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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 on 05 Jul 2020 23:32:00

RE: group objects

I think every MS Office product has this. It's a definite must.

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Dan Robbins on 05 Jul 2020 23:31:49

RE: group objects

Allow Visio type grouping of visuals so they can be moved around on the page as an autonomous unit and allow copy/paste of the group.

Then we can create a single unit of visuals that are used multiple times on a page.

The format for the autonomous unit would only include the common data fields, X/Y positioning, and scaling %.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:31:45

RE: group objects

Yes

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:31:01

RE: group objects

This is an important feature. It should be given high accord.

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:29:35

RE: group objects

How is it that this idea has so few votes? Does everyone like dragging around one visual at a time? There are a couple of other similar ideas, so perhaps a moderator can consolidate same/ideas, so they can get some traction!

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:29:14

RE: group objects

Please add this feature in. It would be so useful!

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Kulchandra Neupane on 05 Jul 2020 23:29:05

RE: group objects

I think Poerbi needs more vote to look upon this fix. They are not doing any UX fix and waiting for users to raise their complaints and only after reaching certain votes they will look into this matter.

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Kulchandra Neupane on 05 Jul 2020 23:29:04

RE: group objects

Why not simply let user to select multiple shape like PowerPoint. Every Microsoft user is habitual for selecting multiple objects in that way. Then why you are implementing everything differently in Powerbi which is not user friendly. Overall UX is crap.

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Amy Matulis on 05 Jul 2020 23:28:54

RE: group objects

Just adding my vote.
Ctrl + Click to select multi is so painful

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Tiago Alberto on 05 Jul 2020 23:28:25

RE: group objects

'@PowerBI, do you have some kind of prediction for these feature implementation? It's in the roadmap?