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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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Robert Hawke on 06 Jul 2020 00:14:26

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QlikView has had this already for more than 10 years. I was very surprised to not find it in PowerBi. I will stick with QlikView for now.

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:12:37

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Please implement this idea. This will be super helpful.

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Debra Bodham on 06 Jul 2020 00:11:22

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I totally agree. We are moving away from Qlikview to Power BI and I'm finding quite a few limitations

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Sean on 06 Jul 2020 00:11:06

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This is essential in my option for a BI tool, please develop! Specifically if you
want to guide the user to make certain selections before visuals are displayed it is critical.

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Alex Dean on 06 Jul 2020 00:10:11

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or vote here:

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/14126904-dynamic-visibility

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Andrew on 06 Jul 2020 00:09:58

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Dynamically or conditionally hiding visuals based on expressions or parameters would be awesome! Even if you had to come up with a boolean that evaluated to True/False and could tag that to an object, bookmark, or report page's visibility status would be unbelievably fantastic!

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Aaron Morgan on 06 Jul 2020 00:08:56

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This option would help us cut down on the pages required for our reports. Please implement this idea!

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:39

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Seems the same as: https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/19435267-conditional-visibility-of-a-visual-based-on-slicer Needed feature.

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Richard on 06 Jul 2020 00:06:04

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Also show/hide bookmarks if ...

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Andrew Tuplin on 06 Jul 2020 00:05:19

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This would be very useful.

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