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Anonymous
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8 years ago
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Custom Theme Preview for Visuals: Visual Name for Matrix?

Using the Sept 2017 PBI Desktop, with custom theme preview...   I am trying to apply a default theme for a matrix.  The visual name of "matrix" does not seem to work.   Here is an excerpt of my t...
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  • TomMartens's avatar
    TomMartens
    8 years ago

    Hey,

     

    maybe one of the mysteries of naming things ...

     

    The name you have to use for the matrix visual is pivotTable:

    "pivotTable": {
			"*": {
				"rowHeaders": [{
					"fontSize":14
				}],
				"columnHeaders": [{
					"fontSize":14
				}],
				"values": [{
					"fontSize":12
				}]
			}
		}

    Regards

    Tom

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TomMartens
Super User
8 years ago

Hey Anonymous,

 

unfortunately I do not have a more complete set of documentation. The documentation also states that there is a visual called "pivotTable". I wanted to change the "Matrix" visual, because matrix, didn't work I tried promising visuals, and pivotTable worked - that simple.

 

Regards

Tom 

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Anonymous
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8 years ago

Thanks Tom!  If I went down the list one by one I would have found it eventually.  Thanks for the time savings and for pointing me in the right direction!

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    8 years ago

    In case anyone is wondering, you can set the font color, the syntax is like this:

      "visualStyles": {
    "*": {
      "*": {
        "*": [
          {
            "fontSize": 10,
            "fontFamily": "Segoe UI",
            "color": { "solid": { "color": "#E6E6E6" } }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }

    There's a great tool for creating custom themes here: https://powerbi.tips/tools/report-theme-generator-v3/

    Thank you to Adam Harper from PowerDAX for pointing it out!

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      8 years ago

      Glad the theme generator was updated!  Thanks for the tip!

       

      What did you refer to to figure out the syntax of  "color": { "solid": { "color": "#E6E6E6" } } ???  That's not in the reference material that was published along with the September update.

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
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        8 years ago

        I know! It would be really great if the documentation were more complete. I mined it out of the file produced by the theme generator.