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Anonymous
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8 years ago
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Colours Change when report is published to the Service

Hi - I have a visual (the error appears in quite a few visuals however) where I have the colour set in the desktop but this changes when published to online. see below:       As above, ...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I believe I have resolved this now.

     

    Power BI desktop crashed on me recently and when I restarted it, I had lost some customization settings.  What I didn't notice was that the "Switch Themes" button had disappeared and that the Options, Preview Features settings had all been turned off.

     

    I turned "Custom report themes" back on and re-imported my custom theme (I also clicked Switch Theme, Default Theme, but don't know if that was necessary) and now my colors are preserved upon Publishing.

     

    Dale

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prusi
Regular Visitor
6 years ago

Hi,

A few months ago I faced this issue and using the "Custom report themes" option solved it for me.

Unfortunately in the May 2020 version of Power BI desktop this option is not available anymore (perhaps it was removed even earlier but I've just noticed it).

 

Does anyone have any idea what should be the solution now?

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johncpratt
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6 years ago

prusi , I just had the same thing happen to me with the May 2020 PBI Desktop release.  I was editing a report that I have had for 3 years.  I deployed multiple changes to the report server successfully, then suddenly with one deployment multiple visuals that had specific colors set for 2 measures flipped the colors (same colors, just reversed, even though I specfically set the colors in the designer).  Only the visuals displaying the same 2 measures flipped (pie charts, column charts, and ribbon charts).  The designer still had the correct colors specified, and the report looked fine in Desktop.

 

What worked for me:  After finding this thread, I forced changes to the colors on only one of the visuals with an issue.  Completely different colors.  Then I saved the desktop file (locally) but kept the file open.  Then I set the colors for that one visual back to the original colors, saved the report locally, then published it to my report server.  When I pulled up the report from report server, ALL of the visuals that had flipped colors were back to the original scheme.

 

Wow!  Is this 2020 or what?

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    prusi
    Regular Visitor
    6 years ago

    Thanks johncpratt.

    I had a similar workaround: just publishing the (open) local file until it's shown correctly in Power BI service. Usually doing this twice or 3 times is enough πŸ˜„