Report colors changing when published

[Anonymous]

So I've noticed that on several occasions when I publish a report to a group, the colors within a visualization will change to something other than what I set them to be. I've specifically noticed these on line and bar charts. 

I try not to change any colors in a visualization from what is set automatically by Power BI. But there have been times where I need to make a change to the automatted selected colors (still keeping within the spectrum of colors available in the default Power BI listing). When I publish the report, the colors that were modified will sometimes change. I have to edit the published report by hand to change some of the colors back to what they were in the desktop file. 

Any suggestions on a fix, would be great. It seems like there's a bug that doesn't allow colors to stay "locked in" when reports are published.

I'm curious to know if others have encountered this.

Thanks,

Jonathan 

[OneWithQuestion]

Yeah, it did not seem to work sadly....

EDIT: I should have clarified, this is happening with pie charts and Treemaps as well.

[xaitike]

I experienced this, as well. My forum post about is here. Forum user @StewartR noted that it seems to happen for charts that don't have an axis. StewartR also provided a workaround if you are unable to modify the charts (I noticed that for some of my charts, I couldn't change the wrong color once it was published to the Power BI service). 

Workaround: Add some data to your chart's Axis. Set the color, then remove the data from the Axis field. 

[Anonymous]

I'm using Zoomcharts Donut Chart and publishing is changing the color to white, making the fraction obscure.
OneWithQuestion (below) also mentions using Pie Charts and TreeMaps.
Hoping to figure this out soon.
Thanks for your guidance.

[Anonymous]

I changed the color from a custom looking color to a more common color and it worked for the first level donut filter, but changed a color in the 3rd level to white.

Changed the deep red custom color to a tannish (light brown/grey) color and it worked - the colors in the published report were the same as the colors in the desktop report (Zoomcharts Donut Chart).

[Anonymous]

I have experienced this as well.

One a few reports, it happens consistently.

On others, it never happens and the colors match PBI Desktop.

[rhouse]

I experienced this for the first time today. I went back into the desktop version and re-selected all of the data colors in one of the charts. Then I republished and the colors appeared correctly in the chart where I reselected the colors and incorrectly in the other chart. Then I did the same for the other chart and republished again and all the colors appeared correctly. This does appear to be a bug. Fortunately I did not have a lot of colors and charts to reselect so this workaround appears to have worked for me pretty easily. 

[KumarDarmesh]

I've encountered that issue every now and then. Not a big issue though.

[thehose2000]

Not an Issue??????????????????????????

Maybe for you pal but I'm getting a lot of chrap for the colors not being the same and all this after I updated Power BI...

When will this be fixed...??