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jason_hill
Advocate I
9 years ago

Pie Chart Colours Keep Changing

We have created a number of dashboards and have pinned live pages for each of the tab from the report. When you first open Power BI, each pie chart is formatted with the standard colour palette. Howe...
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v-qiuyu-msft
Community Support
9 years ago

Hi jason_hill,

 

Based on my test, after we create the pie chart, the data colors are specified based on below properties.

 

 

And both report and dashboard will display the pie chart in the same color in my workspace or my team mate's workspace after shared with her. So each slice's color shouldn't change automatically.

 

In your scenario, where did you create the report? Create it on Power BI Service directly, or on Power BI Desktop then publish to service? If in desktop, please share desktop version. It would be best if you could share more information for us to reproduce it.

 

Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu

  • jason_hill's avatar
    jason_hill
    Advocate I
    9 years ago

    Hi,

     

    The report was created in BI desktop. The first dashboard you view in the BI online service displays fine, but when you switch to a different dashboard from the left nav, then the colours go screwy in the next dashboard. If you refresh the page though, then the colours correct.

     

    The information in our dashboards is commercially sensitive so I can't post you examples here but can send them privately of that helps.

     

    Regards,

     

    Jason

    • v-qiuyu-msft's avatar
      v-qiuyu-msft
      Community Support
      9 years ago

      Hi jason_hill,

       

      Please restart the computer and login Power BI Service in Edge, then publish the attached .PBIX file to Power BI Service and pin live page to different dashboards. In my environment, this file works fine in two dashboards with Edge browser.

       

      Best Regards,
      Qiuyun Yu

      • jason_hill's avatar
        jason_hill
        Advocate I
        9 years ago

        Yes, that works fine.

         

        I am not sure why our dashboards are behaving differently. We are using direct query to pull data from Azure SQL but other than that we are just talking about standard pie charts with default colours assigned to the segments. They are completely different pbix files published to different workspace groups in the service so not sure if that has any bearing.