General Formatting

There are multiple options in general formatting. For maps, we have options like Title, tooltip, effects, alt text, etc. We will look at each of the options in detail.

Property

The property option is generally present in every visualization. It contains three options, Size, position, and Advance options. We, generally do not use these properties, because all are easily accessible with mouse clicks. The size property helps to resize the visualization created. The position property changes the position of the visualization, in the report. The Advance option comprises adding a layer order, which is rarely used.

Title

The title formatting is present in every visualization. As the name suggests, it adds a heading to the visualization. Click on the slider to enable the title.

The following are the steps:

Step 1: Click on the Title option. A drop-down list appears. Add the title, under the Text section. For example, the Sum of Salary by Employee name and Joining Bonus. We can view in the image a title is added to the map. As done previously we can customize the size, font type of the title, etc.

Step 2: We can also change the color of the title. Under the text color, select the required color. For example, yellow in this case. The title color changes to yellow.

Effects

The effects section comprises three features i.e. Background, Visual Border, and Shadow. All works according to their names. The background adds a background color to the visualization, the Visual border adds a border around the visualization, and the shadow option creates a shadow on the outskirts of the visualization.

The following are the steps:

Step 1: Click on the Background option. Select the color of the background accordingly. For example, Black. We can view in the below image that the background of the map changed to black.

Header Icons

Header icons are the options, present on the top of the visualization. For the map, there are two options, filter on visuals and more options. Click on the header-icons option, we will get various options, like Background, Border, and Icons. One can set its colors as per choice.

Tooltips

Consider a situation, where we want to display the fields added by hovering over the map, then this task can be achieved by the Tooltips option. Tooltips have three properties i.e. Options, Text, and Background. Click on the tooltips option. Now, for example, we hover over Arushi’s data point, then Employee name as Arushi, Joining Bonus as 30000, and Sum of Salary 50000. We can set text and background color according to our needs.

Alt Text

Alt text is a property present in each visualization. People generally misinterpret, alt text by its name, they think that alt text will be displayed when they hover over the visualization. Alt text is for the persons, who cannot see the visuals, images, etc. This option is only available if you are using a narrator in your system. When your narrator is active, then this alt text will be spoken by the system. Click on the Alt text, and type the required text. 

Tree Maps are the visualizations that display dataset values in the form of a hierarchical rectangle-cut format. We prefer Tree Map whenever we want to show large hierarchical data, in a limited space, with a better color combination, we have treemap as our first choice, also when we have a correlation between color and size easy to adopt. We have various options to format tree maps. We can add legends, data labels, etc. In this article, we will learn how to format a tree map in Power BI and explore its various options.