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GibsonPBI
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8 years ago

Power BI Embedded Custom Color Themes in Reports do not promote

I am new to using Power BI Embedded.    I have been working on developing dashboards that will be promoted to a portal.  In the desktop version, I successfully have applied a custom color scheme us...
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Anonymous
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8 years ago

GibsonPBI,

I am unable to reproduce this issue. Do you use Power BI Desktop August release? Could you please share the JSON file so that I can test?

Regards,
Lydia

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    GibsonPBI
    Frequent Visitor
    8 years ago

    I made sure that I had the August release.  

     

    I have attached screenshots of the 3 various steps in the process.

     

    From PowerBI DesktopFrom PowerBI OnlineAfter getting the code from "Publish to the Web"

     

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      GibsonPBI
      Frequent Visitor
      8 years ago

      I could not see how to attach the JSON file, so I pasted it below:

       

      {
        "name": "CHPA Analytics",
        "dataColors": [
          "#0071B9",
          "#A4CF5F",
          "#DD8E07",
          "#71B1D1",
          "#AE94BA",
          "#67B9AD",
          "#FFF48B",
          "#63666A",
          "#5CBAE5"
        ],
        "background": "#FFFFFF",
        "foreground": "#8AA8D7",
        "tableAccent": "#3A75C4",
        "visualStyles": {
          "*": {
            "*": {
              "*": [
                {
                  "fontSize": 10,
                  "fontFamily": "Arial",
                  "color": {
                    "solid": {}
                  }
                }
              ],
              "general": [
                {
                  "responsive": true
                }
              ]
            }
          },
          "filledMap": {
            "*": {
              "legend": [
                {
                  "show": true,
                  "position": "Left",
                  "showTitle": true,
                  "labelColor": {
                    "solid": {
                      "color": "#561912"
                    }
                  },
                  "fontFamily": "Arial",
                  "fontSize": 8
                }
              ]
            }
          }
        }
      }

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        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        8 years ago

        GibsonPBI,

        Based on my test, the issue is caused by triple wildcard in the JSON file. It is recommended to update the theme file to be more specific with the visualStyles section, replacing one of the wildcards with a specific entity (visual type or formatting card name). Please check attached JSON file. Using it, custom theme will retain after we publish report to web.

         "visualStyles": {
            "*": {
              "*": {
                "*": [


        I got response from PG:

        As the Theme feature is in preview, and the triple wildcard is technically working as expected, there is no “fix” coming. We also identified a popular third-party Power BI Theme Generator website (non-Microsoft) and asked the owners to change their tool to avoid creating triple wildcards.

         



        Regards,
        Lydia