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Custom branding/colour scheme of dashboard (custom css?)

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Jakub Kaczanowski on 08 Jan 2015 13:25:15

How sexy the data looks is sometimes more important than how accurate it is!

I love a light grey/dark grey colour scheme as much as the next person, but it be great to be able to brand the dashboard with the organisation colours/background watermark/logos etc. Maybe offer an option to modify the default CSS used - similar to how blogging sites like blogger allow you to change your page layouts/colours with a simple admin gui or completely change it by rewriting the CSS

Administrator on 18 May 2018 14:47:27

Hey everyone - I'm excited to share that we shipped dashboard theming this week: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-dashboard-theming-in-the-power-bi-service/. Give it a try and let us know if you have any feedback! Well, with Power BI, not only keep your data accurate but you can also now make it look - as Jakub originally stated in this idea - sexy. :)

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1a7c5e7e d0f0-4ff6-80c7-f2f42e0042a2 on 05 Jul 2020 22:28:26

RE: Custom branding/colour scheme of dashboard (custom css?)

I understand PowerBi is a fairly recent tool, still under heavy development, but it is very difficult to "fight" for it within the company, when they compare it against other options (Tableau in our case) and find this "simple" options missing in PowerBI.

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4b0dd8ee eade-4ab1-86d9-7b8b50cd8433 on 05 Jul 2020 22:26:39

RE: Custom branding/colour scheme of dashboard (custom css?)

This is a must have requirement for our customers looking to use power bi embedded within their software. Without it they will not use power bi embedded as their visualisation solution.

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05f6e94b e179-43af-8f20-ae949a11399b on 05 Jul 2020 22:26:29

RE: Custom branding/colour scheme of dashboard (custom css?)

Yes, can we please get this feature added!

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74b72195 0b2f-4ff6-b74c-0d0ce615d2b0 on 05 Jul 2020 22:26:29

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Having the ability of customizing our Dashboard backgrounds would be a big step, i would add to this that we could also customize dashboard tile background!

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8c125137 2c42-ea11-a812-000d3a579c33 on 05 Jul 2020 22:26:27

RE: Custom branding/colour scheme of dashboard (custom css?)

Hi Filip, today is July 27, 2016 ... any update on relative "timeframe"?

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7eab36d0 276a-4858-afb9-430963996865 on 05 Jul 2020 22:26:09

RE: Custom branding/colour scheme of dashboard (custom css?)

I would love to see the ability to add a default background across reports and dashboards, we have some great looking reports using a simple white background with some accents and it would be great to see that carry through the whole process. Plus I think we can all agree the process of having to map our company brand colours on every report is a bit of a faff

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6a058b1f 473c-4053-aca8-a85f5d4019dc on 05 Jul 2020 22:25:11

RE: Custom branding/colour scheme of dashboard (custom css?)

The default colour values could be better/smarter too.

I frequently riff on a pattern across multiple visualisations. Something similar to small multiples:

one measure, changing Y axis with same legend or
changing measure, same Y axis with same legend

I like to change the colour scheme from the default because I dont like the defaults (eg. I prefer the choices of iwanthue.com). To implement the theme, I have to manually set the colour for each legend value for every chart on the tab. It would be smart if I changed one chart and the service/desktop app applied the change to all visualisations on the tab.

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8c125137 2c42-ea11-a812-000d3a579c33 on 05 Jul 2020 22:24:54

RE: Custom branding/colour scheme of dashboard (custom css?)

Hi Filip, today is June 28, 2016 ... any update on relative "timeframe"?

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753396d2 be1e-47be-95ef-1e86b85c3691 on 05 Jul 2020 22:23:35

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Yes it is needed. We should have control on how the tiles and dashboard should be display.

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753396d2 be1e-47be-95ef-1e86b85c3691 on 05 Jul 2020 22:23:35

RE: Custom branding/colour scheme of dashboard (custom css?)

We have a lot more control on reports. But when it come to dashboard, the effort we put for the reports wested due to lack of control on dashboard. As Report will be have a white bagraound and fixed ratio of size for tile