Enhancements for the new card visual

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Power BI Desktop updates for March 2025 Part five of a five-part series of blogs
These updates were announced in the dying hours of the last day of March, presumably as part of the Fabric Community conference in Las Vega. Changes for the March 2025 Power BI update You can now set different styles for visuals Improvements to table view Shading the region above/below reference lines Enhancements for the new card visual (this blog)

Power BI Desktop updates for March 2025

Part five of a five-part series of blogs

These updates were announced in the dying hours of the last day of March, presumably as part of the Fabric Community conference in Las Vega.

Changes for the March 2025 Power BI update
You can now set different styles for visuals
Improvements to table view
Shading the region above/below reference lines
Enhancements for the new card visual (this blog)

Posted by Andy Brown on 01 April 2025

In this blog

A reminder: enabling the new card
Enabling card categories
Configuring the card's small multiples
Configuring the header for each category (small multiple)

The new card visual can now show different values for different categories:

Example of a card showing total quantity by region

This card is showing the total sales for each region. The categories are showing in a single column, with the header on the right showing text rotated.

Our Power BI Desktop update blog normally doesn't show preview features, but we suspect that most people are now using the new card (and have been doing so for some time). And to quote Microsoft directly: "The new card visual is steadily progressing towards becoming the official card, which will replace both the current card and multi-row card."

A reminder: enabling the new card

To enable the new card you'll have to turn it on in preview:

To see this dialog box select File -> Options and settings -> Options.

You'll then be abele to click on the new card visual icon:

The new card visual.

Enabling card categories

To create what used to be called a multi-row card like the one shown above, drag a field onto a new card's Categories data section:

Here we are showing total sales by region.

Configuring the card's small multiples

You can now say how you want your category (in our case, the regions) to appear:

Here we're going for a single column of regions, with a maximum of 3 showing at a time before a user needs to scroll up or down to see more.

Configuring the header for each category (small multiple)

You can now spend a very long time fine-tuning how each category appears:

Here I've gone for the labels on the right, rotated so the text appears sideways on.

You would be mad not to upgrade to the new card visual, as it seems almost certain that the old card will be turned off soon (and the new cards are so much better and more customisable).

Parts of this blog
Changes for the March 2025 Power BI update You can now set different styles for visuals Improvements to table view Shading the region above/below reference lines Enhancements for the new card visual (this blog)