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Visual Header

Expose contextual actions such as drill, focus, sort, filters, export or more options.

Interactive example

Revenue by departmentFiltersDrillFocusMore

FreshBeveragesGroceryNon-foodHousehold

The visual header hosts filter state, drill controls, focus mode and the options menu. Hiding it hides those affordances from users too.

Simulated behaviour on the shared fictional retail dataset. Native mechanism: Yes.

Best for

Only actions that help users operate the specific visual.

Avoid when

Showing every available icon by default.

Typical data

Relevant recovered tags: visual header, actions, icons

Usage

Only actions that help users operate the specific visual.

Power BI limitation

Header capabilities vary by visual and environment.