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Data Colours change in Power BI Service
Hi,
I find my a particular bar graph in my Power BI desktop has the data colour as Blue. After publishing to the service, the data colour changes to maroon. Tried everything.. doesn't seem to remain blue. How to fix this? Is there a bug?
Thanks,
Aasheesh
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I created an issue about this yesterday. There seems to be a bug in the service.
I can reproduce and confirm this issue occurs when published with one value.
As an additional issue it is now also not possible to use a color other than the standard color (with a single value) in Power BI desktop with the latest update (May 2017).
I have created a workaround by adding a dummy value in order to use more than one value.
This bug seems to be back and it's killing me!
My bar chart and pie chart colors change when I publish to the web, and my image file is missing completely.
Help!!!
I had the same issue with custom colours set in the Desktop then changing upon publishing to the service. I am pretty sure I used Format Painter to apply the colours to a new visual from an exisiting one with the correct pallette, so I think this was the cause in my case.
My fix was to go into each colour and open the custom colour dialogue, delete the last character of the hex string and then immediatly replace it (tricked it into thinking there was a colour change) and hit enter. Had to do this for each colour in each new visual but it stuck upon publishing to the service.
Cheers
Gavin
I do see similar issue when I publish the report. I have pie chart and clustered bar chart with multiple values, I manually edited the color in clustered bar chart to sync with pie chart. Once I deploy this report these changes are gone. This there any work around for this issue?
Hi Anonymous,
I can't reproduce your issue, it works on my side.(the custom color not changed, other color has changed)
ServiceDesktop
Which version of power bi desktop you used? If you re-publish a report with sample content, does this issue appears again?
My test environment: Win10 64bit, power bi Version: 2.45.4704.442 64-bit (April 2017).Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng
- Recently had a flash back of the changing color issue in the service also, however this time it was just for a single report, so I suspect that report had either been altered at some point or perhaps had used an older version of Pbi desktop. All other reports that use the same theme was working fine... Reapplying the custom theme and publishing again fixed all visuals....
This worked for me, ....clicked on another theme, back to my custom theme, republished.... and solved!! Colours correct in the Service
Thanks for sharing
Hi,
I've been publishing a report for a while now and I just published the last refreshed version and the colours have changed. I tried changing the colours both in the desktop version and online and once I publish they revert back to random colours. It's only 1 visual (line chart with multiple lines) so far affected. Nothing has resolved the issue. This report uses colour references thorughout various tables and other charts so I really need to fix it. Please help!
I am experiencing the same issue. Colors displayed in the service is different than the desktop version after publishing. Seems to have changed this weekend.
I just tried republishing the original report that I created this thread for, and the colours are working fine. cv_01 , Anonymous , have you tried 'modifying' the colours by opening the Custom Color box, and just deleting & retyping the last character of the hexadecimal colour code? It updates something inside of Power BI, and is what fixed the issue for me originally.
Hi all, Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous cv_01 Anonymous Update!
Today without any additional work (not even refreshing the dataset), my reports appeared with the right colours. It looks like there was a bug which was sorted by Microsoft on the background. I'll keep an eye anyway as it may appear again. I hope yours are fixed as well in the coming hours but let me know.
Kind regards,
NDE
