The most important setting and probably most overlooked in Power BI...

Great video and vital information. thank you for your work!

Clear, yours videos are very very usefull. Hi Ruth

Thanks a lot for sharing :).

I just have one question:
I have seen a lot of the laptops are set to the resolution 1920x1080 (as you said), but the option "Scale" in the "Scale & Layout" settings is set to "125%".
Does this setting not affect power bi? Is it maybe because of this that 1600x900 is one of the common sizes?

Thanks for the video. One comment: On a screen with a resolution of 1920x1080 you don't have all that space available. For example, in power bi online you only have 1651x845 for the dashboard. The rest is for menus, toolbars and filters. So... maybe 1600x800 is ok for design.

Hola Ruth conoces alguna manera de deshabilitar los marcadores en powerbi Service?

Is there a global setting to this or you need to change this every time?

When I first started with PBI I didn't know this setting existed and I wondered why I couldn't fit anything on my report page. Some of the reports I created with my old company are still there, cramped pages struggling to fit visualisations on such a tiny canvas, so painful.

An then I discovered the page setting, oh boy, what a game changer. This topic should be #1 lesson in every PBI beginner video.

The sad thing is, when I see PBI reports that look cramped, the first thing I wonder about is "does that report creator know there's a canvas setting?" Sometimes I think there's a lot of people out there that don't even know about it.

I did a lot of testing at my last company and came up with a custom size of 1775x800. It gave me the most real estate while still displaying correctly on the most screens. My current company built everything with the standard size of 1280x720 😥

The visible part of the canvas (excluding toolbars and panels) is the reference, not the screen’s aspect ratio. Further, setting the pixel width and height to other than the screens pixel size will probably result in different levels of magnification (affecting text size). Right?

I Always use the Custom setting;
I Never change Width. I Always change the Length to everything be 1000-6000.
And I always change the View/Page view/Fit to width.
I started with this maybe 5 years ago. Now, I can't imaging doing it any other way.
What about performance ? Never been any problem (after 100+ reports, some 100Mrows, <1Gb)

This is valuable info !!, this is Key and sometimes users may take this for granted, this also gives you the best report design experience, Kudos !!!

Sometimes I need a bit more width than the default 1280 due to various slicers and visuals, but I want to keep the 16:9 ratio.

This ratio can be maintained by simple division. If I need the width of my canvas to be 1408, I simply divide 1408 by 1280 (1.1). Then, multiply the height by this number: 720 X 1.1 (792). This becomes my custom canvas size of 792 height and 1408 width. These H and W settings maintain the 16:9 ratio.

Of course, the same approach could be used to first determine the canvas height and apply the same division of the new canvas height by 720 and multiplying that result to determine the width to maintain 16:9 ratio.

Great video Ruth! I was just using an aspect ratio calculator today for designing my reports to remove the scroll bar on a matrix.

I always tell user, use zoom it if it's too small .😅

anyway, responsive design is always a pain.

Get video, but it is possible to add a scrollbar to your reports. After you upload it to pbi online, open the report, edit mode, click view in the top ribbon and set it to fit to with. if you have set you high before to larger than screen size a scrollbar will appear

Bra info! Har hittills kört standard 16:9 inställningarna men vi kör WQHD både på jobbet och hemma så det känns som ett bra val!

Thanks! Always a good tip from Curbal!

Nice video! Didn't think of it! More videos about these "methods" would be nice

Oh Ruth, what an interesting video. Way back months ago I was looking for some info regarding these settings. Great job, please keep us updated. 👏👍

I always struggle with this. I work in a large nonprofit health system with screen sizes that vary wildly. The standard unchanged setting is pretty useless in terms of what you can fit, but I struggle to pick a 'standard' for higher resolutions. Invariably I will work with a stake holder who wants to fit as much as possible for what they view, but then once they share it with others we start getting complaints because of all the varying screen size. Don't really know what the 'right' answer it, but thanks for vid!

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YOU. ARE. AWESOME. Always have been an important asset in my career. Thank you

Very important topic. I believe this is equally important like learning DAX. At the end of the day, the intended users should be able to consume the reports without hassle. Also, I second with you point to set the aspect ratio at the very beginning which will definitely save a lot of effort later on.

Thank you @Ruth for creating & sharing this with us. 😊👍❤

Thanks, really useful video. We've been having a problem where some users in power bi service get scroll bars on matrix viduals where there's not much space for columns. I'm assuming that'll be caused by this, so maybe we can fix it by playing with the aspect ratio or asking the end user who has the issue to change their resolution

Great Video, Thanks!! Very useful.👌
What are your thoughts on large scroll down screen size?
Have you ever implemented something like this ? 🤔

Love the content!!! Fantastic job (as always). Watching EVERY video.

So what size is the ideal ratio to fit in the PBI app window? This has been driving us mad for a few years! 16:9 gives horrible white space columns in the app! Thx

This is where loading specific arrangements of objects based on the destination device comes in handy. This can be done in CSS but means being able to move/resize visual/fonts based on resolutions. I did this in Design Studio (business objects) long ago.. a pain to build out and test, but you can 'change' the report as needed during load on the device. Likewise orientation on phones/tablets/rotatable monitors.

Well, this is eye opening. Maybe could be used with RLS to have resolutions match user screens.

8 size limit to font is really a problem. I'd like to see 7 as option. Possible to overcome with setting it in style json file, if you are adventurous. One more aspect to consider though. People seldom look at report full screen without toolbars, taskbars, or sidebars, as in Power BI report or app in broweser or in desktop app. Some space is to be left for those as well. This is likely a reason the default is with 16:9 with 720p.

What laptop are you using?

This is good information but it makes my head hurt.

What are your options on setting these up as 2k or 4K? We tend to show these on large screen and I think this help the design because we can fit more values on the page and use larger fonts. Their Old school excel charts are usually cluttered but they are use to seeing more bars in bar charts

I agree! Screen size is crucial! Thank you very much, Ruth!

Thanks for such a wonderful video . I appreciate your efforts and your knowledge

thank you very much for this, just what I was looking for. appreciate it!

Will be handy in future