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Visibilty (Hide an Item)

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Luca Gualtieri on 01 Feb 2019 02:44:01

Develop an item formatting property which allows to set the visibility of a report item when you want to conditionally hide the item based on a report parameter or some other expression that you specify (also DAX expressions).

You can develop this incrementally starting from visuals, then text boxes, then shapes and buttons....

If you want to go the extra mile, you can also develop a functionality that allows the final user to toggle the visibility of report items.

For more information and since it was an available and really useful capability see "Add an Expand or Collapse Action to an Item (Report Builder and SSRS)".

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/report-builder/hide-an-item-report-builder-and-ssrs?view=sql-server-2017

I double checked in the ideas database and there are many ideas describing the same functionality; this is the reason why I do believe this is really required and will try to collect all the previous votes under this item.

Administrator on 18 Oct 2022 00:57:38

Update 10/17: This is now in our upcoming roadmap and we will share more details in the coming months. Mo

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Ayyappa Reddy X on 31 May 2022 01:45:13

RE: Visibilty (Hide an Item)

This is very critical in improving user experience by many folds. Making masking work arounds with a card visual is not at all so elegant. Power BI should give it out of box.

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Daniel Cruz on 16 May 2022 11:55:45

RE: Visibilty (Hide an Item)

It is an absurd Power BI doesn't have such a feature ... this is available in every other BI / reporting tool. It should be a feature in the Power BI level above the vizual level, I mean, regardless the vizual type, if native or custom, there should be the option to hide or present the vizual based on a DAX measure. The idea is to do something like, if context A, I need my vizual to be type X, if the context is B, I need to present the data in a totally different type Y.Thanks

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Myroslava Mrochko on 12 May 2022 08:24:22

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Hide / Show the visual based on dax measure would be really helpful. Many options would be available.This is really critical in developing the reports and making Power BI solution so flexible.

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Thomas Reick on 09 May 2022 08:19:26

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To me this functionality should be integrated to PBI to avoid fiddling around with "Excel-Hack-Like" workarounds.Those have already been used in the last century. Imagine the digital transformation discussed everywhere is using a suboptimal analog handling resulting like that. This leads only to a suboptimal digital process.If a data given condition is made available e.g. in a measure, it should be possible to use it as a property of a visual / a page to set visibility.E.g. dashboard from an error report shows only counts of errors. If all possible errors are 0 there is no need to show an extra table-visual with an empty list or the extra page documenting the errors (becuse the visual would be empty as well).Thank you.

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Harriet Stewart on 06 May 2022 00:08:20

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This is essential for our work in Power BI. It is such a pain in the neck to set everything to transparent...and it doesn't work for visuals with no conditional color possibilities.

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Collin Davis on 28 Apr 2022 15:54:15

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They have this same functionality in Power Apps. I see no reason why it can't be over in another program in the Power Platform.

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Alp Kurtbogan on 27 Apr 2022 08:24:35

RE: Visibilty (Hide an Item)

Enable to show or hide an object (chart, table, map, text box, filter, image, shape etc.) based on a condition. If a condition evaluates to TRUE than show the object, else hide it. +1

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on 18 Apr 2022 21:04:44

RE: Visibilty (Hide an Item)

Enable to show or hide an object (chart, table, map, text box, filter, image, shape etc.) based on a condition. If a condition evaluates to TRUE than show the object, else hide it.

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on 18 Apr 2022 21:04:44

RE: Visibilty (Hide an Item)

When there is no data, we can an option to hide the visual until we have some data

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on 18 Apr 2022 21:04:43

RE: Visibilty (Hide an Item)

we use shapes like line or rectangles to make our report better. but when there is no data for certain components, we tend to hide the same but with current settings for shapes we don't see any options to hide (or conditional hide)

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