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This article provides a comprehensive and detailed exposition of all format settings available for the (new) Card visual in Power BI Desktop.

Serving as a reference guide, we've listed the multitude of customization options at your disposal, enabling you to tailor your data visualization to your specific needs. From layout enhancements, callout values, and reference labels, to advanced card settings, and image controls, we’ll cover every setting for (new) Card visual formatting.

Whether you’re a seasoned Power BI user or new to data visualization, if you're looking to understand all the format options available for the (new) Card visual, this guide has got you covered as you explore how to tailor the (new) Card visual to perfectly fit your needs.

Important

The (new) Card visual is currently in preview and only available for Power BI Desktop. This information relates to a prerelease product that may be substantially modified before it's released. Microsoft makes no warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to the information provided here.

Prerequisites

To format and customize your column chart in Power BI Desktop, select the Format visual icon in the Visualizations Pane This grants access to the vast array of formatting options under the Visual and General tabs, enabling you to refine both appearance and functionality of your column charts to meet your specific needs.

Power BI Desktop screenshot showing the Visualizations pane, Format visual icon, and both the Visual and General tabs highlighted.

Format settings

Layout settings

Layout

With the ability to configure and display multiple cards in a single container, these settings provide comprehensive control over the layout and appearance of each card.

Arrangement

Choose from three options to establish how you want the layout arrangement to appear in your visual:

  • Single Column: Stacks cards vertically.
  • Single Row: Arranges all cards in a horizontal line.
  • Grid: Arranges cards in a matrix format.
Style

Two style options to customize the appearance of the visual:

  • Cards: Data points are displayed as individual cards.
  • Table: Data points appear in a tabular format, similar to a traditional spreadsheet.
Max rows shown

Defines the maximum number of rows displayed, from 1-99, when selecting the Grid layout.

Columns shown

Defines the maximum number of columns displayed, from 1-99, when selecting the Grid layout.

Max cards shown

Defines the maximum number of cards displayed, ranging from 1-99, and is accessible when using either the Single row or Single column arrangement.

Customize spacing

This setting is available with the Grid arrangement, and after selecting the Cards style. When enabled, you can specify both the Space between rows, and the Space between columns.

Space between rows

Defines space between rows of 0-100 pixels. This setting is available after choosing Grid arrangement, with Cards style, and the Customize spacing toggle has been enabled.

Space between columns

Defines space between columns of 0-100 pixels. This setting is available after choosing Grid arrangement, with Cards style, and the Customize spacing toggle has been enabled.

Space between cards

Defines space between cards of 0-40 pixels. This setting is available after choosing Grid arrangement, with Cards style, and the Customize spacing toggle is not enabled.

Shape

The Shape settings let you customize the appearance of your visual by adjusting shape-related properties using the key options you can find in this section.

Rounded corners

The Rounded corners setting lets you customize the corner curvature of your visual from 0 pixels (square corners) to 50 pixels (fully rounded) by using the slider or numerical input for more precise control towards achieving the desired look for your visual.

Customize corners

The Customize corners toggle lets you adjust the curvature of each individual corner of your visual. When this toggle is enabled, you can specify different radius values for the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners, providing even greater flexibility in designing unique and visually appealing shapes that align with your report's overall design.

Top left corner

This setting is accessible only when the Customize corners toggle is activated. It allows for the top left corner of the shape to be rounded or snipped, adjustable from 0 pixels (square corner) to 50 pixels (fully rounded or snipped).

Top right corner

This setting is accessible only when the Customize corners toggle is activated. It allows for the top right corner of the shape to be rounded or snipped, adjustable from 0 pixels (square corner) to 50 pixels (fully rounded or snipped).

Bottom left corner

This setting is accessible only when the Customize corners toggle is activated. It allows for the bottom left corner of the shape to be rounded or snipped, adjustable from 0 pixels (square corner) to 50 pixels (fully rounded or snipped).

Bottom right corner

This setting is accessible only when the Customize corners toggle is activated. It allows for the bottom right corner of the shape to be rounded or snipped, adjustable from 0 pixels (square corner) to 50 pixels (fully rounded or snipped).

Background

The Background toggle, when enabled, lets you customize the background of your visual to enhance appearance and readability.

Color

This setting allows you to customize the color by either selecting from the color palette or applying conditional formatting.

