Mastering Power BI Desktop: A Deep Dive into the Pane Switcher

On-Object Editing has been out for a bit in Power BI Desktop, and it came with a cool pane switcher! Adam walks through how to use the pane switcher and talks about some recent updates.

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[ionutcoste]

Great content as usual. Another useful tip that I discovered after watching your video is using CRTL+Click to multi-open or close the panes, it's much faster than click-open in new pane

[gaMEXDavid]

3:41 Simply click on the icon that is all the way to the right (i.e., the Data, Format, etc. icons) and it will collapse.
Great video 🎉

[podon]

I really hope they address the quirk that you mentioned ~03:15. The I don't understand the logic behind why the "X" button removes the pane's button from the pane switcher when you can add/remove them with the toggles in the Customize Pane Switcher menu. It's more intuative (imo) that "X" just closes the pane. Yes, I know you can close it by clicking on the respective button in the pane switch, but the "X" button is right there.

[mcnater]

way too many clicks and still not intuitive enough. Getting better but a lot of work the MS team needs to do if they want this to be the default.

[UtkarshAggawal]

I had the same experience. I was hesitant in using it when it first came out. Now I've been using it for some time. Pretty slick!

[Henrik.Vestergaard]

Liked it .... until the panes started closing when selecting eg pictures in the Selection pain. Terrible. If it gets fixed though, Im quite positive for the new exp

[mazchen]

I also noted since the last update, the on object edit icon didn't come up sometimes. Instead of restarting PowerBi what brought them back for me was slightly resizing the visual.

[alistairmacdonald]

Super userful!!!! Was put off using this in the initial releases, but functionality now is alot better. Great pick for a viseo Adam - could have been overlooked....

[leonidiakovlev]

First "you don't need the dark mode", now this. It all ends with "you don't need the desktop client"

[jopruinelli]

I liked the new experience, my problem was I struggled way too much to find the drillthrough tougle option, than I got back to the old pane. I have learnt where that was, but totally forgot now since I am no longer using new experience 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

[SQLMonger]

Nice! As always, I picked up more tricks. Thanks Adam!

[gnomesukno]

Like the fact you can place it in the pane. I may finally switch to the new experience now

[dc-sgot]

I dig it! One thing, the increased width is finally there on visual edit until you drill into table/folder etc.

[HH-stlp]

I’m having a tough time seeing the added value to this functionality. I thought the existing way of working was perfectly fine.

[Elprise]

I also noticed that the 'build a visual' will not let you name a field with a spacebar. This is something I would do in cases where I did not want a column name. I know there are other ways to do this, but the 'Old' experience allowed this.

[kingLostSouls]

You can also hold CTRL to add multiple panes

[moth_la]

Still pretty buggy experience. Still preferring the old exp in the rhs panes as I tend to drag the fields onto the vis.

[MultiGuiles]

The fact that you have to restart the program sometimes shows that this feature is not mature yet.
I don t like to close + save + restart. It is a loss of time, and does not come well when you are in front of a client.
Hoping this will be solved soon so that we can use it the real production.

[michalbicki]

Hi Adam,
I noticed that when I have on-object iteration I cant add Date column to visual - it only works with hierarchy. Any ideas how to go around this?

[cicciogrecia]

When multiple panes are opened simultaneously, the dashboard becomes very small. Working on an ultrawide 34'' screen is far better than a usual 16:9, productivity-wise.