Forum Discussion
Colours Change when report is published to the Service
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
Advocate IIIprusi , 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?
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 π