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Anonymous
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7 years ago
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KPI Visual's text size suddenly too small

We are using the standard KPI visual on several high-profile reports in our business.

Today I have noticed, that the font has shrunk beyond readability on one of the reports. All I've done was making a few changes and re-publishing with latest Power BI Desktop (April 2018).

Please see the attached comparison of before and after. All looks ok in Desktop, but once published, the font becomes very tiny (don't mind different number, that is due to data not being up to date in the desktop variant:

 

Small font in current report in the serviceprevious size, and current size in PBI Desktop

 

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Yeah you guys are right. Happily specifying the fontSize for the container in your theme does seem to take hold in the service even though it has no effect in Desktop. So you can do edit the theme and somewhere inside the "visutalStyles" container add:

     

    	  "kpi":{
		 "*":{
			 "indicator":[
				{
					"fontSize":48
				}
			]
		 }
	  },

    Super annoying that this needs fixing on every report though.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    7 years ago

    Thank you for reporting this. I have the same problem.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    7 years ago

    Well I'm glad it's not just me! I'm having this same problem all of a sudden and can't figure out what might be causing it.

  • v-frfei-msft's avatar
    v-frfei-msft
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    7 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

     

    Based on my test using Power BI version : 2.68.5432.761 64-bit (April 2019).  I cannot reproduce your issue here. Could you please try to delete the visual and recreate it again. Or you can delete the dataset and republish the report.

     

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      7 years ago

      Hello, I am running 2.68.5432.661 64-bit (April 2019), however using the scenario that you have (create dummy table, visual and publish), I couldn't reproduce it either. I would recommend checking any already published reports with KPI visuals (surely you have access to some). Based on replies in this thread, I'm not the only one experiencing this.

       

      New findings:

      - all the reports (even the ones I haven't recently republished) are affected by this, so it looks like a PBI service issue rather than desktop. 

      - I have tried deleting and re-creating the visual and republishing > still same issue

      - I have tried publishing to a new workspace > still the same issue

       

      I think this actually needs a proper root cause analysis, if you're telling me I need to go and re-create all our published reports with KPI visuals on them to fix it, sorry, that's not acceptable.

       

      Thanks

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
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        7 years ago

        OK, I believe I have narrowed it down - it must have something to do with custom themes.

        I have used the same custom theme for my testing report as for the one with the issue.

         

        Below is the code for the .json file of one of our corporate themes (which has worked perfectly fine for over 2 years until now). If you import it in your PBIX, you should see the same behavior.

        {
  "name": "Multi1",
  "dataColors": [
    "#E2A84E",
    "#A1A849",
    "#649F5E",
    "#329077",
    "#2E7C85",
    "#4E647F",
    "#634B67",
    "#653745",
    "#00AEB9",
    "#5ABAC4",
    "#007184",
    "#8ECBD2",
    "#00B5C7",
    "#38C0EE",
    "#009DDE"
  ],
  "background": "#FFFFFF",
  "foreground": "#3A6108",
  "tableAccent": "#329077",
 "visualStyles": {
    "*": {
      "*": {
        "*": [
          {
            "responsive": true,
            "wordWrap": true,
            "fontSize": 9,
            "urlIcon": true
          }
        ],
        "categoryAxis": [
          {
            "showAxisTitle": true
          }
        ],
        "valueAxis": [
          {
            "showAxisTitle": true
          }
        ],
        "categoryLabels": [
          {
            "show": true
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "card": {
      "*": {
        "labels": [
          {
            "fontSize": 20
          }
        ],
        "categoryLabels": [
          {
            "fontSize": 12,
            "Color": "#006873"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "pieChart": {
      "*": {
        "legend": [
          {
            "show": true,
            "showTitle": true
          }
        ],
        "labels": [
          {
            "labelStyle": "Data value, percent of total"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "lineStackedColumnComboChart": {
      "*": {
        "labels": [
          {
            "show": true
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}