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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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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

RE: Add expand/collapse feature to column headers

Any update?

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Mohammed Adnan on 06 Jul 2020 00:14:49

RE: Add expand/collapse feature to column headers

Yes. it will be very helpful

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jsp.almeida1983 on 06 Jul 2020 00:14:36

RE: Add expand/collapse feature to column headers

Hi Microsoft, any update on this extremely important improvement? Please really consider to add this little, but again, very important feature in Power BI. We need it!

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:14:01

RE: Add expand/collapse feature to column headers

Here are two very important benefits of Expand/Collapse Column Headers. It is Even better if we can just Hide (remove) them from the Viz like in TABLEAU":

* Enable you to use Dynamic Title freely.
* Enable you to Lock the sort order because users cannot click on the Headers if they are Collapsed or Hidden.