Hi,
I am building a Power BI theme template and have run into what appears to be a bug with the new cardVisual and individual padding. The goal is to apply individual outer margins to all card visuals via the theme JSON. The margins themselves (topOuterMargin, rightOuterMargin, etc.) are schema-validated and apply correctly, but only when the "Individual padding" toggle is manually enabled in the format pane first. Through the theme alone, the toggle does not activate, so the margins have no visible effect.
I have tried setting paddingIndividual in the following ways:
- "paddingIndividual": true -> passes validation, but the toggle remains off and margins are ignored
- "paddingIndividual": 1 and "paddingIndividual": { "value": true } -> both throw a validation error: must be boolean (type; matching schema #/allOf/1/properties/layout/items/properties/paddingIndividual/type)
So Power BI validates the boolean correctly, reads the value, but does not honour it during rendering. Has anyone found a workaround, or is this a known bug?
Edit: I also have the same problem with borders for the cards (not the borders for the visual itself, but for the cards within the visual):
My code looks like this:
{
"visualStyles": {
"cardVisual": {
"*": {
"layout": [{
"topOuterMargin": 0,
"rightOuterMargin": 0,
"leftOuterMargin": 0,
"bottomOuterMargin": 0,
"paddingIndividual": true
}],
"outline": [{
"lineColor": { "solid": { "color": "#CCCCCC"}},
"show": true,
"weight": 1
}]
}
}
}
}
