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Add expand/collapse feature to column headers

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Amanda Rivera (SHE/HER) on 17 Nov 2018 02:30:35

Vote on this idea if you want expand/collapse on column headers in the matrix similar to what was shipped for row headers in November (https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-november-2018-feature-summary/#expandCollapse).

Administrator on 28 Jan 2023 20:33:12

10/20/2022 - Just an update, this is an extremely expensive item, which is why it has not been picked up yet. I promise we will revisit this after we ship visual calculations

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Nita Perez on 19 Aug 2020 20:13:07

RE: Add expand/collapse feature to column headers

Hello Microsoft - This is a very important function. This will save me time. Currently I have to export and pivot the data in excel because of this lack of functionality. This is a features gives a glimpse of the past by years and let me focus on the quarters of the current years. The executives love this feature.

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Larius Woodson on 06 Aug 2020 19:04:02

RE: Add expand/collapse feature to column headers

I cannot understand why this feature is missing from Power BI, but it seems that setting column width in a table or matrix would be a great standard feature.

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Dominic Godfrey on 20 Jul 2020 21:35:26

RE: Add expand/collapse feature to column headers

When implemented can this also include the ability to have measures outside of column groups like in SSRS. At the moment if you have something in the columns, all the measures get split by it. I need a column grouping which can be expanded, in addition to measures outside of the column group. Hope this makes sense.

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James Anderson on 14 Jul 2020 11:52:06

RE: Add expand/collapse feature to column headers

Also having the ability to Ctrl or Shift a bunch of columns and equally space them out.

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Ankush on 10 Jul 2020 17:22:37

RE: Add expand/collapse feature to column headers

Following

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:17:57

RE: Add expand/collapse feature to column headers

This in addition to having the ability to have columns outside of a column group would be great.

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Nipun Khant on 06 Jul 2020 00:16:08

RE: Add expand/collapse feature to column headers

Yes. it will be very helpful

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David Galipp on 06 Jul 2020 00:15:36

RE: Add expand/collapse feature to column headers

As my organization is transitioning a large amount of reporting to Power BI, this would be an invaluable asset. This feature would enable us to eliminate the need for additional ad-hoc reports.

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PC on 06 Jul 2020 00:15:33

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Any update?

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Mohammed Adnan on 06 Jul 2020 00:14:49

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Yes. it will be very helpful