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The new button slicer visual in Power BI Desktop Part three of a three-part series of blogs
Microsoft have introduced a new button slicer visual in the November 2023 Power BI Desktop update, which adds additional functionality and formatting features to the old tile slicer. The new button slicer visual in Power BI Desktop Formatting the new button slicer Adding images and text to the new button slicer (this blog)

The new button slicer visual in Power BI Desktop

Part three of a three-part series of blogs

Microsoft have introduced a new button slicer visual in the November 2023 Power BI Desktop update, which adds additional functionality and formatting features to the old tile slicer.

The new button slicer visual in Power BI Desktop
Formatting the new button slicer
Adding images and text to the new button slicer (this blog)

Posted by Rick Gould on 01 December 2023

In this blog

Adding images
Adding text

Adding images and text

The new button slicer can now hold images and text in each button:

Power BI Desktop new button slicer images and text

This button contains an image URL and a text value stored in the data model.

Adding images

If you have the URL to an image stored in your data model, it is easy to add that image to your buttons.

Select the column containing the URL and assign the correct Data category to it:

Power BI Desktop setting a data category

The data category Image URL will allow Power BI to retrieve the image for your visual.

Add that field into the button slicer visual:

Power BI Desktop images in the button slicer

This will display the images in the button.

Adding text

If the text is contained in your data model, you can add it in the formatting options:

Power BI Desktop button slicer calculated column text

This data model contains a calculated column which assigns the correct descriptions to each image.

To add the text to the new button slicer - expand the Callout values property and turn on the Label property:

Power BI Desktop button slicer callout values

This will add labels to the default state of the buttons.

Expand the Label property and add your text field:

Power BI Desktop button slicer label field

This will display the appropriate text below the image on the button.

You can apply the usual array of formatting options to your label including conditional formatting:

Power BI Desktop button slicer label conditional formatting

Bold formatting has been switched on for the text.

Your slicer buttons will now display both images and text - something that isn't available with the old tile slicer:

Power BI Desktop completed button slicer

The colour of the rating background has been applied to the text using conditional formatting on a field value.

Our verdict? This is indeed an improvement on the old tile slicer visual with a much wider array of formatting options that are in keeping with the previously released new card visual.