Choose your organisational custom visuals

There are currently 147 custom Power BI Desktop visuals listed on the Microsoft website, with a few more being added each month.  You can now select a few of them to be ones that you want to prioritise within your organisation.

Choosing your custom visuals

The first thing to do is to choose the custom visuals which you want to use to represent your corporate data.  I've gone for two:

I've downloaded these two files from the website linked to above:

The two files that I want to make easily accessible to other owls.

Logging on to your admin account

We have a number of Office 365 subscriptions, so I've logged on to Power BI Service using one of these.  I can then get at the admin portal:

Click on the gear icon at the top right of Power BI Service to get this dropdown menu.

Adding organisational visuals

I can now choose to view my organisation's visuals:

Choose this option to see the visuals to be used within your organisation.

You can click to add visuals:

Click to add each custom visual.

Here's an example:

I've given the visual a new name, description and icon.

Using a custom visual

You can choose to add a custom visual in Power BI Desktop as normal:

The icon and option to add a custom visual.

You can then click on the MY ORGANIZATION tab to see the custom visuals recommended for use within your company:

Click on this tab to see the two visuals you're recommending.

A neat way to promote the use of only certain visuals within your company!