Forum Discussion

H0wardM00n's avatar
H0wardM00n
New Member
10 years ago
Solved

Colour data points on a map according to category

Hello Everybody,   I am very new to Power BI and am trying to colour data points in a map according to category and for the life of me can't figure out how to do it. Apologies if this is a very new...
Need Help
  • Baskar's avatar
    Baskar
    10 years ago

    Hi Rob

     

    In Tableau we can show the color difference bec we have separate color Mark,

     

    In power BI also availble its called "Color Saturation"

    but it quite different here we cant use the dimension , here we can only use the measure value , its one drawback in power BI, I hope from upcoming update they change ...

     

    am sure now there is no option...

Sean's avatar
Sean
Icon for Community Champion rankCommunity Champion
10 years ago

H0wardM00n Can you post some sample data? Did you try putting Category in the Legend?

H0wardM00n's avatar
H0wardM00n
New Member
10 years ago

Hi Sean, 

 

I have rebuilt my test model and can now see the individual sites as i expected using the legend.  Thank you for the pointer.  

 

Rob

  • diegopagura's avatar
    diegopagura
    Regular Visitor
    7 years ago

    Hi everyone! Bumping up this old topic as I have a similar issue with using a map to categorize items.

     

    I know that I can use the location for the country and then the Legend for the category of the items in my dataset.

    However, my issue is that I have sub-categories on my table and I wanted to know if somebody has any idea on how to best show this on a visual in PBI.

     

    For example, I have:

     

    Country      Division    Process Type

    Argentina    Finance      Manual

    Spain           finance       Automatic

    Honduras    Sales          Manual

     

    I guess I can go with using the sub category as the Legend and the main one as a Slicer. Or maybe join the Division and Process type into a single Column and use that as the Legend. 

     

    Any help is much appreciated. 

    Regards,

    Diego