Making great progress on my 10-day NAV Walkforward thanks to the help received yesterday from forum. Now I’ve got most of my measures working the way I need to them, I’m getting into the formatting details. I’ve set up a few matrix visuals on the page and I want the width of the columns to stay the way I set them. On each visual, I did set the “Auto-size column width” to Off but anytime I change my date slicer the column width resets. I’ve Googled and found a few old post regarding this issue. Anyone come up with a workaround?
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I have encountered this issue several times, and I have to admit I have finally given up. Any tricks I have seen involve adding a row of dummy data to force the columns to stay open to a particular width. And of course, adding the dummy data in complicates other parts of your measure.
Thanks @Heather! We do not have Premium Capacity but I see there’s new licensing announced at Ignite to allow purchasing on individual user basis which is new.
Thanks for confirming and I will definitely vote for those ideas!
Running into this same issue this week. I would say I can’t believe it’s not included functionality, but I can believe it I didn’t even think to test for this, but noticed the behavior by accident.
Makes no sense for a fixed column width to change when a slicer selection changes. I did vote for those ideas, but they don’t seem to have much traction. I guess I will try the dummy measure approach.
Update: The dummy measure solution is not very difficult to implement. Still wish it wasn’t needed though. Here is what I did:
There are many resources online on how to adjust matrix column width, including the eDNA YouTube video “Reports & Visualizations Pt. 1 - Power BI Best Practices Vol. 4” from last year:
(The matrix column width issue is discussed around the 8 minute mark.)
I haven’t tried this with slicer selections, so not sure if it’s applicable to your situation.
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Thanks for your post Greg, it is helpful. The specific issue here is that if you turn off auto-size width and set the column widths of a matrix manually, the manually set width does not persist with slicer changes.
It seems that this behavior is built into PBI. Looks like this is a known issue which I just encountered for the first time.
Here I have manually set the column with of a matrix with Column Headers- Auto Size Width= off
Then I change the slicer and the column width changes even though auto-size width=off
I see that a rept measure can be used as a workaround, but I do not think a workaround should be needed in this scenario.
I didn’t even think to test for this, but noticed the behavior by accident.
