BUG: Formatting options are unavailable for this visual

[nleuck_101]

Hello,

Is Power BI doing anything to fix this bug? It seemed like it went away for a while not it's back.

[v-xiaoyan-msft]

Hi  @nleuck_101 ,

You can try the following steps to add formatting options:

1.Select the Format page.
2.In Visual Studio Code, open the capabilities.json file.
3.Before the dataViewMappings array, add objects (after line 8). "objects": {}
4.Save the capabilities.json file.
5.In Power BI, review the formatting options again.
If the issue persists, you can try updating Power BI desktop to the latest version1. If you’re using a grouped item, you might encounter this issue inconsistently. A workaround is to ungroup the visualization, make formatting changes, then re-group it with the other visualizations.

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Best regards.
Community Support Team_Caitlyn

[nleuck_101]

@v-xiaoyan-msft 

This has nothing to do with custom visuals. This is on the visuals within Power BI. It looks like I have the latest version of Power BI.

[v-xiaoyan-msft]

Hi @nleuck_101 ,

Thank you for the information we will do further investigation and I will feed back here with any progress.

Best regards.
Community Support Team_ Caitlyn

[057Sophie]

I have the same issue with simple matrix visuals. Hard to find a workaround.

Sometime just selecting antoher visual and come back to this one can help.

Sometime I need to swap to another page and come back so that the format pane will be displayed without error.

Sometime there is nothing I can do excep close and reopen.

[mpataki32]

I am having the same issue 😞