Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Pane Switcher is a Pain


The X in the pane switcher within Power BI is huge pain in the neck!  

I find myself constantly opening things that I have inadvertently closed. 

The user experience would feel better if the option were to simply collapse the pane only.

What exactly is the use case for closing a pane versus collapsing anyhow?  It is not memory hog.  Closing it does not appear to offer any benefit except enabling users to have to click twice more time to get to open again.

The current user experience for this is backwards.

Two clicks to collapse, click again to re-open; and, one click to close, with two Clicks to re-open.

I recommend one clicks to collapse, click again to re-open; and, two clicks to close, and two clicks to re-open.

That is, unless you can somehow make it so that there is ever only one click, like getting rid of close altogether.

I suspect that most would agree that collapse should be the primary action and not close.  If nothing else, give me a collapse button!  I should not have to click twice to collapse the pane out of the way.

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1 comment:

  1. And just like that, problem solved.
    https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Desktop/Share-your-thoughts-on-the-new-On-Object-Interaction-feature/m-p/3561982#M1172965

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