Formatting
Once at least an actual value has been assigned to the visual, the formatting pane will be visible.
There are three main formatting areas:
Settings - most of the visuals formatting options
Row settings - formatting related to specific row data elements
Column settings - formatting related to specific column data elements
Row settings and column settings allow the formatting of specific data rows or columns. They are not visible if there are no row or column fields assigned to the visual (cf. data)
Settings
General - general formatting
Tiles - card related settings
Row header - row header formatting
Column header - column header formatting
Indicator - indicator settings
Minichart - minichart formatting
Conditional background - settings related to the conditional coloration of the card background
The "Row header", "Column header", "Indicator" and "Minichart" areas will not visible before an according data mapping has been made. E.g. you see the "Row header" category only if there is a field assigned to the row data mapping of the visual, and "Indicator" only if there is a field assigned to the target value data mapping (cf. data).
General
Tile shape - choose between rectangular and square shape
Tile margin - space between the cards (pixels)
Tile padding - card padding, i.e. distance between content and edge (percent)
Tile minimum width and minimum height - minimum size of the cards. Cards are automatically sized to fill the whole area of the visual, but will not be smaller than the here defined minimum size (pixels)
Tile border width - stroke width of the card borders (pixels)
Tile rounded corners - rounded corners extent (pixels)
Automatic text size - automatically size the card texts (actual, target, row and column header texts) or not. Turning the automatic sizing on will display a slider where users can set the relative size of the texts in relation to the card size on a scale from 1 to 100
Tiles
Tile color - background color of the cards
Tile border color - border color of the cards
Decimal places - default number decimal places for actual and target values
Display unit - defautl display unit for actual and target values
Actuals font - text settings for the actual measure
Target font - text settings for the target measure and its title
Row header
When using images as row header, the font formatting section is not visible. Otherwise the panel contains the following:
Tile color - color of row header tiles
Tile border color - border color of header tiles
Font - font settings for the header texts
Custom width - by default, header tiles will have the same size as the KPI cards. Turning "Custom width" on will let users define a custom row header width.
Column header
Tile color - color of column header tiles
Tile border color - border color of header tiles
Font - font settings for the header texts
Custom height - by default, header tiles will have the same size as the KPI cards. Turning "Custom height" on will let users define a custom column header height.
Indicator
Style - you can choose from three options: arrow, text color, no indicator
Targe style - display delta or target value under the actual value
Delta text - text to be displayed before the delta value (if target style = delta)
Target text - text to be displayed before the target value (if target style = target)
Positive color, neutral color, negative color - colors to be used for the indicator
Neutral percentage - percentage to be considered neutral
Reverse indicator - give values below target a positive indication and values above target a negative indication (e.g. when displaying costs)
Minichart
There are two minichart types to choose from: Line and Indicator area. The area chart has no further options. For the line chart an actual and a target line color can be defined.
Minichart type - line chart or indicator area, i.e. area chart with IBCS like indication of actual vs. target
Actual line color - color of the actual line
Target line color - color of the target line