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Elevate Your Power BI Tables with Custom Icons šŸ„³

Step-by-Step Guide with PBIX to Embedding Custom Icons in Your Power BI Reports

Isabelle Bittar
The BI Corner
7 min readDec 31, 2024

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By Isabelle Bittar for KI Data Science

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Introduction

Power BI tables are amazing. They offer many customization options through various methods. While I often rely on SVG measures/columns to create the look and feel I want, I recently started using a method thatā€™s much lighter on visual load times and avoids other challenges such as column sorting.

This approach involves embedding custom icons (svgs, png/jpeg images, GIFs, etc.) directly into the JSON theme file and applying them through conditional formatting of cell elements in tables. This method ensures faster performance, avoids sorting issues, and provides a polished look without extra columns.

In the following article, I will take you through how I added the following icons in the Shop Name column of this table.

Custom Icons Added to Shop Names in Power BI

1. Getting Started

Hereā€™s my initial data table in Power BI before I added the custom icons to the Shopā€¦

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Isabelle Bittar
Isabelle Bittar

Written by Isabelle Bittar

Isabelle is a Montreal-based business consultant specialized in data science.

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