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Frontend Visualization

Features Supported

Charts

  • The chart names from Tableau is shown in “show me” pane.
  • If a chart is unsupported it will be converted as table .
  • Custom visuals will be used if the chart is defaultly unavailable in Power BI. These are visuals from Power BI Market place.
Charts Tableau Power BI
BAR Horizontal Bar barChart
Stacked Bar columnChart
Side by side Bar clusteredColumnChar
AREA Area Chart Area Chart
Stacked Area Area Chart
LINE Line Chart - Continuous Line Chart
Line Chart - Discrete PBILineChartByAkvelon555E1FCA110843C7A6E66458BA0A3FAD[Custom Visual]
Dual Line Line Chart
PIE Pie Pie Chart
MAP symbol map map
DUAL COMBINATION Dual combination lineClusteredColumnComboChart
TABULARVISUALS Text Table table Ex
Highlighted Tables pivotable
CARD text card
CUSTOM CHARTS Packed Bubble bubbleChartEEDCDFA388784AEEAB47972BC1626196
boxplot BoxandWhiskerByMAQ1823AD39DT234AB532063E128AX
Heat Map TableHeatMap1443716069308

Chart Properties

  • Titles on charts
  • X-axis and Y-axis Titles will be renamed .
  • Text Properties like font style, size and color.
  • Background color
  • Grid lines.
  • Borders for charts.
  • Alias name for values.
  • Legends will be enabled only if present .
  • COLOR OF CHART:
    • If color is applied it will be added else default color is applied to Power BI.
    • If a chart contains multiple color representing its data and if palate is assigned it will be applied to Power BI.

Dashboard Objects

  • TEXT BOX: The text box along with its properties [font style, size and color]
  • BACKGROUND COLOR: Background color of the page.

  • IMAGES: Images can be displayed if it is located in current system.

  • OTHER FEATURES:

    • ACTIONS:

      • Only on-select is supported.
      • With Actions from one dashboard to different dashboard power bi interacts with all charts in target dashboard.

    • PARAMETERS:

      • Numeric type Parameters:

        • In Allowable options , range and list is supported since specifying range in Power BI is mandatory.

      • Other type Parameters:

        • Other types will be shown as a slicer chart with interactivity among all charts in power bi.

      • TABLE RECORDS COUNT:

        • For each table a record count is calculated as a measure expression in power bi.

Features Unsupported

Below are constraints mostly rising from the limitation of the tool, that need to be considered during the process:

  1. Scaling
  2. The Y axis scaling cannot be altered (This is a limitation of Power BI)
  3. Color
  4. If palette is not assigned default color in power BI will be applied (This is a limitation of Power BI)
  5. Sorting
  6. Columns having derivations from date columns (e.g., month name) will be considered as text columns in Power BI. They will be sorted in the alphabetical order and not month-wise (This is a limitation of Power BI)
  7. Filters
  8. Applying filters for a Text Column in Power BI requires all the values to be filtered out, whereas Tableau provides only the start and end value in the metadata
  9. Actions
  10. ‘Run’ action on hover and menu
  11. ‘With’ action for specific chart interactions
  12. Parameters
  13. Numeric type parameters: Selected parameters where specifying range is mandatory in Power BI
  14. Other type parameters:
    • Only numeric type parameters are supported in Power BI
    • When a string or date parameter is included, the Slicer chart generated does not support the expression