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Moatez
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Overlay a custom visual over a report or make it transparent

Hello everyone ,

 

I want to know if its possible to make a custom visual that can be overlayed over a report or make the custom visual transparent .

 

My current situation is using a date picker , when the date picker opens up i want it to overlay over the report itself.

 

Here is a screenshot of the situation ๐Ÿ™‚ 

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Thanks!

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dm-p
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Hi @Moatez,

The background setting (which affects the entire developer visual container rather than the part of the DOM you have control over) does allow you to specify transparency, which will affect the entire developer visual above the iframe. However, this may still not achieve what you're after, as Power BI usually enforces z-order for visuals and you may well cause issues with people being able to use interactivity features of the visuals 'underneath'.

The officially supported way (again due to the iframe sandbox in-place) is to use the dialog box API for any content that you wish to overflow the boundares of a visual.

Regards,

Daniel





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dm-p
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Hi @Moatez,

The background setting (which affects the entire developer visual container rather than the part of the DOM you have control over) does allow you to specify transparency, which will affect the entire developer visual above the iframe. However, this may still not achieve what you're after, as Power BI usually enforces z-order for visuals and you may well cause issues with people being able to use interactivity features of the visuals 'underneath'.

The officially supported way (again due to the iframe sandbox in-place) is to use the dialog box API for any content that you wish to overflow the boundares of a visual.

Regards,

Daniel





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Moatez
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Hi @dm-p thank you very much for your answer ^^

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