Transparency

The Transparency setting allows you to adjust the transparency level, ranging from 0% for full opacity to 100% for complete transparency, enabling you to achieve either a subtle or a more pronounced effect.

Background image

The Background image control lets you browse your device to add an image file that will be displayed in the background.

Image fit

The Image fit setting offers three options as shown in the dropdown menu:

  • Normal: This option maintains the original size of the image. If the image is larger than the available area, it will be cropped accordingly to fit the area.
  • Fit: This option scales down the image to fit within the available area while maintaining the original aspect ratio. While no part of the image is cropped, empty space may appear around the image if its aspect ratio differs from the area you’re fitting the image into.
  • Fill: This option stretches or compresses the image to completely fill the available area. The image’s aspect ratio might not be preserved, which can lead to distortion if the aspect ratio of the image is different from the area being filled.
Image transparency

The Image transparency setting allows you to adjust the transparency level, ranging from 0% for full opacity to 100% for complete transparency, enabling you to achieve either a subtle or a more pronounced effect.

Border and gridlines

The Border and gridlines settings, only available when Layout style is set to Table, lets you customize the color, style, thickness, transparency, and rows shown, to enhance the visual's appearance and ensuring it aligns with your report's overall design.

Customize lines

The Customize lines toggle, when enabled, displays two groups of the same controls. The first group of controls applies the format settings to the Borders, and the second group of controls applies the format settings to the Gridlines. When toggled off, the format options are applied to both Borders and Gridlines together.

Line style

The menu provides three selections to customize the line style pattern:

  • Solid: A continuous line without breaks.
  • Dashed: A line consisting of a series of short segments.
  • Dotted: A line made up of a sequence of dots.
Color

This setting allows you to customize the color by either selecting from the color palette or applying conditional formatting.

Transparency

The Transparency setting allows you to adjust the transparency level, ranging from 0% for full opacity to 100% for complete transparency, enabling you to achieve either a subtle or a more pronounced effect.

Width

The Width setting allows you to define the thickness in pixels, offering a range from 0 (none) to 12 (widest).

Overflow

The Overflow settings provide flexibility in displaying more cards that don't fit within the initial view. You can define settings to allow users to flip through paginated cards, or scroll continuously, either vertically or horizontally, to view all the data within the visual.

Overflow style

Choose between a Paginated or Continuous scroll overflow style:

  • Paginated: divides the cards into pages.
  • Continuous scroll: lets users scroll through the cards seamlessly.
Overflow direction

This option lets you set the scroll direction to either Vertical or Horizontal, depending on how you want users to navigate through the overflowed cards.

Padding

The Padding settings allow you to adjust the space between the content of the card and its border on all sides of the card’s content to create a more balanced and visually appealing layout. Increasing the padding can give the content more breathing room, while decreasing it can make the content appear more compact.

Padding

The Padding controls let you specify the amount of padding space, from 0-40 pixels, on each side.

Callout values settings

Apply settings to

The Apply settings to feature enables you to configure formatting options globally across all series, or target them specifically. Certain formatting options are exclusive to the all series.

Series

The dropdown menu becomes available when a data field is specified in the legend or when multiple fields are present on the y-axis. This feature ensures that users can apply the necessary settings to either all series or individual ones.

Values

The visibility of Values can be toggled on or off to make them apparent or to hide them. When toggled on, you can access and adjust all the Values settings shown here.

Font

The font’s appearance is determined by three distinct controls:

  • Font family: Select from preset font families.
  • Font size: Font size can be adjusted within a range of 8 to 60 points.
  • Font style: With normal being the default, you can also choose bold, italic, or underlined.
Color

This setting allows you to customize the color by either selecting from the color palette or applying conditional formatting.

Transparency

The Transparency setting allows you to adjust the transparency level, ranging from 0% for full opacity to 100% for complete transparency, enabling you to achieve either a subtle or a more pronounced effect.

Horizontal alignment

This setting controls the horizontal alignment, allowing you to choose between left, center, or right. It’s accessible when using Row layout with Sentence style, or with Column layout arrangement.

Text wrap

This toggle, when enabled, allows text to automatically continue to the next line when it reaches the end of the current line within the space allocated. It’s important to what limits exist, even when this setting is enabled, as text can still be truncated in some instances.

