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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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Bus Intel on 29 Sep 2022 23:43:50

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This functionality will make a huge difference!

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Aamir Dawre on 12 Sep 2022 05:55:54

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I am absolutely dumbstruck that this idea is yet to see the light of the day!

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Anirudh Sharma on 08 Sep 2022 08:29:32

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I want to hide/show a visual based on the user access. If the user belongs to some particular category he should see the visual.


This functionality is available in qlikview under layout conditional section.

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on 07 Sep 2022 18:28:45

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Very simple idea, this option is available in Qlikview so I am surprised it is not available in PBI: Conditional hide.


Hide an entire visual based on a formula or value. I know you can change text, values, fonts and background based on conditions, but this is not the same. A simple conditional hide would bring a whole new level on interactivity to PBI.

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Snorri Snorrason on 06 Sep 2022 08:26:13

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This feature would be extremely valuable, surprised it's not already in

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Bernd Herold on 19 Jul 2022 18:35:25

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When will we final get this important feature?

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Jash Jacob on 28 Jun 2022 15:11:22

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I just don't understand why this is not already a feature. Almost every reporting tool has this feature. There are so many times you don't want to play around with bookmarks for simple things like making a slicer available or unavailable based on RLS.

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Giorgio Pasini on 23 Jun 2022 14:10:50

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Yes it would be extremely handy

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Kurt Denolf on 16 Jun 2022 12:07:25

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Any plans yet ? seems very usefull

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

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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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