Power BI – Format Multi-Row Card

Multi-Row cards in Power BI help us display multiple values, corresponding to different dynamic scenarios. For example, want to know the total population of the world, the average world’s economy, annual total deaths all in a single card, to achieve such tasks we use multi-row cards. Under the fields section, the first dropped column acts as the rows, and the further addition of columns, under the main column, refers to the columns of that card.  In this article, we will learn how to format a multi-row card in Power BI.

Formatting a Multi-Row Card In Power BI

After the successful, creation of a multi-row card in Power BI. We have multiple options to format it. For example, adding the title to a card, changing the color, and position of a card, and callout value in a multi-row card. We have been given a dataset, name, Employee, we have added 3 columns under the Fields section, where Employee Name represents the rows of the card, Salary and Bonus are the column references of the multi-row card. Using this card, we will explore every option of the multi-row card in Power BI. There are two types of Formatting in visualizations i.e. visual formatting and general formatting.

Visual Formatting

Visual formatting comprises three options, Callout value, and Category label, and Cards.

Callout Value

Callout value helps format the main content of the card.

The following are the steps:

Step 1: Click on the Callout Value option. A drop-down appears. We have multiple options available here. A font is an option used to select the type of text we want to show on the card, we can also set the size of the text, etc.

Step 2: To change the color of the callout values, click on the color option. Select the required color. For example, we have selected orange color, and all the numbers are changed to orange color.

Category label

Category label help customize the text written below the main text. For example, Sum of Salary and Sum of Bonus.

The following are the steps:

Step 1: Click on the Callout label option. A drop-down appears. We have multiple options available here. A font is an option used to select the type of text we want to choose for the callout label. We can also change the size of the callout value.

Step 2: To change the color of the callout label, click on the Color option. Select the required color. For example, blue in this case. The value of the callout label is changed to blue.

Cards

The Cards option is only present in multi-row cards and is not present in single-element cards. Click on the Cards option. We have three options available i.e. Title, Style, and Accent Bar. We can edit and style the card’s title. For example, Arushi, Gautam, is the card’s title, for other each subcategory. 

The following are the steps: 

Step 1: Click on the Title option. We have font, text size, and color to customize the title. For example, we can set the card’s title to blue. 

Step 2: Our next option is Style. It has multiple options i.e. Border position, the color of the border, background color, etc. The border position, adds the borders at the outline of each card sub-group. For example, if we check the box bottom, then we can see that border lines at the bottom appear on the card. We can also add padding, to each card’s title. 

Step 3: Accent bars are the vertical lines, present for each sub-group of the multi-row chart. These lines are different from, borders. We can change the color of the accent bars. For example, here it is changed to pink. 

General Formatting

There are multiple options in general formatting. For cards, we have options like Title, tooltip, effects, alt text, etc. We will look at each of the options in detail.

Property

The property option is generally present in every visualization. It contains three options, Size, position, and Advance options. We, generally do not use these properties, because all are easily accessible with mouse clicks. The size property helps to resize the visualization created. The position property changes the position of the visualization, in the report. The Advance option comprises adding a layer order, which is rarely used.

Title

The title formatting is present in every visualization. As the name suggests, it adds a heading to the visualization. Click on the slider to enable the title.

The following are the steps:

Step 1: Click on the Title option. A drop-down list appears. Add the title, under the Text section. For example, Employee Salary and Bonus. We can view in the image a title is added to the card. As done previously we can customize the size, font type of the card, etc.

Step 2: We can also change the color of the title. Under the text color, select the required color. For example, yellow in this case. The title color changes to yellow.

Effects

The effects section comprises three features i.e. Background, Visual Border, and Shadow. All works according to their names. The background adds a background color to the visualization, the Visual border adds a border around the visualization, and the shadow option creates a shadow on the outskirts of the visualization.

The following are the steps:

Step 1: Click on the Background option. Select the color of the background accordingly. For example, Black. We can view in the below image that the background of the card changed to black.

Header Icons

Header-icons are the options, present on the top of the visualization. For cards, there are two options, filter on visuals and more options. Click on the header-icons option, we will get various options, like Background, Border, and Icons. One can set its colors as per choice.

Alt Text

Alt text is a property present in each visualization. People generally misinterpret, alt text by its name, they think that alt text will be displayed when they hover at the visualization. It is for the persons, who cannot see the visuals, images etc. This option is only available if you are using a narrator in your system. When your narrator is active, then this alt text will be spoken by the system. Click on the Alt text, and type the required text.