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One Problem with Scrollbars in Power BI

Chris Webb focuses on the performance aspect of scrollbars on tables:

Concluding my series of blog posts on seemingly harmless things you can do in a Power BI report that can lead to performance problems and the “This visual has exceeded the available resources” error (see also “Calculate(), Filter() and DAX memory usage” and “DAX measures that never return blank“), in this post I’ll show how table visuals with vertical scrollbars that potentially show thousands of rows can be a Bad Thing.

I’d also note the aesthetic problem: the intent of a dashboard is to be glanceable, meaning that a user can gain sufficient understanding of what is happening without needing to click, drag, sort, filter, or otherwise manipulate the dashboard. This means, if you are intending to create a dashboard (versus a report), vertical scrollbars form a second sort of issue: you’re obscuring data that you consider important enough to show to the end user.