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Use Organizational Themes (Preview) to manage your License in Nova Silva visuals

Use Organizational Themes to manage your License in Nova Silva visuals

Administrators can now use the Power BI Admin Portal to add and manage themes that are available to all users within the organization!

With the latest enhancements in Power BI Organizational themes (preview), administrators and creators can easily manage and apply themes. Use Organizational themes to automate the license activation of your Nova Silva visuals by simply adding the license details directly into a organizational theme file. This means there’s no longer a need for each report creator to manually insert license details across multiple reports.

Considerations

Organizational Themes is a Preview feature and is available only to admins.
Making an organizational theme available does not update existing reports automatically.
Theme gallery is available in both Power BI Desktop and the Service.

How do you set up an Organizational Theme?

Pre-requisites: Create a custom theme by going to View > Themes > Customize current theme, and Save current theme in Power BI Desktop. Locate and open the custom JSON file and add the Nova Silva license details in the visualStyles section and Save the file.

Add the following example to your Organizational theme file and replace the text between quotes with your own license information. License Name and License Key are provided to you directly via email. Be sure to copy them exactly as received.

"visualStyles": {
       "*": {
          "*": {
             "license": [{
                 "licenseName": "YOUR LICENSE NAME",
                 "licenseKey": "YOUR LICENSE KEY"
            }]
        }
    } 
}
  1. As an Administrator, go to the Power BI Admin Portal and click on Organizational themes (preview).
  2. Click the + Add theme button, in the Theme Settings pane upload the customized .JSON file (including your License in the visualStyles section).
  3. After adding the file, click Enable for theme gallery. This will make the organizational theme(s) available to Creators.
  4. As a Creator, go to View > Theme menu in Power BI Desktop, select the dropdown arrow and then select the theme you want under Organizational themes.
  5. Save and publish the report to the Power BI Service or
  6. In Power BI Service, go to Edit > View > Theme and select the Organizational theme.

The Nova Silva license information will then be applied consistently across all reports using that Organizational theme.

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PowerGantt Chart for Power BI – Power BI May 2025 Update

PowerGantt Chart for Power BI – May 2025 Update

We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature in our latest PowerGantt release: Custom milestone markers!

With this update, you can now add any icon to your PowerGantt visual to represent milestones—bringing even more clarity and customization to your project timelines. Whether you’re highlighting key deliverables, risks, or approval points, custom icons make it easier to tell your story briefly.

But that’s not all—these icons support conditional formatting, enabling dynamic styling based on status, category, or any field in your data. For example, you can automatically display a red warning icon for delayed tasks or a green checkmark for completed milestones.

Custom icons give you the flexibility to match your visual to your organization’s language and branding, making project tracking more intuitive and visually engaging than ever before.

Update your PowerGantt Chart today and make your project milestones stand out with style!

Try the PowerGantt Chart for FREE now on your own project data by downloading it from the AppSource.

Questions or remarks? Visit us at: https://visuals.novasilva.com/.

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PowerGantt Chart for Power BI – Update

We are excited to receive ongoing feedback from you and want to express our gratitude for your valuable contributions. Your insights help us make significant enhancements to our visuals.

In the latest releases of the PowerGantt Chart, we have added many new features based on your feedback. These include the ability to show incomplete tasks and display progress as a separate column. We’ve also included links in the additional columns and enhanced their formatting options. You can now change the milestone shapes and wrap text in columns for better readability.

Additionally, we’ve added the option to preset the zoom slider, expand and collapse all hierarchy elements, and add milestone labels. To further improve your experience, we’ve enabled the display and formatting of vertical grid lines. These updates are designed to provide you with more flexibility and control over your project visuals.

We appreciate your continued support and look forward to receiving more of your valuable feedback. Together, we can keep enhancing PowerGantt Chart to meet your needs.

Try the PowerGantt Chart for FREE now on your own project data by downloading it from the AppSource.

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Attribute Control Chart for Power BI

Maintaining quality standards is a non-negotiable aspect of every successful operation. Enter the new Attribute Control Chart for Power BI, a robust mechanism for monitoring and controlling categorical data variations.

The Attribute Control Chart offers a comprehensive suite of six attribute charts to cater to diverse analytical needs:

  • c chart: Monitors number of defects per sample (sample size is constant).
  • u chart: Tracks the number of defects per unit (sample size varies).
  • Laney u’ chart: A modified version of the u chart to adjust for overdispersion or underdispersion in your data.
  • p chart: Observes the proportion of defective items per sample (sample size varies).
  • Laney p’ chart: A modified version of the p chart to adjust for overdispersion or underdispersion in your data.
  • np chart: Displays the count of defective items per sample (sample size is constant).

Power BI users can delve deeper into their data, facilitating timely decision-making and continuous improvement. From manufacturing to healthcare, the Attribute Control Chart equips organizations across industries with the insights needed to uphold quality standards and drive operational excellence.

Ready to experience the Attribute Control Chart? Download it from AppSource today and explore its capabilities with your own data – try for free!

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Milestone Trend Analysis Chart for Power BI – Update

Exciting news! Thanks to your valuable feedback, we’ve enhanced our Milestone Trend Analysis Chart even further. We’re thrilled to announce that you can now switch between horizontal and vertical orientations, catering to your preferred visualization style.

