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Ronny Hagen on 25 Apr 2016 18:41:29

I would like to group visuals, textboxes and shapes to create custom features and presentations in the reports.

Administrator on 04 Dec 2019 05:33:34

This is now available in Power BI Desktop. Learn more here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-august-2019-feature-summary/#grouping

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Andrew T. on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:29

RE: group objects

This is pretty basic UI functionality. As well as mouse click and drag for multi-selection, and arrow keys for incremental movement of selected items, and guidlines to show when elements are aligned. Without this, doing a complex visual layout is a miserable buisiness. When one element is beneath another, it's not possible to select multiple things to move together at the same time.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:31:18

RE: group objects

I am looking for a the possibility to see and hide/unhide with a selection pane (a-la-PowerPoint) the objects present in a report page.
similarly I would also like to group/ungroup objects together (a-la-PowerPoint)

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Danny Dennison on 05 Jul 2020 22:30:29

RE: group objects

Similar to how Photoshop groups layers... it would be nice (for example) to lock an image with visual(s), making it easier move around a page.

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Ariel H. on 05 Jul 2020 22:26:29

RE: group objects

very need it, and also to be able to pin the set of grouped objects.

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Chris Beaupre on 05 Jul 2020 22:25:45

RE: group objects

This

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:09:38

RE: group objects

In addition to being able to filter by visualisation, page and report, it would be useful to be able to group visualisations, so that the same filter can be applied to each of them. e.g. a group of different visualisations for sales targets by team so that it would be easy to change the team filtered for te group of visualisations compared to the entire department (on the same page)