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Anonymous
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11 years ago
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How do you change the data label number format in Power BI Charts?

I can't seem to find out how to change the number formatting for data labels in Power BI charts. It seems to only have the format of "#.##k" (e.g. 100,000 is displayed as 100k).    I have to be ove...
  • cdotzenrod's avatar
    cdotzenrod
    11 years ago

    I tried the following with one of my calcuations in "Power BI Desktop" and I was able to get the type of formatting that you were looking for vs. the default #.##K type formatting you had in your screenshot.  Unfortuneatly that only works for card style tyles since it changes the numeric format to text (And text style calcs can't be used in bar graphs and other charts) 

     

    Total Received = FORMAT(SUM(Receipts[Receipts]),"#,###")   -- This measure formula rendered like this:

     

    text label.PNG

     

    Based on the current version the only changes you can make to label formatting for measures are the following:

     

    data labels.PNG

     

    Hope this helped.  I would expect that we'll see more control for formatting in a future build at some point although I don't know when that will happen.  

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cdotzenrod
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11 years ago

What is your data source?  Its easy to adust if you built the model with Power BI Desktop.  I can comment further once I have a sense of what the data source is and how the connection was published to the portal. Changing data formats on the fly from the portal is not currently possible but there are options at the model level.  

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    11 years ago

    The data source is a simple flat table in Excel. I'm then pulling that table into Power BI Designer like you mentioned. 

     

    In Power BI Designer, I created a simple measure that uses COUNTROWS to give me the total number of row instances in the table, which I am simply displaying in a line chart to view the data over a 12-month period (e.g. Monthly Users Per Month). 

     

    So, I'm using a measure as my 'Values' field for the line chart visualization, and not a column from the source table (I'm not sure if that's why I can't format the numbers correctly or not). 

     

    Please see the screen shot below for more details.

     

    Again, I'm simply trying to change the "66.22k" to "66,220" and so on. 

     

    Thanks!

     

    powerbi.png

     

     

    • cdotzenrod's avatar
      cdotzenrod
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      11 years ago

      I tried the following with one of my calcuations in "Power BI Desktop" and I was able to get the type of formatting that you were looking for vs. the default #.##K type formatting you had in your screenshot.  Unfortuneatly that only works for card style tyles since it changes the numeric format to text (And text style calcs can't be used in bar graphs and other charts) 

       

      Total Received = FORMAT(SUM(Receipts[Receipts]),"#,###")   -- This measure formula rendered like this:

       

      text label.PNG

       

      Based on the current version the only changes you can make to label formatting for measures are the following:

       

      data labels.PNG

       

      Hope this helped.  I would expect that we'll see more control for formatting in a future build at some point although I don't know when that will happen.  

      • Banrahul's avatar
        Banrahul
        Regular Visitor
        10 years ago

        This was really helpful. Do you know how can we format multiple columns in Power BI through a single querry?

    • andre's avatar
      andre
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      11 years ago

      click on a chart then click on the paint brush icon ( on the Visualizations section on the right) to see the formatting options.  then click on Data Labels and now you can adjust the format.

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
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        11 years ago

        Thanks for the response, but this does not allow you to adjust the number format in a chart. All you can do here is change the number of decimal places. For example, instead of "50.25k", you can change it to "50.3k", etc. 

         

        I'm trying to change "50.3k" to "50,300", etc. 

         

        There is a "Display" drop-down button in this options section, but it is grayed out and inactive. 

         

        Thanks!