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Add Legend for Diverging Colors In Filled Maps

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Patrick on 31 Mar 2017 23:28:43

When using diverging colors in a filled map, it would be useful to be able to display a gradient scale along with the map that would show the upper, median, and lower values that the diverging colors represent.

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Tyler Abbott on 01 Sep 2021 22:28:40

RE: Add Legend for Diverging Colors In Filled Maps

Agree with this completely. For all the great features in Power BI, I'm not sure how this isn't available yet...seems pretty basic to me.

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Christopher Havill on 10 Jul 2020 17:20:47

RE: Add Legend for Diverging Colors In Filled Maps

This is easy to do in Tableau, hasn't it been implemented yet? It would certainly be useful for Maps and Treemaps.

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David Williams on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:49

RE: Add Legend for Diverging Colors In Filled Maps

Completely agree. As a work around I'm creating a separate gradient in another application, saving it as a picture, importing it and sizing it and adding text by it to indicate the values. Kind of a ridiculous process. It's also not dynamic, so if other associated recommend a color tweak I go through the whole process again. Currently I'm working on a report that has about 15 different pages that utilize Filled maps, which further compounds this process. Please add in this feature.

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Cathleen F. Crowley on 05 Jul 2020 23:38:48

RE: Add Legend for Diverging Colors In Filled Maps

A legend should be automatically generated when adding color to a chart!

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Lucas Monahan on 05 Jul 2020 23:25:06

RE: Add Legend for Diverging Colors In Filled Maps

I couldn't agree more!

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Jake on 05 Jul 2020 22:53:10

RE: Add Legend for Diverging Colors In Filled Maps

I like this idea. I can't believe at a basic level you cannot have a legend displaying the diverging colour scale on a visual, and the associated smallest and largest numbers associated with that scale.