Radial Gauge: can “baseline” be lower than “target”

[Vi12]

Is it possible to set “max” to a lower value than “min” in a radial gauge in cases where a lower value is the goal? Similarly to setting “green” as “good” in the KPi visual?

We are using the gauges in a dashboard where a few KPIs are about reducing numbers, not increasing them, and it would be great for this to be visually similar to the “standard” assumption that higher is better.

The Tachometer seems to handle this, but it does not display well when small.

[v-danhe-msft]

Hi @Vi12 ,

Could you please post some simple sample data and your desired result to have a test if possible?

You could see this post regarding How to Get Your Question Answered Quickly: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/How-to-Get-Your-Question-Answered-Quickly/ba-p/38490

Regards,

Daniel He

[Vi12]

Thank you for the link to the useful " How to Get Your Question Answered Quickly" post. As newcomer in a forum like this I apologize for newbie errors.

Here is the sample CSV data for the Pictures below (with headers!):

Actual,Baseline,EOY target,YTD target
175,200,100,165

What I want to display: I want to use the Gauge to display progress from a higher start value (200) to a lower end value (100). This is relevant for example when targeting lower costs.

Picture 1: shows how the Visual Gauge looks like when I try to do this. It requires the start value to be lower than the end value. So it does not display any actual value (175) or current target (165)

This is how the Gauge looks when "Start" value (200) is higher than "End" value (100)

Picture 2: I found a custom visual called the "Tachometer" that can be designed to almost look like the gauge and that displays what I want:

This is how I want it to look with progress from 200 to 100

However the tachometer has some limitations such as inadequate size/scaling for my needs compared to the standard Gauge, so I cannot use it.

Picture 3: I can of course use the standard Gauge to indicate decline "from right to left. However I want to use it in a dashboard with a number of gauges where almost all the ther gauges display progress from "Start" to "End", so having a few gauges that progress in the opposite direction makes it difficult to understand and ruins the simple "at a glance" impression of the dashboard.

Standard Gauge - Progress from right to left

So in a nutshell I would really appreciate if the standard Visual Gauge could work like the Tachometer in Picture 2. Is this possible?

[v-danhe-msft]

Hi @Vi12 ,

Based on my research, I am afraid you could not achieve this feature currently, I suggest you may submit an idea in ideas forum:

Power BI Ideas: Hot (13793 ideas) – Microsoft Power BI

Regards,

Daniel He

[Vi12]

Thank you.