Display units

The menu offers several options for defining the Display units:

  • Auto: The unit adjusts dynamically based on the data value's magnitude.
  • None: Displays the value as is, without any unit.
  • Thousands: Divides the value by 1,000 and appends a "K" suffix.
  • Millions: Divides the value by 1,000,000 and appends an "M" suffix.
  • Billions: Divides the value by 1,000,000,000 and appends a "B" suffix.
  • Trillions: Divides the value by 1,000,000,000,000 and appends a "T" suffix.
  • Custom: Allows user to customize how data values are displayed in the visual. When the Custom option is selected, a Format code input field becomes as shown below.
Format code

The Format code setting, available only when selecting custom display units, allows you to customize the display format of values using custom format codes (based on Excel format codes) or apply conditional formatting. Format codes change how numbers, dates, and other data types are presented, such as formatting numbers as currency with $#,###M or dates as yyyy-MM-dd, ensuring your data is presented in a manner tailored to the specific needs of your visual.

Value decimal places

Allows you to specify the number of decimal places for values, with a selectable range from 0 to 15.

Show blank as

This setting allows users to customize how blank or missing values are displayed in visualizations. When left blank, nothing is displayed however, users can specify custom text to represent blank values.

Label

The Label toggle, when enabled, allows you to display labels for your callout values. You can customize the appearance of these labels in your visualizations, including options for changing the displayed text, label hierarchy, font, text size, color, and alignment of the labels, ensuring they precisely match the report.

Text

The default text for the Label title is automatically derived from the name of the data field used. However, you can customize this title to a different text or you might decide to apply conditional formatting.

Heading

The dropdown menu allows you to select the hierarchical level of the label, with options ranging from Normal to Heading 2 through Heading 6, to organize content in a structured manner, providing a hierarchy for easy navigation and reading.

Font

The font’s appearance is determined by three distinct controls:

  • Font family: Select from preset font families.
  • Font size: Font size can be adjusted within a range of 8 to 60 points.
  • Font style: With normal being the default, you can also choose bold, italic, or underlined.
Color

This setting allows you to customize the color by either selecting from the color palette or applying conditional formatting.

Transparency

The Transparency setting allows you to adjust the transparency level, ranging from 0% for full opacity to 100% for complete transparency, enabling you to achieve either a subtle or a more pronounced effect.

Display units

The menu offers several options for defining the Display units:

  • Auto: The unit adjusts dynamically based on the data value's magnitude.
  • None: Displays the value as is, without any unit.
  • Thousands: Divides the value by 1,000 and appends a "K" suffix.
  • Millions: Divides the value by 1,000,000 and appends an "M" suffix.
  • Billions: Divides the value by 1,000,000,000 and appends a "B" suffix.
  • Trillions: Divides the value by 1,000,000,000,000 and appends a "T" suffix.
  • Custom: Allows user to customize how data values are displayed in the visual. When the Custom option is selected, a Format code input field becomes as shown below.
Position

With this dropdown menu, users have two options to specify the position of the label in relation to the data value:

  • Above Value: Positions the label above the data value.
  • Below Value: Positions the label below the data value.
Space between label and value

This setting adjusts the space between the label and the data value from 0 to 40 pixels.

Match value alignment

When enabled, and the Apply settings to is set to Series all, this toggle ensures that the horizontal alignment of all labels matches the alignment of the data values. When the toggle isn't enabled, the horizontal alignment options are available, allowing you to align the text to your liking.

Align baselines

This toggle ensures the baselines of the labels are aligned when displaying multiple series in a chart to maintain a uniform look across all labels. This feature is only available when All series is selected in the Apply settings to option.

Layout

The Layout section is designed to enhance the presentation of your data visualizations by offering settings for vertical alignment and callout size as shown here.

Vertical alignment

This setting controls the vertical alignment, allowing you to choose between top, middle, or bottom.

Callout size

This setting allows you to establish the size, as a percentage of the card size, from 0% to 100%.

Reference labels settings

Apply settings to

The Apply settings to feature enables you to configure formatting options globally across all series, or target them specifically. Certain formatting options are exclusive to the all series.

Select series

With the Apply setting to menu, you can select which series to customize. When All series is selected, you can customize Options, Title, Value, Detail, Divider, Background, Layout, and Spacing. When selecting an individual series, only the Title, Value, Detail, Divider, and Background menus are available enabling you to customize formatting for each series individually.

