This would allow for the creation of dynamic databars and sparklines and other creative visualizations without having to write a full blown custom visual.
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Comments Allow to define values bellow 24px to image height on table or matrix visuals, and also to define a different value to width allowing us to explore more the capabilities of SVG images.
I've been looking at adding a custom column in a table which would use SVG to produce a visual. The ideal shape for this is no taller than the text, but quite wide.
It seems that Power BI insists on allocating a square-shaped piece of space for the image to fit in. This means that when the visual is sized to the correct width, the allocated vertical space is wasted, and makes the rows much too tall.
If I could set the correct width along with the height, this would solve my problem as the generated visual would always be the same (very not square) width and height. Power BI could allocate only the specified space.
This is an absurd limitation by MS not thinking how people might want to use this capability.
regardless of how an image is displayed, the developer should have control over image height, width, and cell padding in the table visuals.
Agree that the ability to scale the SVG to the width of the cell would be a major improvement to this functionality. Square cells are OK for short periods but any data dense sparkline tends to get crowded quickly, e.g. COVID time series data per location.
Has anyone figured a solution to the square dimensions yet? This would really be appreciated if imageURL would allow for rectangular/wider images.
Thank you, Darren. Having the ability to render SVG sprites, icons, databars and sparklines in a table or matrix cell is awesome but as Darren mentions; there are significant limitations in its implementation. Allowing the graphic scale to the cell dimensions would improve this capability significantly.