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Chris99's avatar
Chris99
Advocate III
8 years ago

Columns in Multi Row Card?

I am using multi row cards on some of my reports. Aggregated fields get displayed in a line with the the label underneath. However on each card there is a non-aggregated field, and instead of being in line with the others, it is displayed above the first field and emboldened. Although unexpected, this looks quite nice. A quick test has shown that the order or the fields does not change this behaviour.

 

However when the card is pinned to a dashboard all the fields are displayed in a line. I don't really care which is format is used, but the lack of consistency between dashboard and report in confusing users.

 

As an example, on the report I see

GBP

1,234,567.89         2,345,678.90

Net Amount             Total Amount

 

And on the dashboard I see

GBP            1,234,567.89         2,345,678.90

Currency      Net Amount             Total Amount

 

Can anyone provide any insights?

 

Thanks

 

Chris

5 Replies

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable

    HI Chris99,

     

    AFAIK, current tiles not support customize style which you setting on visuals.(they will lost when you pin visuals as dashboard tiles)

     

    In my opinion, if you want to keep its style, please use 'pin live page' feature to keep visual customize and styles.

     

    Regards,

    Xiaoxin Sheng

    • Chris99's avatar
      Chris99
      Advocate III

      AnonymousThanks for replying.

       

      I think there are two things here though.

       

      The first is that I am setting some customized styles, such as the card title font size and colour. The fact that these are not kept is in itself very annoying, as having spent time polishing the reports to look nice I do not see why the dashboard then resolves to being plain and boring.

       

      The second issue, which is the one I am highlighting, is that the default layout behaviour of the card and multi-row card is different between the report and the dashboard. The layout on the report is not due to any styling I have introduced, it is the default. Why is the default layout on the dashboard not the same?

       

      Thanks,

       

      Chris

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable

        Hi Chris99,

         

        No, I think you're talk about one known limitation of dashboard. Group effect of multiple row card should also one of customize style which power bi analysis and converted.

         

        As I said, ping visuals to dashboard will lost all custom styles.  In summary, I think your key question is why power bi dashboard not keep original style.

         

        In my opinion, I think it may due to performance reasons.  If power bi keep custom styles, it should cache each custom properties to service device and loading them when you open dashboard.(It obviously will affect loading performance)

         

        BTW, I also mentioned to use pin live page feature to pin whole report page to dashboard as a tile. For this situation, all customized will be keeps.

         

        Regards,

        Xiaoxin Sheng