Thursday, June 21, 2018

How to control the radius of a Donut chart in Power BI?

Visual appeal is everything for anything. It is also called eye candy, loosely put. It is aesthetics that matters.

For Donut charts this makes a big change. Now you can control the inner radius.

This is a new feature of June 5, 2018 update for Power BI. You need to install this version first before you follow this post.

Get some fields' data into Power Bi by connecting to your datasource as in this post.

Drag and drop a Donut Control to your page as shown.



Donut_00

Place check marks for the data in Query1 as shown.



Donut_0

Click Format shown here:



Donut_1

The default is Inner Radius=60%


The next two figures shows for 28% and 88% inner radii.





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