Add label

This button allows you to add labels to the selected Series by adding data fields from the Data pane. This Add label button is available when you have selected an individual series, but is deactivated when the Apply settings to is set for Series all.

Select label

After adding one or more labels to an individual Series, this menu allows you to customize Title, Value, Detail, Divider, and Background when All labels is selected. If selecting an individual label, only the Title, Value, and Detail menus are available enabling you to customize labels individually.

Options

The Options menu is available when Apply settings to is set for All series.

Position

With this dropdown menu, users have two options to specify the position of the Reference label:

  • Below callout: Positions label below the Callout value.
  • Right of callout: Positions label the the right of the Callout value.

Title

The Title toggle, when enabled, controls the visibility of the Series title. When enabled, an array of settings becomes available, as shown, allowing users to fully adjust the appearance of the Series title.

Content

With this dropdown menu, users can choose the Series name as the displayed title, or specify a Custom title and include an additional data field, as shown below.

Text

The default text for the Label title is automatically derived from the name of the data field used. However, you have the option to customize this title to a different text or you may decide to apply conditional formatting. Keep in mind that this option is available for individual series and individual label.

Font

The font’s appearance is determined by three distinct controls:

  • Font family: Select from preset font families.
  • Font size: Font size can be adjusted within a range of 8 to 60 points.
  • Font style: With normal being the default, you can also choose bold, italic, or underlined.
Color

This setting allows you to customize the color by either selecting from the color palette or applying conditional formatting.

Transparency

The Transparency setting allows you to adjust the transparency level, ranging from 0% for full opacity to 100% for complete transparency, enabling you to achieve either a subtle or a more pronounced effect.

Value

Font

The font’s appearance is determined by three distinct controls:

  • Font family: Select from preset font families.
  • Font size: Font size can be adjusted within a range of 8 to 60 points.
  • Font style: With normal being the default, you can also choose bold, italic, or underlined.
Color

This setting allows you to customize the color by either selecting from the color palette or applying conditional formatting.

Transparency

The Transparency setting allows you to adjust the transparency level, ranging from 0% for full opacity to 100% for complete transparency, enabling you to achieve either a subtle or a more pronounced effect.

Display units

The menu offers several options for defining the Display units:

  • Auto: The unit adjusts dynamically based on the data value's magnitude.
  • None: Displays the value as is, without any unit.
  • Thousands: Divides the value by 1,000 and appends a "K" suffix.
  • Millions: Divides the value by 1,000,000 and appends an "M" suffix.
  • Billions: Divides the value by 1,000,000,000 and appends a "B" suffix.
  • Trillions: Divides the value by 1,000,000,000,000 and appends a "T" suffix.
  • Custom: Allows user to customize how data values are displayed in the visual. When the Custom option is selected, a Format code input field becomes as shown below.
Format code

The Format code setting, available only when selecting custom display units, allows you to customize the display format of values using custom format codes (based on Excel format codes) or apply conditional formatting. Format codes change how numbers, dates, and other data types are presented, such as formatting numbers as currency with $#,###M or dates as yyyy-MM-dd, ensuring your data is presented in a manner tailored to the specific needs of your visual.

Value decimal places

Allows you to specify the number of decimal places for values, with a selectable range from 0 to 15, or use conditional formatting.

Show blank as

This setting allows users to customize how blank or missing values are displayed in visualizations. When left blank, nothing is displayed however, users can specify custom text to represent blank values.

Detail

The Detail toggle, when enabled, provides users the option to add and format more data to include detailed information in the Reference label when desired. The individual availability of each setting is dependent on which options have been selected for both series and labels.

Data

Provides users the option to add an additional data field that will be displayed as detailed information.

Font

The font’s appearance is determined by three distinct controls:

  • Font family: Select from preset font families.
  • Font size: Font size can be adjusted within a range of 8 to 60 points.
  • Font style: With normal being the default, you can also choose bold, italic, or underlined.
Font color

This setting allows you to customize the color by either selecting from the color palette or applying conditional formatting.

Color

This setting allows you to customize the color by either selecting from the color palette or applying conditional formatting.

Transparency

The Transparency setting allows you to adjust the transparency level, ranging from 0% for full opacity to 100% for complete transparency, enabling you to achieve either a subtle or a more pronounced effect.

