Integrating Card Visualizations

Card and Multi-row Card visualizations are often positioned in the top and left sections of report pages, given the importance of individual measures and small sets of measures. Although less graphically powerful and interactive than other visuals, cards are also the most common tiles pinned to Power BI dashboards and are also used frequently in phone layouts for mobile consumption. A common practice in report design is to start with a few high-level measures represented as card or KPI visuals and build additional chart and table visuals around these.

This recipe demonstrates how to use Card, Multi-row card, KPI, and Gauge visualizations—as well as text boxes.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, follow these steps:

1. Open the Filtering at Different Scopes.pbix file and save it as Integrating Card Visualizations.pbix.
2. Switch to the Scratch page, and use Ctrl + A then Delete to remove any visuals.
3. Check the...