Can we disable landscape orientation for reports in power BI mobile App?

[gsingh]

Hi All,

Is there any way we can control orientation setting in power BI mobile App?

Details: When we drill down to reports from dashboard, it changes the orientation to Landscape, which is quite annoying.

Why: Mobile reports are best consumed in portrait while landscape is idle for tabs <best practices>. To maintain consistency across all reports we never use landscape for mobile dashboards.

Any help/information would be greatly helpful.

[clementratel]

Hi,

I have the same issue. I am not able to find a way to display any report in a portrait format on my mobile phone.

Even with Autoration set to Off with phone in portrait mode, opening a report -220x300- will go in landscape mode.

How to prevent this from happening ? The only way to view the report in portrait mode is to create a dashboard from it...

a+,=)

-=Clement=-

Configuration:

Power BI 2.2.161120.111249

Phone brand: Wiko

Phone model: Rainbow 4G

Android version: 4.4.2

[clementratel · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Let me reply to myself, this is possible from Power BI Desktop as a preview feature to be activated in the options "mobile authoring".

You can then follow instructions on following link (basically go to View / Change Layout and it is done):

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-desktop-create-phone-report/

a+, 😃

-=Clement=-

Configuration:

Power BI 2.2.161120.111249

Phone brand: Wiko ; Phone model: Rainbow 4G ; Android version: 4.4.2

[RomiK]

Hi,

As @clementratel mentioned you can configure a portrait mode of your phone reports by creating an optimized view in the Power BI desktop.

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-desktop-create-phone-report/

[Greg_Deckler]

Edit report. Make sure no visuals are selected. Click paintbrush icon, expand Page size. If you do not see page size, see "make sure no visuals are selected". Change page size to "Letter" or potentially "Custom". Default is 4:3, which is essentially landscape. Not entirely sure how this will work in mobile app, if it will honor the setting, but worth a shot.

[gsingh]

@Greg_Deckler Thanks for the response. I already did that. For iPhone portrait (480px), standard website safe area is 310 (width) * 352 (height). I kept is as low as 250*341 with combination of all available view settings (Dynamic, fit to page/width, actual size) but no luck.

My dilemma is - Should I design my page as per landscape (which is not recommended in my organization) or design for portrait hoping Microsoft will release this feature real soon. 😞

[Greg_Deckler]

Good question. I tend to go with what works today versus what might work in the future. Bird in hand as they say. But, then again, I also tend to ask for forgiveness versus permission...