Share your thoughts on the new On-Object Interaction feature (preview)

[RosieL]

Hit Reply to tell us what you think about the new On-Object Interaction feature so we can continue to improve.

For example:

• What changes would you like to see?
• If you turned off the preview switch, why?
• Any suggestions for addititional settings or capabilities?

Thanks,

-Power BI team

To read more about the feature, see the announcement in the Power BI Product Blog or our documentation on how to Use on-object interaction

FAQs:

• Q: How can I open multiple panes at once?
  • A: You can CTRL + click or right click on the unselected pane you wish to open and choose "Open in new pane"
• Q: Where did aggregations move to?
  • A: It's still on right click of a field, or you can use the new flyout aggregations dropdown while choosing or swapping a field.
• Q: Where did drillthrough and tooltip page setup move to?
  • A: Drillthrough is now in the page settings of the format pane under Page Information > Page type > Drillthrough or Tooltip.

[SDittmannFleet]

I just opened a formal ticket about this. This is BEYOND RIDICULOUS. For the last 3 months now I've had to revert back to the January release just so I could work without interruption.

[JohnF1966]

@QC

I agree with all three of your suggestions. There was a comment on here that they are working on remembering your Pane Manager selections and it would be great if they also integrated your suggestions of giving us the option to remove the on-object icon from a visual all together and to put the 'Filter' in the Pane Manager as well.

[QC]

Hi Rosie, could we have an option to set column width numerically on both Table and Matrix visuals, perferably multiple columns at once?

They are the most common visuals for business use, currently user has to manually drag each column, it is both tedious and inaccurate, image a report with 10 table visuals each with 12 columns .. any improvement would be appreciated, thanks

[SDittmannFleet]

BE AWARE that the issue w/ the pane switcher not being persistent has NOT been fixed in the March 2024 release. 

@RosieL I don't know who needs to hear this, but this is ridiculous. It was fixed before the February release, people have complained about it having become a problem again, and then the March release comes out and it is STILL an issue. I should not have to uninstall and revert to the January release every month because the development team doesn't have their act together.

[GaryC]

Or the April release!

[JonathanKing10]

@SDittmannFleet I appologize for the inconvenience. This bug was reported to us after the March release had already been completed. It is fixed in the April release.

[GaryC]

No it isn't!

[SDittmannFleet]

No, actually it has not been corrected in the last release. I just downloaded and installed it, and here we still are. The settings thing for the pane switcher looks really fancy now, but your selections don't stay. THIS IS BEYOND ANNOYING.

[ryomaru0825]

Can not choose whether the field parameter shows the values or the display names of the selected field(s).

[TomGee702]

Can I tell you how much I HATE these changes. I mean, now I can't even change the colors on a bar chart. What the F are you guys doing???

[Lembasts]

Will on object editing ever be a part of the Report Server version of powerbi desktop?

Thanks

David

[JohnF1966]

In the November 2023 update there was a feature to resize the 'Data' flyout (see image below). This only works when the 'Build a visual' pane on an object (on a chart for example), but it does NOT work when the 'Build a visual' pane is in the 'Pane switcher'.

Please add this functionality so we can resize the 'Data' flyout when the 'Build a visual' pane is in the 'Pane switcher'

[JohnF1966]

I love the new 'multi-visual container format support' and the other bug fixes.

[markyh]

There used to be an option on a visual to show items with no data, but after changing to using On-Object interaction I can't see it anymore.  Is this not an option now ?

[JohnF1966]

@markyh,

I see it when I right click on a field in the 'Build a visual' pane (see image below).

[QC]

I noticed PBI Desktop has become significantly slower with pretty much everything after Feb. update: when I hit return after editing DAX formula, it takes up to 10s to update, try to do simple things like format a column from 2 decimal to 1 decimal, another 10s. It used to be decent (not super fast but not sluggish). Not sure if it's just me or not.

[D_M]

Definitely not just you, but I can confirm this is the case whether the OOI feature is enabled or disabled. All of the colleagues I've spoken to who utilize PBI regularly have also had the same experience. Every interaction and calculation which is in any way data related (which basically means almost everything as you stated) seems relatively sluggish.

[QC]

I think performance is a critical issue MS need to continue focus on, much more than UI. All of us as users want PBI to be fast and responsive. The worst thing could happen is MS make it slow and bloated in the name of "improving user experience".

[GaryC]

Same here, thought it was me.

[edchuy]

One thing I just noticed is that you can't a sparkline from a Value. I guess the only option left is to use Insert - > Add a Sparkline.

[QC]

BUG: the side pane no longer remembers user choice, instead always opens with the same 3 buttons by default. Previous versions remember user choice, so we don't have to repeat selection every time a .pbix file is opened. This is a new bug with Feb. 2024 version. Pls fix. Thanks. 

Version: 2.126.927.0 64-bit (February 2024)