Enable personalized visuals in a report

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In a larger organization, it can be difficult to design a single report that meets everyone's needs, so one solution is using personalized visuals. These allow individual consumers to make minor design changes to best understand the data themselves.

Tip

This is a powerful feature for more advanced report consumers. Empower your users by sharing the Power BI Consumer Documentation for personalized visuals.

What can consumers change

Report consumers can make changes for the following items:

  • Visualization type
  • Swap measure or dimension
  • Add/remove legend
  • Compare multiple measures
  • Change aggregations

Consumers can create a personal bookmark to save their changes after personalizing a report, and even share changes with others. Best of all, they can always reset to default to restore the report view.

Enable personalized visuals

You can enable personalized visuals in Power BI Desktop or Power BI service.

  • In Power BI Desktop, go to File > Options and settings > Options > Current file > Report settings. Make sure Personalize visuals is turned on.
  • In Power BI service, go to Settings on the specific report, then toggle Personalize Visuals on, and Save.

By default, when you enable personalized visuals, it's enabled for all visuals in a report. You can modify each visual to allow personalization or not. You'll need to enable this setting for each report.

Tip

Use a Power BI Template (.PBIT) file to enable personalized visuals and add on top of your custom theme for faster report building in the future.

For more information and limitations, see the Power BI Documentation.