General

The general tab includes a couple of settings that can be used to customize the view.

Color settings

Change colors of the canvas, the card background (if no steering color is active on cards), fonts and icons and easily switch back to default.

Tipp: when setting a color for the canvas, also set the same shading color for the Tableau worksheet you are working in through the Tableau Workbook top menu: Format > Shading...

Number of Columns (Grid Layout)

Define the number of columns to be displayed in a grid view. By default, KPI cards are arranged into four colours and as many rows as necessary. Reduce the number of columns when creating views for mobile.

Sort Logic

Data is sorted by default in the extension, following the default sort-by setting.

In cases you want to display KPI cards in a very specific sorting (or manual sorting), you can select the Tableau Sorting logic, and define the sort-by in the dimension(s) on the marks cards.

View Alignment

In PowerKPIs the KPI cards by default align center-center-aligned in the view.

The setting View Alignment allows you to set it to Top-Center, which will top align the KPI cards vertically.

This is particularly useful when working with mobile layouts and displaying both a large or small number of KPI cards. To account for a large number of KPI cards, this would result in a very long dashboard, the top-center setting will put the first KPI card at the top of the view.

Action Buttons & Zoom

There are options for hiding action buttons in the view and disable zooming.

This is especially handy in small PowerKPIs implementation, where there is no need to sort or zoom and action buttons would cover the view.