Display units

The menu offers several options for defining the Display units:

  • Auto: The unit adjusts dynamically based on the data value's magnitude.
  • None: Displays the value as is, without any unit.
  • Thousands: Divides the value by 1,000 and appends a "K" suffix.
  • Millions: Divides the value by 1,000,000 and appends an "M" suffix.
  • Billions: Divides the value by 1,000,000,000 and appends a "B" suffix.
  • Trillions: Divides the value by 1,000,000,000,000 and appends a "T" suffix.
  • Custom: Allows user to customize how data values are displayed in the visual. When the Custom option is selected, a Format code input field becomes as shown below.
Format code

The Format code setting, available only when selecting custom display units, allows you to customize the display format of values using custom format codes (based on Excel format codes) or apply conditional formatting. Format codes change how numbers, dates, and other data types are presented, such as formatting numbers as currency with $#,###M or dates as yyyy-MM-dd, ensuring your data is presented in a manner tailored to the specific needs of your visual.

Value decimal places

Allows you to specify the number of decimal places for values, with a selectable range from 0 to 15.

Show blank as

This setting allows users to customize how blank or missing values are displayed in visualizations. When left blank, nothing is displayed however, users can specify custom text to represent blank values.

Divider

The Divider toggle, when enabled, displays a customizable visual division between the Callout values and the Reference label, and also makes the Background toggle available for more customization options.

Color

This setting allows you to customize the color by either selecting from the color palette or applying conditional formatting.

Transparency

The Transparency setting allows you to adjust the transparency level, ranging from 0% for full opacity to 100% for complete transparency, enabling you to achieve either a subtle or a more pronounced effect.

Line style

The menu provides three selections to customize the line style pattern:

  • Solid: A continuous line without breaks.
  • Dashed: A line consisting of a series of short segments.
  • Dotted: A line made up of a sequence of dots.
Width

The Width setting allows you to define the thickness in pixels, offering a range from 0 (none) to 12 (widest).

Ignore padding

This toggle, when activated, ignores card padding to allow the Divider line to fill the entire span of the card.

Background

Color

This setting allows you to customize the color by either selecting from the color palette or applying conditional formatting.

Transparency

The Transparency setting allows you to adjust the transparency level, ranging from 0% for full opacity to 100% for complete transparency, enabling you to achieve either a subtle or a more pronounced effect.

Layout

Arrangement

Using this menu, you can select either Rows or Columns as the Reference label layout.

Style

Offering two style options, this setting allows you to choose either Tabular style or Sentence style.

Value area

In the Tabular style layout, you can adjust the data value display area from 0% to 100% to determine its proportion on the label.

Horizontal alignment

This setting controls the horizontal alignment, allowing you to choose between left, center, or right.

Vertical alignment

This setting controls the vertical alignment, allowing you to choose between top, middle, or bottom. It’s applicable for both Tabular and Sentence styles in Row layout, and also when using the Column layout arrangement.

Spacing

The Spacing menu provides options to adjust the layout and appearance of reference labels in a card visual. It allows you to customize the space between labels, divider line padding, and outer padding.

Space between labels

The setting allows you to define spacing of 0-20 pixels between labels for precise layout customization.

Customize outer padding

When enabled, this toggle allows you to customize the outer padding by specifying 0-20 pixels before, and after, the divider line.

Padding before divider line

This setting is accessible when the Customize outer padding toggle has been enabled, allowing for a padding range of 0-20 pixels before the divider line.

Padding after divider line

This setting is accessible when the Customize outer padding toggle has been enabled, allowing for a padding range of 0-20 pixels after the divider line.

Outer padding

The setting is accessible when the Customize outer padding toggle is off, allowing you specify 0-20 pixels for outer padding.

Images settings

Apply settings to

The Apply settings to feature enables you to configure formatting options globally across all series, or target them specifically. Certain formatting options are exclusive to the all series.

Series

The dropdown menu becomes available when a data field is specified in the legend or when multiple fields are present on the y-axis. This feature ensures that users can apply the necessary settings to either all series or individual ones.

Image

Image type

With this menu, you can choose to insert and image from your local files, or from an image URL, to accompany the data in your visual.

Browse…

This feature opens file explorer on your computer for you to browse and select an image file.

Image URL

Here you can specify an image URL, or use conditional formatting to insert an image.

