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Custom Displaly Unit for Card and Gauge Visual

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Taher Assaid on 18 Mar 2020 18:53:48

Ability to change the display unit of the data label to a custom value instead of the default options (None, Thousands, Millions, Billions, Trillions)

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Chee Kit Lee on 22 Jun 2023 07:32:33

RE: Custom Displaly Unit for Card and Gauge Visual

How many votes do we need for this? Its a very important feature to make refined dashboards.The alternative is to manually format all of my measures to text which is a massive pain.

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miho horie on 08 Nov 2022 08:42:31

RE: Custom Displaly Unit for Card and Gauge Visual

It seems that unit of charts suddenly became linked to the language setting of PBI service. It's really frustrated not being able to customize the unit display.

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Lutz Bendlin on 20 Jun 2022 13:08:39

RE: Custom Displaly Unit for Card and Gauge Visual

I want to be able to show GigaBytes (GB) instead of Billion (bn)

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Kimball Brown on 23 May 2022 15:24:12

RE: Custom Displaly Unit for Card and Gauge Visual

This seems like a relatively simple fix, and many people would benefit from it. My customers are also confused and get a bad taste in their mouth about Power BI when they see this kind of limitation.

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Aden Letcher on 06 Apr 2022 07:27:11

RE: Custom Displaly Unit for Card and Gauge Visual

This is a frustrating limitation.

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Sven Sammelius on 15 Jan 2022 04:31:09

RE: Custom Displaly Unit for Card and Gauge Visual

Scales like kilo, Mega, and Giga (k, M, G resp.) are common too, and so being able to set the appropriate abbreviation in charts and cards is really useful to have those values scale logically.

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Katie Wearne on 29 Jun 2021 20:00:26

RE: Custom Displaly Unit for Card and Gauge Visual

My client uses this format:
1,000 = 1M
1,000,000 = 1MM

It would clarify things to be able to customize this.

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Friedrich Schroedter on 17 May 2021 17:38:33

RE: Custom Displaly Unit for Card and Gauge Visual

Related to a similar request:
"Auto display units should detect and display percentage"
https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=704ae943-d5d5-40c7-8259-0a46841a251f

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Ronald Hensbergen on 11 Sep 2020 07:50:55

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Where I live, The Netherlands, we're used that 1.000.000.000 is 'miljard' and 1.000.000.000.000 is a 'biljoen'. So the abbreviation bn is just plain confusing for us. K, mln., mld. and bln. are used over here as abbreviations.

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Lauren Dittmann on 13 Jul 2020 19:34:27

RE: Custom Displaly Unit for Card and Gauge Visual

To clarify - Currently, I have a report which displays values both in the millions and in the billions, and the Display Units are set to auto on both cards and a bar chart. However, the unit abbreviations displayed are :
bn = billions

M = millions

The client would prefer to see a 'B' used to represent billions

We would like a way to customize these display units.