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powerbiexpert22
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22 days ago
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Custom option not available

i do not see custom option under display units in bar chart , any reason for this 

 

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  • rajendraongole1's avatar
    rajendraongole1
    22 days ago

    Hi powerbiexpert22​ -The Custom option in Display units is part of visual-level format strings, which were introduced as a preview feature tied to visual calculations. If that preview isn’t enabled, or the Desktop version is older, the dropdown shows only Auto through Trillions.

    Go to File → Options and settings → Options → Preview features and enable Visual calculations (or Visual level format strings, depending on your build).                                                                    Restart Power BI Desktop.

    Visual calculations (preview) | Microsoft Fabric Community

    Hope this helps.

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  • rajendraongole1's avatar
    rajendraongole1
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    22 days ago

    Hi powerbiexpert22​ -The Custom option in Display units is part of visual-level format strings, which were introduced as a preview feature tied to visual calculations. If that preview isn’t enabled, or the Desktop version is older, the dropdown shows only Auto through Trillions.

    Go to File → Options and settings → Options → Preview features and enable Visual calculations (or Visual level format strings, depending on your build).                                                                    Restart Power BI Desktop.

    Visual calculations (preview) | Microsoft Fabric Community

    Hope this helps.

  • sunilchauhan26's avatar
    sunilchauhan26
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    22 days ago

    Hi rajendraongole1,


    what you have mentions is about custom measures added at in chart Calculation not format

    HI PowerBIexpert 22,

    May be due to power bi version.
    I Can see the custom option in  Charts Properties  Value section->display unit- Custom( as last option)

    I am using this and clustered Bar Chart
    Version: 2.158.1304.0 64-bit (September, 2026)

    • rajendraongole1's avatar
      rajendraongole1
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      21 days ago

      Thanks sunilchauhan26​ . To clarify: visual-level format strings were originally released as part of the Visual calculations preview (Power BI August 2024 update), so that toggle was required on older builds, though they’re useful even for normal measures ( in one of our project using older version). The Custom display unit is an element-level format string, which Microsoft documents as available only for specific visuals and data labels. On recent builds like 2.158 it should appear under Values → Display units without extra steps, so powerbiexpert22​ , updating Desktop is the first thing to try.

      Hope this helps.

  • mh2587's avatar
    mh2587
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    22 days ago

    You can also find in general as well and select the desire filed in applying setting to check the image

     

  • v-achippa's avatar
    v-achippa
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    17 days ago

    Hi powerbiexpert22​,

    Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Fabric Community.

    Thank you rajendraongole1​, sunilchauhan26​ and mh2587​ for the prompt response.

    As we haven’t heard back from you, we wanted to kindly follow up to check if the solution provided by the user's for the issue worked? or let us know if you need any further assistance.

    Thanks and regards,
    Anjan Kumar Chippa

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    v-achippa
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    14 days ago

    Hi powerbiexpert22​,

    We wanted to kindly follow up to check if the solution provided by the user's for the issue worked? or let us know if you need any further assistance.

    Thanks and regards,
    Anjan Kumar Chippa