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Using Theme to set Title Background & Font Color
Anonymous
I've received the below responce from Microsoft, it looks like it is currently not a function available with Themes.
We received an update from product team that We don’t yet support formatting the title of visuals through themes.
We have done extensive research and troubleshooting to understand the issue which you are facing. From our findings and after having discussion with product group team we got to know that this is the known issue and this is in our roadmap. Unfortunately we cannot provide any ETA at this moment. So we will be closing this case today. Appreciate your support and partnership with Microsoft. You are our valuable customer and we strive to assist you better and better every day.
Looks like we just have to wait.
I'm trying to achieve exactly the same thing but finding the documentation a bit of a nightmare to decipher.
Currently I'm trying to create a simple title color format for all visuals ao under visual styles we start with * * * so this is a generic theme but even after searching through the massive text dump at the end of the documentation I'm still struggling to find the property that allows me to set title color, the best I can manage is this:
"*":{
"*"{
"*"{
"cardTitle": { "color": { "#3a2178"}}
}
}
}
Which doesn't seem to work and is different to the documentation as the documentation doesn't really specify anywhere to even type a color. I'm so confused and a bit flustered.
Can anyone shed any light on this? It would be absolutely absurd if we have all of these options but cannot set the title background color and text color for all visuals.
Anonymous
I've tried using that tool, but it doesn't offer the option to change visuals title color.
Anonymous
I have also tried using something similar to what you've posted, however I'm unable to get that to work either.
Visual title/header colors and font colors seem like a basic function and I agree that the documentation released regarding themes is less than helpful. I would love to see some more detailed information on creating those JSON files so that I can trully create a visual standard across our organization.
Hi Anonymous,
Based on further test, some of properties seems not suport to use in custom theme.
Test result:
1. Use 'background' and 'foreground' to setting color, it works.
2. Use specific structure to setting specific properties. Power bi can import custom theme but not apply on the report.In addition, you can also contact to power bi team to known more about this.
Reference link:
Create custom color themes - Power BI Tips & Tricks #34
Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng
Hi Xiaoxin,
thanks for your reply but I'm afraid background and foreground only apply to matrix and table styles. What we are discussing are Titles for all visuals and the color of the Title background and the color of the font in the Title.
Our main gripe being that while yes you can set specific structure properties it looks like (although it's hard to know for sure as the documentation is unclear to me) you cannot alter the properties of titles in visuals. Despite titles being a common property of all visuals.
Getting in contact with the PBI team is a good idea, do you know the best way to do that?
Thanks,
Will