weeks ago. Hoping PBI team fixes this asap, it's quite disconcerting when these black outlines flash on the screen each time you change tabs, especially when doing presentations / demos in Service.
