We built an interactive, calendar-style meeting view inside Power BI. The new Card visual makes it easy to create beautifully customized layouts. This project demonstrates how to build a clean, visual calendar featuring meeting times, candidate names, images, and icons, while explaining how the new Card visual functions. This method utilizes the new Card visual to display meeting schedules across clean, modern calendar grids. The setup integrates dynamic time slots, participant avatars, and color-coded status indicators. Users can filter by date or room, quickly transforming standard row data into an executive-ready dashboard layout.
- Interactive Calendar Layout: Replaces standard rows with a clean, modern calendar grid inside Power BI.
- Advanced Card Customization: Utilizes the new Card visual to build beautifully tailored, executive-ready layouts.
- Rich Data Integration: Displays meeting times, candidate names, images, icons, and participant avatars.
- Dynamic Indicators: Features real-time, color-coded status tracking for quick schedule overviews.
- Effortless Filtering: Allows users to instantly sort and filter schedule data by date or room.
- Clone this repository or download the
.pbixfile. - Open the file in Power BI Desktop (ensuring you have the latest update for Card visual support).
- Connect your own data source using the provided schema template.
- Developed an advanced candidate card visual featuring dynamic layout styling, candidate profile images, and live meeting status indicators.
- Engineered custom DAX measures to calculate real-time meeting schedules, automatically determining meeting status to dynamically extract and display candidate icons.
- Designed and implemented tailored
jsonthemes to ensure consistent branding, improved accessibility, and a polished UI/UX across the dashboard.
The New Card Visual is a modern, core visual container in Power BI designed to replace the legacy single-value card. It transforms how report authors present key metrics by allowing multiple data points to live inside a single, highly customizable object. Instead of building messy workarounds with shapes, text boxes, and multiple individual cards, the new card visual acts as a native design toolkit. It is built for performance and aesthetic control, making it easier than ever to create clean, executive-level dashboards.
- Multi-KPI Container: You can display several metrics within one single visual block instead of creating five separate cards.
- Reference Labels: This feature allows you to attach secondary metrics (like week-over-week growth or targets) directly below your main number.
- Integrated Images: You can bind dynamic URLs or static icons directly to specific metrics to visually flag trends or categories.
- Advanced Grid Controls: It features comprehensive layout spacing options that let you orient cards vertically, horizontally, or in custom grid dimensions.
