Collin Quiring on 22 Oct 2019 03:40:22
We often have columns or measures that we want to be formatted the same in EVERY report tab in EVERY visual the same way. There is no universal method to format a measure in every visual in a report. We have to go into each visual on each report tab and do the exact same field formatting (colors, etc.) in each visual. We would like there to be a Universal option.
And, you know what will come next? :-) No doubt, somebody will want the formatting to be report wide EXCEPT for one single visual somewhere. Is that possible too?
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RE: Field Format - Report Wide
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I have just discovered that I cannot format the text in the legend . Also if I can format the text to be the colour I want, I don't necessarily need the marker (less is more).
Cheers,
Ian
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The lack of this feature seems to be a recurring habit of Microsoft in the Power Platform, I remember working with Power Apps at one point and that suffered the exact same problem.
Can we get some QoL features please Microsoft?
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This is the kind of the thing that leaves you wondering, in 2022... how this is isn't already a basic-included feature?
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Currently the "based on field" formatting (identified by the button "fx" under "Data Colors") is not available for all the standard visuals (like line chart, area chart, stacked area chart, pie chart, donut chart).
This option (available only for the bar/column chart visuals) disappears if a database field is assigned to "Legend". Consequently the only way to customise the colors is by manually selecting them for each case!
Check the comments under this said to be closed idea:
https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=31bbd622-9538-46e8-872a-22da964a2585
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Achieving some color consistency in PowerBI is a major pain and it seriously impacts experience and productivity.
Two major improvements could be implemented
-Measure default color - ability to assign a default color to any measure, to be used in relevant charts (line, bar, areas...) .
-Color assignations to field values - Ability to assign colors to field values, so that the color for dimensions stays consistent across charts. It could be similar to the "Data colors" feature, but not linked to a specific visualization.
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Need to be able to assign colors for specific data sets. I work on healthcare architecture projects and would like to be able to set "cardiology, primary care, oncology" etc. to a certain hex code to always be represented as the same color across pages. JSON files don't seem to be able to tag a color to a certain data label. Sorry - new to PowerBI. I realize I'm likely using beginning language!
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I am a user that came from QlikSense and this is one of the things I think PowerBi could improve a lot!
In Qllk , the user has the option to create master dimensions or measures and assign specific colors to them!
So, it does not matter when the user uses that attribute, will always be the same color.
All the charts have also the option of formating by dimension. And it does not matter it is a bar chart, a combination chart os a Scatter-Plot ploot , when you use this option you guarantee that the same dimension will always have the same color which makes a lot of sense ( I don't want in one chart the country US show with Green and the other with Blue.. that just create confusion) .
I been trying the same thing in Power BI, but I came to the conclusion that this is not possible. Some charts I can try to put the dimension as a legend, but no ALL charts, and the colors are not consistent between charts! I try to create a table with the colors code and the field, but that is not very practical.
I have a personal finance dashboard, so you can imagine I have a lot of categories and want to keep the colour consistency between charts.
Hope this Improve because the tool is amazing!