Changelog

A summary of the main releases of the ChartPad Bump Chart, with new features and bug fixes for each version. The most recent release is listed first.

Rollout timing

After a version is released, it takes roughly 2 weeks to roll out across the Power BI online service and the Desktop applications. If you don't see the latest changes yet, allow some time for the update to reach your environment.

v1.2.0.0

Released 2026-08-27

New features

• Direct license keys — a License card at the top of the Format pane accepts a signed key, licensing the visual in environments AppSource licensing doesn't cover (Report Server, Embedded, Publish to web, SharePoint, sovereign clouds). Keys are verified offline, with no external calls, and report a clear status line — including a distinct "requires HTTPS" message on a plain-HTTP Report Server instead of a misleading "invalid key". See Direct license keys.
• Rebuilt landing page — the page shown before any fields are bound now explains what each field well does, with an example for each, tags Tooltips as optional, and carries a Documentation button that opens this site. It adapts to small tiles and mirrors for right-to-left languages.

Improvements

• Keyboard focus is much easier to see — the focus indicator now hugs the shape of the focused line or marker instead of drawing a rectangle around its bounding box, and a focused item is shown at full strength even when the rest of the chart is dimmed. See Keyboard and accessibility.

v1.0.0.9

Released 2026-08-07

Improvements

• Out-of-range settings can no longer break the chart. Every numeric setting — line width, marker size, the three text sizes, opacity, Top N and decimal places — is re-checked when the report loads and brought back into its documented range. Previously a value from a hand-edited report theme, or from a report saved by an older build, could push the layout beyond the visual's bounds and leave it blank. The Format pane now shows the value the chart actually used. See Formatting reference.

v1.0.0.8

Released 2026-08-07

A correctness release: the archetypal bump chart — ranking by month across two years — did not render correctly before it.

New features

• Display units and decimal places for tooltip values — a new Display units dropdown (Auto, None, Thousands, Millions, Billions) and Decimal places box on the Tooltips card. Auto picks the unit from each value's own magnitude, so a small number beside a large one reads as 847 rather than 0M. See Value formatting in tooltips.

Bug fixes

• Text periods keep your model's sort order. They were previously re-sorted alphabetically, so a Month Name column sorted by Month Number in the model rendered as Apr, Aug, Dec, Feb, Jan…. Date and number columns continue to sort ascending. See How your periods are ordered.
• Periods that share a label no longer collapse onto one position. Two years of monthly data produced twelve axis positions instead of twenty-four, folding every line back on itself. Each period now gets its own step.
• Dates and numbers are formatted. Axis labels used to read Mon Jan 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (…) and tooltip values appeared as raw numbers. The Time column, the ranked value and every field bound to Tooltips now follow their model format strings and the viewer's locale.
• Tooltips use your own field names instead of the generic labels Series, Category and Value.
• The Format pane no longer fails while the landing page is showing. Opening the pane with an incomplete field well used to leave it broken until the visual had data. Per-series colour pickers left over from a previous dataset are also cleared, so Data Colors no longer lists series that aren't there.

Improvements

• A new visual icon.

v1.0.0

Initial release: 2025-12-05, with updates through 1.0.0.7 (2025-12-24)

The first public version of the Bump Chart.

Included at launch

• Ranks calculated for you — series are ranked at every period from the measure you bind, highest first, with no rank column needed.
• Lines — smooth or linear, with adjustable width and opacity.
• Markers — circle, square or hexagon, in any size, with the period's rank number printed inside them. See Node shape.
• Series labels at both ends of each line, independently switchable, with automatic collision avoidance.
• Ranking card — Reverse Rank to put first place at the bottom, and Show only Top N items to cut a crowded field back to the contenders. See Ranking & Top N.
• Legend in eight positions, with an optional title, its own colour and text size.
• X-axis labels with adjustable size and colour.
• Per-series colour pickers, defaulting to the report theme palette and keyed by series name so colours survive a refresh.
• Cross-filtering by clicking a line, a marker or a legend item, with ctrl+click multi-select, selection across visuals, and support for being cross-highlighted by other visuals.
• Report-page tooltips as well as standard ones.
• Keyboard access to every line and marker, and screen-reader labels.
• Landing page listing the fields to bind.
• 36 interface languages, following the viewer's Power BI language.

Added in the 1.0.0.x updates

• A Show toggle for tooltips on the Tooltips card (1.0.0.2).
• Extra tooltip fields render on hover — up to five columns or measures bound to the Tooltips well, each keeping its own model formatting (1.0.0.3). See Tooltips.
• Render status is reported to Power BI, so exports to PDF and PowerPoint, and email subscriptions, wait for the chart to finish drawing before capturing it (1.0.0.4).
• Marker size accepts 1–20 and rejects values outside it; the default was raised from 9 to 12 (1.0.0.4).
• Field wells are limited to one Series, one Time and one Value column, and up to five Tooltips fields, so an unsupported combination can't be built by accident (1.0.0.5).

Bug fixes

• Full high-contrast support (1.0.0.2) — lines, axis labels, markers and the landing page all take the Windows system palette, markers gain a contrasting outline, and dimmed series stay visible instead of fading out of sight.