on 10 Jan 2017 03:12:48
Give users the ability to set a theme (either an out-of-the-box or custom theme) as their default for all reports created in Power BI Desktop.
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A dedicated place to set defaults for all Power Bi visuals. If I always want my titles to be 15pt font, and my general font to be 12 pt, I currently have to set on each visual.
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RE: Set default theme
I want my custom Report Theme to be applied to all reports created by all users in the Power BI Service. So that our Reports/Dashboards have a look and feel that is consistent and that matches our company branding.
I even found that when I Publish from Desktop to Service with a custom Report Theme ... then create a new Report in the Service based on the Dataset I Published ... it does not apply the Report Theme from the .PBIX file that I had Published.
RE: Set default theme
Why can't Power BI just let us edit the 'Default' Theme?
If this was possible it would solve so many problems like the default text being too small. What a waste of time to have to change it every time for every visual.
People have different ideas of what looks right for them and should be able to customise defaults...like they can in every other program...
RE: Set default theme
+1!
Would greatly help to provide consistency throughout the whole organization. Changes in theme would not have to be announced, it would just happen.
RE: Set default theme
Yes please, we are already able to do this with Power BI embedded. We should be able to change the default theme for the organization, maybe at a workspace level and at an organization level. And when creating a report in PBI Desktop, when you are logged in with your organizational account, the organizational theme should be automatically applied.
RE: Set default theme
We have established brand standards for fonts and colors. Manually having to change dashboards so they have a consistent look is time-consuming and error-prone.
RE: Set default theme
Please yes, include this. My company has branding guidelines and changing the font where it occurs in each visual is burdensome.
RE: Set default theme
This would be extremely useful. My native language has accented latin characters In the current default font they do not exist. So I end up with oversized accented characters on every new visual. Having ability to change the default would be amazing. Or simply MS could change that default DIN family, which is terribly poor... Or include accented characters into it. Calibri font has them covered well...
RE: Set default theme
or across all workspaces
RE: Set default theme
I concur with the sentiments/feedback from my peers on this topic. We currently have the ability for the custom theme/fonts for our corporate standard to work on the Power BI Desktop which does not work on the Power BI cloud service even though we have purchased Premium Capacity to allow for some customizations.