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Anonymous
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6 years ago
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Format Painter not working with new update

Hi,   I updated the power BI version released in October and since then, we realized that the format painter isn't working. This makes formatting a real problem. Any solutions? 
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    Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

    I test with a few scenarios but the format painter seems not works for type custom visuals. (official visuals[same type and different type]: succeed, official to custom: fail, custom visuals[same type and different type]: fail)
    According to the test result, I think the format painter may not work on custom visuals. 
    Regards,

    XIaoxin Sheng

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Anonymous Are you referring to adding custom colors? I ran into this yesterday and it appears that it just kicks you out if you include the "#" in the hex code. If you use only the number and paste that in, it takes it and works.

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    Anonymous
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    6 years ago

    Hi Seth , 

    I really appreciate your help.

    I haven't used any custom colors. I just used the card visual across a page with different visuals interacting with it (something I have been doing in various reports for a while to highlight the key numbers), and when I tried just copying the format from one to another, I saw that the paintbrush icon which should show up on clicking the format painter is not showing up, and this happened during the first report I started working on after the update.

    Any ideas on what might be causing this?

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      Anonymous
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      6 years ago

      Hi Anonymous ,

      What version of power bi desktop are you test? Can you please share a sample pbix file for test?

      BTW, I test with 2.75.5649.582 64-bit (November 2019) and the painter works well. (windows store version)


      Regards,

      Xiaoxin Sheng

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        Anonymous
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        6 years ago

        Hi Anonymous , 

         

        Turns out that format painter wasn't working only with additional visuals from the marketplace. Not something usual, the visual I was using was a timeline 2.1.1 slicer. This is still not working for some reason though I just copied and pasted the slicer across with changes in data manually for now.