Transparency

The Transparency setting allows you to adjust the transparency level, ranging from 0% for full opacity to 100% for complete transparency, enabling you to achieve either a subtle or a more pronounced effect.

Position

This menu provides four options to position the Image:

  • Left of text: Image is positioned to the left of text.
  • Right of text: Image is positioned to the right of text.
  • Below text: Image is positioned below text.
  • Above text: Image is positioned above text.
Vertical alignment

This setting controls the vertical alignment, allowing you to choose between top, middle, or bottom.

Space between image and callout

This setting adjusts the space between the image and the callout value from 0 to 30 pixels.

Fix size

This toggle, when enabled, makes the Size option available where yuo can specify the pixel size of the image.

Image area size

Define the image area size between 10% and 90% with this feature. When the Fix size toggle is enabled, this area size option changes to to a Size option where you can input the number of pixels instead.

Size

With the Fix size toggle enabled, here you can define image pixel size, with Auto as the default, or selecting from 1-999 pixels.

Alt text

You can enter a description that will be read by a screen reader upon selecting the visual.

Card settings

Apply settings to

The Apply settings to feature enables you to configure formatting options globally across all series, or target them specifically. Certain formatting options are exclusive to the all series.

Series

The dropdown menu becomes available when a data field is specified in the legend or when multiple fields are present on the y-axis. This feature ensures that users can apply the necessary settings to either all series or individual ones.

Shape

Shape

The Shape menu provides a selection of shape options allowing you to tailor the style of your visual:

  • Rectangle: The standard shape option, rendering a four-sided polygon with right-angled corners.
  • Rounded Rectangle: A variation of the rectangle, this shape features corners that are smoothly curved.
  • Snipped tab, both top: A unique design where the top two corners of the rectangle are diagonally cut off.
Rounded corners

When the Rounded rectangle shape is chosen, the Rounded corners control appears, enabling the customization of corner curvature from 0 pixels (square corners) to 50 pixels (fully rounded).

Size of top snips

When the Snipped tab, both top shape is selected, the Size of top snips control is activated, allowing you to clip the top corners from 0 pixels (square corners) to 50 pixels (maximum snip).

Size of top snips

When the Snipped tab, both top shape is selected, the Size of bottom snips control is activated, allowing you to clip the bottom corners from 0 pixels (square corners) to 50 pixels (maximum snip).

Customize style

This toggle, available exclusively for Rounded rectangle and Snipped tab, both top shapes, enables independent control of each corner's roundness or snip depth.

Top left corner

This setting is accessible only when the Customize style toggle is activated. It allows for the top left corner of the shape to be rounded or snipped, adjustable from 0 pixels (square corner) to 50 pixels (fully rounded or snipped).

Top right corner

This setting is accessible only when the Customize style toggle is activated. It allows for the top right corner of the shape to be rounded or snipped, adjustable from 0 pixels (square corner) to 50 pixels (fully rounded or snipped).

Bottom left corner

This setting is accessible only when the Customize style toggle is activated. It allows for the bottom left corner of the shape to be rounded or snipped, adjustable from 0 pixels (square corner) to 50 pixels (fully rounded or snipped).

Bottom right corner

This setting is accessible only when the Customize style toggle is activated. It allows for the bottom right corner of the shape to be rounded or snipped, adjustable from 0 pixels (square corner) to 50 pixels (fully rounded or snipped).

Padding

Size

The Size dropdown menu offers four padding presets:

  • Wide: Applies 20px padding uniformly around the shape.
  • Normal: Adds 12px padding to each side of the shape.
  • Narrow: Provides a slimmer 6px padding on all sides.
  • Custom: Enables personalized padding adjustments.
Padding

The Padding controls become available only when the Custom size option is selected, allowing for individual padding customization of each side of the shape.

Alignment

Vertical alignment

The menu provides a suite of vertical alignment options for callout values and image, allowing them to be aligned as a group at the top, middle, or bottom of the container.

Background

The Background toggle, when enabled, provides more options to customize the background of your cards.

Color

This setting allows you to customize the color by either selecting from the color palette or applying conditional formatting.

Transparency

The Transparency setting allows you to adjust the transparency level, ranging from 0% for full opacity to 100% for complete transparency, enabling you to achieve either a subtle or a more pronounced effect.

Background image

The Background image control lets you browse your device to add an image file that will be displayed in the background.

