Navigating buttons that but it limits interactive, making visuals buttons visible without hover

[icassiem]

Hi,

I have a scoreboard with many frames, a frame per kpi that has a few visuals

the issue i am having it just gives the user the another view perspective

i want to keep the exec audience to be interactive with the scorecard of expanding and drilldown, The buttons and options are only available when hover over or selecting the visual which my senior wants it to be clear what the possibilities are when galncing the full scorecard hence the buttons which i doint like, yes it help with a different visual which i dont use oftern and this will speed up my scorecard with less visuals

do you have any thoughts on keeping the visual hover buttons and making it clear without hover over the visual  buttons are available etc or any other ideas please and possibly hint what the next level is?

Regards

[v-dineshya]

Hi @icassiem ,

Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Community Forum.

Hi @GilbertQ , @rohit1991 , Thank you for your prompt responses.

Hi @icassiem , In addition to @rohit1991 , @GilbertQ  responses, i am adding similar community thread link which is related to your issue.

Please refer community thread.

Solved: Header Icons always visible (not only hover) withi... - Microsoft Fabric Community

I hope this information helps. Please do let us know if you have any further queries.

Regards,

Dinesh

[rohit1991 · Accepted solution]

Hi @icassiem ,

Right now, Power BI doesn’t let us keep navigation or action buttons always visible “on top” of visuals. The built-in button visibility is either on hover, on click, or tied to bookmarks/selections not persistent across all states. So you’re not missing a secret setting, it’s just the way the platform currently works. You can try to use;

• Dedicated Button Zone: Place navigation buttons in a fixed “header” or sidebar section of your report, separate from main visuals. That way they’re always visible and users never need to guess.
  
  

• Clear Instructions: Sometimes I add a tiny “?” info button or a short text box that explains what the navigation options are, so people don’t get lost.
  
  

• Bookmark Panel or Selection Pane Tricks: With clever use of bookmarks and the selection pane, you can fake some interactions, but it’s not true “button overlays” on visuals.
  
  

• Custom Visuals (for the brave): If you want full control, tools like Deneb or HTML Content visuals from AppSource can sometimes pull off more advanced overlays, but it’s definitely more setup and not always straightforward.

If your user base keeps missing navigation, try color-coding the navigation zone, or use a shape behind the button for extra visibility. It sounds simple but really helps in practice.

[GilbertQ]

Hi @icassiem 

as it stands today, the current visuals you have are limited by design. You could either look for custom visual or create or vote for an idea here https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Ideas/idb-p/fbc_ideas 

[icassiem]

Thank You @v-dineshya , @rohit1991 , @GilbertQ 

I was thinking in the lines of the bookmarks and additional visuals slow up the user interaction on the report and the visuals buttons will decrease 1 kpi from 3 visuals for year, quarter and month to one visual. Because my scorecard as 3 frames per row, each frame consisting of an kpi with a visual but users want  to be interact but some users just cant even scroll as they thinks it a fized scorecard with updated figures, variances and sub kpi measures on a frame

also my senior, thinks as its for executives he wint simplicity of less is more, but my frames are big like 500w x 300 so its not small kpi vlaue with a trend, but now itsa like a blown up version because the graphs are static, but due to the simplicity i dont know how to highlight the functionailty as even tried the one user over frame to higlhight the frame disguised from a botton but no

My curser is flicking the entire time when browising the screen hence why i want to minimize too

What is the best preferred method?

With the 4 rows and 3 per row and 3 buttons per frame it feels heavy and slow as the wait when clicking button is visible, but i dont know how to overcome, maybe i should put an info icon on each frame but my senior also does not want to display the meta fo the kpi like source etc so showing a icon just to indicate one can drill down and i can have buttons text etc outside of the frames

[icassiem]

Thank You, I like the simplicity of the drill-down buttons, but their invisibility makes it tough to justify to my manager