3 Report Configurations You Need to Review in Reader Mode!

Learn about three visual/report configurations that should be reviewed after publishing a report to the Power BI service, and viewing the report in reader mode. Today these features can be easily misconfigured in Power BI desktop, which is why it's so important to review them in reader mode. Tune in to learn more!
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[@vanlessing]

the header icons are a topic for itself. Recently I applied the help icon + help text quite often

[@HavensConsulting]

It's a rich topic for sure! I will sometimes include an [?] or similar in the title if there's a help tooltip on that visual too

[@FrankPreusker]

In my experience not a lot of people seem to care about (both developers as well as users), but to me the header icons on shapes and filters are noise which should be taken care of, so fully supportive of your suggestions (and I'm always ensuring it myself). I would be careful with changes in PBI Service as it's too easy to get out of sync with your offline copy.

[@HavensConsulting]

Right? Love and care is needed and it does a long way to adding professionalism.

[@helgeschroeder6243]

If I remember correctly, the toggle to view/not view header icons can be set in the themefile.
But maybe not the individual toggles for each particular icon(?)

[@HavensConsulting]

With the PBI.Tips theme generator, you can set individual defaults per icon, per visual, or at the report level :)
themes.powerbi.tips/themes/wireframes

[@MrAszpic]

Nice video! Is the IBCS-like bar chart done with SVGs or you did it some other way?

[@HavensConsulting]

Done with SVG! You can parse the code if you download the PBIX from this video, or checkout a previous video where I showed that too
ua-cam.com/video/7sCFEtmyqMo/v-deo.html

[@bravucod]

I think it's useful to be able to do it in the service without having to use the actual PBIX file, but the downside is later on. If you go and make a modification to your existing PBIX file, those changes won't persist as changes are not in sync with the file. Unless you're downloading the latest PBIX file before making changes that are not available in the service. I still think it's better to do it using the desktop app

[@HavensConsulting]

That's why I suggest to download the PBIX when done, much more agile this way. Just take that file, place it into your file repository when done to update :)
Let's assume the file you're working on is 500MB. Needing to republish that 3-5 times during this process would take ages 😱

[@workstuff5253]

I think a lot of these should be set by MS as the default setting. The maintain layer order, is a prime example, and I honestly can't think of a reason to want the current default behaviour...

[@HavensConsulting]

I agree! Hopefully someday these can be defaults. But for now we have options like the PBI.Tips Theme Creator to help set defaults for that :)
themes.powerbi.tips/