In recent years, Power BI expanded SVG support in Table, Matrix, Card, and Image visuals, as well as Button and List Slicers. Andrzej Leszkiewicz shows how to use SVGs to customize core visuals for clarity and impact. The goal of this customization is not to decorate, but to streamline and unify BI reports.

You'll learn how to build IBCS-guided reports for clearer business insights (IBCS: International Business Communication Standards, see also ISO 24896 Notation for business reporting); how to embed charts into P&L reports; how to turn charts into slicers and slicers into charts; how to make a Top N + Others bar chart without any changes to the data model; and other ways to improve your reports.

With user-defined functions (UDFs) introduced in 2025, report unification through customization is easier than ever. Free open-source UDF libraries let you embed charts into the core visuals just by calling a function.

Take your Power BI visuals to the next level in this hands-on deep dive!

Examples of IBCS-guided data visualizations embedded into Power BI’s core visuals and slicers as SVG images generated by user-defined functions: https://www.powerofbi.org/powerofbi-ibcs-user-defined-functions/