Nebula for Power BI
THE MUST-HAVE CUSTOM VISUAL FOR CREATING STUNNING POWER BI REPORTS
Welcome to Nebula!
Our custom Power BI visual lets you effortlessly create stunning background designs right within Power BI. No more juggling external design tools or dealing with cluttered reports. Just follow these easy steps to start using Nebula and take your Power BI reports to the next level.
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Why you need Nebula
Revolutionized Design in Power BI
Simplify your Power BI report design with our intuitive visual, eliminating clutter and reducing the need for multiple elements.
Goodbye External Tools
Avoid the hassle of external tools by designing appealing reports directly within Power BI, ensuring seamless visual alignment.
Faster Reports. Better Looks
Enhance your reports' visual appeal without compromising on performance, ensuring quick load times and smooth interactions.
See some of the background designs created with Nebula
key features
Faster than Native Power BI Shapes
Create complex designs quickly without performance issues.
Reduces Clutter
Keep your report clean and focused by integrating designs directly into the visual.
Eliminates External Tools
No need to switch between Power BI and other design tools, everything you need is within Power BI.
Try out our Sample report
See how you can improve your report's design with some sleek and professional backgrounds. This improves readability and you can easily highlight certain visuals.
QUICK START GUIDE
step-by-step instructions
1. Adding the visual
- Open your Power BI report.
- Go to the Visualizations pane.
- Click on the ellipsis (`...`) and select Import from file.
- Locate the Nebula visual file on your computer and import it.
- Once Nebula is added to the page, expand it to fit the page.
2. configuring the visual
Adding a Column or Measure:
- Drag any measure or field into the Measure Data field of the Nebula visual.
Set Some General Settings for Nebula
- In the General settings of the Format pane, find the Background option in the Effects section and turn it off
- In the General settings of the Format pane, find the Padding option in the Properties section. Set padding to 0px everywhere.
- In the General settings of the Format pane, find the Advanced Options in the Properties section. Turn on the Maintain Layer Order option.
- In the General settings of the Format pane, find the Header Icons section and turn it off.
Currently, we don't have any control over these General settings but we are in touch with Microsoft and hope that we can changed these settings for you in the future.
3. Adding new shapes
- Click on the button in the
lower right corner of the visual. - Choose the shape you want to add.
4. set default settings
- In the Visualization pane, configure the default settings for individual shapes.
This will automatically apply to any new elements of that specific shape you add to the page.
5. customize specific elements
- Add as many elements to the visual as you want, resize them easily with drag and drop, and change their settings.
- Right-click on any element to change its settings individually.
- Adjust properties like color, border, transparency, shape, etc.
6. adjusting transparency
- For easier alignment with other elements on your report, you can make the Nebula visual slightly transparent.
- Click on the
button in the lower right corner.
7. send nebula to the back
- Open the Selection Pane.
- Move the Nebula visual to the very bottom of the list to make sure it doesn’t overlap any of the other visuals on the page
develop the visual with us!
We're just getting started with Nebula and have a backlog full of exciting new features. If there's something specific you'd love to see, please reach out to us at nebula@bisamurai.com – we might be able to prioritize it for you.
TIPS AND TRICKS
- We recommend you hide the Nebula visual in the Selection Pane when you are working on other visuals, to move them around freely and without clutter.
- When creating pages with a similar design, copy the Nebula visual from one page to the other, to retain the design you already created. This way, you will just need to make some adjustments instead of building the design again from scratch .
Need a security guarantee?
We are well aware that most companies can only use Microsoft certified custom visuals. When developing Nebula, we follow all rules from Microsoft so we will be able to have it certified. At the moment, it is too early to publish the visual to AppSource but this will follow, including the certification.