Image fit

The Image fit setting offers three options as shown in the dropdown menu:

  • Normal: This option maintains the original size of the image. If the image is larger than the available area, it will be cropped accordingly to fit the area.
  • Fit: This option scales down the image to fit within the available area while maintaining the original aspect ratio. While no part of the image is cropped, empty space may appear around the image if its aspect ratio differs from the area you’re fitting the image into.
  • Fill: This option stretches or compresses the image to completely fill the available area. The image’s aspect ratio might not be preserved, which can lead to distortion if the aspect ratio of the image is different from the area being filled.
Transparency

The Transparency setting allows you to adjust the transparency level, ranging from 0% for full opacity to 100% for complete transparency, enabling you to achieve either a subtle or a more pronounced effect.

Border

The Border toggle, when enabled, provides customization options to customize the borders and enhance the visual appeal of your cards.

Color

This setting allows you to customize the color by either selecting from the color palette or applying conditional formatting.

Width

The Width setting allows you to define the thickness in pixels, offering a range from 1 to 10 (widest).

Transparency

The Transparency setting allows you to adjust the transparency level, ranging from 0% for full opacity to 100% for complete transparency, enabling you to achieve either a subtle or a more pronounced effect.

Shadow

The Shadow toggle, when enabled, enhances the visual appeal of your cards by giving them a three-dimensional look and can help certain elements stand out in your report.

Color

This setting allows you to customize the color by either selecting from the color palette or applying conditional formatting.

Offset

The Offset dropdown allows you to choose either an inside offset creating the impression of depth, or being pressed, while an outside offset creates the impression of raised.

Position

The Position dropdown menu allows you to set the direction of the effect to align with an assumed light source or your design preference, offering these options:

  • Top
  • Top left
  • Top right
  • Center
  • Left
  • Right
  • Bottom
  • Bottom left
  • Bottom right
  • Custom: Defines size, blur, angle, distance and transparency.
Size

With this setting, you can customize the size of the shadow, offering a range of 0 to 10 pixels, to make it subtle or prominent.

Blur

Controls the sharpness of the edges, from a sharp outline to a soft haze.

Angle

Define the angle at which the effect appears, creating a sense of the time of day or a specific light source.

Distance

Set how far the shadow extends from the card, which can affect the perception of the card’s elevation.

Transparency

The Transparency setting allows you to adjust the transparency level, ranging from 0% for full opacity to 100% for complete transparency, enabling you to achieve either a subtle or a more pronounced effect.

Glow

The Glow toggle, when enabled, enhances the visual appeal of your cards by giving them a luminous soft light effect around the cards and can help certain elements stand out in your report.

Color

This setting allows you to customize the color by either selecting from the color palette or applying conditional formatting.

Offset

Adjusts the distance between the glow and the card to create the impression of depth.

Position

The Position dropdown menu allows you to set the direction of the effect to align with an assumed light source or your design preference, offering these options:

  • Top
  • Top left
  • Top right
  • Center
  • Left
  • Right
  • Bottom
  • Bottom left
  • Bottom right
  • Custom: Defines size, blur, angle, distance and transparency.
Size

With this setting, you can customize the size of the glow, offering a range of 0 to 10 pixels, to make it subtle or prominent.

Blur

Controls the sharpness of the edges, from a sharp outline to a soft haze.

Angle

Define the angle at which the effect appears, creating a sense of the time of day or a specific light source.

Distance

Set how far the shadow extends from the card, which can affect the perception of the card’s elevation.

Transparency

The Transparency setting allows you to adjust the transparency level, ranging from 0% for full opacity to 100% for complete transparency, enabling you to achieve either a subtle or a more pronounced effect.

Accent bar

The Accent bar toggle, when enabled, is a simple yet effective way to draw attention to key metrics on your cards and providing more visual cues to highlight important information, using these settings.

Position

This menu provides four options to position the Accent bar:

  • Left
  • Right
  • Bottom
  • Top
Color

This setting allows you to customize the color by either selecting from the color palette or applying conditional formatting.

Transparency

The Transparency setting allows you to adjust the transparency level, ranging from 0% for full opacity to 100% for complete transparency, enabling you to achieve either a subtle or a more pronounced effect.

Width

The Width setting allows you to define the thickness in pixels, offering a range from 1 to 10 (widest).

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