The Milestone Trend Analysis (MTA) Chart remains your go-to tool for swiftly identifying deadline trends, empowering you to take timely corrective actions. With this update, we aim to enhance deadline awareness among project participants and stakeholders alike.

In our latest version, seamlessly navigate between horizontal and vertical views within the familiar Power BI interface. No need to adapt to a new user interface – enjoy the same ease of use with added flexibility. Plus, benefit from supported features like themes, interactive selection, and tooltips.

What’s more, ours is the only Microsoft Certified Milestone Trend Analysis Chart for Power BI, ensuring reliability and compatibility with the platform.

Ready to experience the enhanced Milestone Trend Analysis Chart? Download it from AppSource today and explore its capabilities with your own data – try for free!

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Dumbbell Bar Chart for Power BI – AE Timeline Plot

Your valuable feedback continues to shape our Power BI visuals, and we’re thrilled to announce exciting enhancements to the Dumbbell Bar Chart. In the latest release, we’ve introduced the capability to display multiple dumbbell bars on a single row, allowing for the presentation of more than two values in a streamlined manner. This update opens up new possibilities, including the creation of the Adverse Event Timeline plot, or AE Timeline.

The AE Timeline serves as a graphical representation of the timing of adverse events in clinical trials or studies. Its primary objective is to visually convey when adverse events occurred concerning the timing of treatment or exposure. Widely used in medical research, especially during safety data analysis in drug development, the AE Timeline is now seamlessly available within Power BI.

Experience the enhanced Dumbbell Bar Chart and the innovative AE Timeline by downloading it from AppSource. All features are readily accessible within Power BI Desktop, empowering you to evaluate this visual on your own data. Dive into the enhanced functionality and discover new insights effortlessly.

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Control Chart XmR for Power BI – Update

Years ago, Stacey Barr introduced us to the magic of Control Charts. Magic it is, because it allows everyone to split their temporal data in two: random noise and real signals. And we all are looking for real signals, and don’t want to be distracted by random noise.

In our last release of the Control Chart XmR we have added several new features to make it even easier to find real signals and ignore random noise in your data.

First, we added a feature to allow any report consumer to override the applied rules. This allows everyone to analyze the effects of one specific rule or set of rules.

Several customers asked for a possibility to download the calculated values from the visual. Now you can download all values calculated by the Control Chart XmR, like: LCL, CL, UCL, sigma’s and signals.

Don’t hesitate and try the new Control Chart XmR now on your own data by downloading it from the AppSource. All features are available for free to evaluate this visual within Power BI Desktop.

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PowerGantt Chart for Power BI – Update

We are delighted to receive ongoing feedback from you, and we want to express our gratitude for your valuable contributions. Your insights help us to make significant enhancements to our visuals.

In the last version of the PowerGantt Chart, we have added a new feature that allows you to include a baseline planning. You can view the baseline planning as a thinner bar located beneath the main task bar. In the image below, the purple bar represents the baseline planning.

Besides supporting parent-child hierarchies, the PowerGantt Chart now allows you to group tasks by any categorical variable.

As part of our commitment to support the standard Power BI user interface, we have added a number of exciting new Power BI features to all our visuals: On-object interaction, subtitle and divider.

We are confident these enhancements will improve your experience with the PowerGantt Chart and enable you to achieve your goals more efficiently. Thank you for your continued support, and we look forward to bringing you more exciting updates in the future.

Try the PowerGantt Chart for FREE now on your own project data by downloading it from the AppSource.

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Strip Plot for Power BI

Most charts will force you to summarize or categorize data before it is displayed. This can hide important details and may be misleading. The Strip Plot shows all your data observations in one go without hiding important details. It shows each data point on a single continuous scale.

Your excellent feedback allows us to continuously improve our visuals. Based on your feedback we just released version 2.3 with several exciting enhancements.

The color formatting of all visible objects can be managed now. This allows you to use the Strip Plot in dark mode, or any other preferred color scheme.

We also applied several changes to significantly improve the loading performance of the Strip Plot. You can now show up to 30,000 markers in a single visual.

And all our visuals continue to support the standard Power BI interface. We incorporate the same user experience as Microsoft in the default visuals. You can use the Strip Plot (and all our other visuals) with the latest features: On-object interaction, Subtitle, Divider, etc.

Don’t hesitate and try the Strip Plot now on your own data by downloading it from the AppSource.

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Milestone Trend Analysis Chart for Power BI – Update

Based on your excellent feedback we have been able to further improve the Milestone Trend Analysis Chart.

Milestone Trend Analysis (MTA) is a simple method of early identifying deadline trends. It allows you to react in time with corrective actions. And it will raise the deadline awareness of all project participants and stakeholders.

Key updates in the Milestone Trend Analysis Chart are:

  • Zoom slider support to allow for easy navigation through time
  • Support for different marker icons
  • Direct labeling: allow the user to use series labels to replace the legend
  • Tooltip will include details of all overlapping markers
  • AppSource eCommerce transactability: purchase and manage your licenses like any Microsoft license
  • Dark mode support: all elements can be formatted to support a dark background

The Milestone Trend Analysis Chart makes use of the familiar standard Power BI user interface. No need to learn a new interface. Themes, interactive selection and tooltips are supported.

Don’t hesitate and try the Milestone Trend Analysis Chart now on your own data by downloading it from the AppSource. All features are available for free to evaluate this visual within Power BI Desktop.