Enhance report designs

Hi Marico 

I’ve worked with similar cases, and when the report has no numeric columns, traditional table visuals will always feel flat no matter how many formatting tweaks we apply.

Here’s a practical approach that improves both interactivity and visual appeal:

✅ 1. Transform the descriptive fields into a “key–value” structured table

Using Power Query or DAX, create a normalized structure like:

Record ID

Attribute

Attribute Value

This gives you flexibility to use visuals other than a standard table.

✅ 2. Use a custom visual designed for text-heavy data

The ones that worked best for me are:

Card Browser (AppSource) → turns each row into an interactive profile card

Accordion by Nova Silva → allows users to expand/collapse long descriptions

Deneb (Vega-Lite) → highly customizable for creating clean, app-style text layouts

These visuals display descriptive fields far better than a flat table.

✅ 3. Build an “Interactive Info Panel”

With Deneb or Card Browser, each record becomes a card with:

a header

wrapped text

icons or category colors

optional search/filter

This setup feels much more intuitive for end-users.

✅ 4. (Optional) Use Tooltip Pages

If the client wants a cleaner layout, keep the main view minimal and show detailed descriptive fields inside a tooltip page when hovering or clicking.

✅ Result

This approach makes the report look interactive, modern, and user-friendly, even though the dataset contains no numeric fields

Marico I would say, it depends 😅
My first concern with custom visuals is most of the time if there is a company policy not allowing custom visuals, especially if they are not certified.