Cards

Cards

Working with Cards and Multi-row Cards in Power BI

When to use

Cards and multi-row cards are useful for showing summary statistics.  Single point cards are also especially useful, as they can be used to set alerts in the Power BI service, whereas multi-row cards cannot.

Instructions

Creating Cards

• Select the card (or multi-row card) visual
• Drag a measure into the Fields area in the Visualizations pane
• Be aware the Cards can only have one field whereas multi-row cards can have many fields

Advantages of Cards over Multi-Row cards

• You can change the name displayed on a card (multi-row inherit the raw measure name only)
• Multi-row cards have very limited formatting options (no alignment, all measures must be same color, etc.)

Moving labels above the values

• Turn off the Category Label
• Turn on the Title and name the card appropriately
• Format as desired

Hints & tips

Tricks for formatting and aligning cards

• Format the card text size under the Visual > Callout Value group
• Format the card titles under the General > Title group
• Turn on gridlines (View > Gridlines) for easier alignment
• Select multiple cards by holding down the CTRL key or Shift key, then selecting them
• Align or distribute visuals via the Format > Align menu