Scales settings for Charticulator

[一棵黄葛树]

Hello everyone, when using Charticulator Community Version (Editor), I am unable to save the color of Scales. Regardless of whether I cancel the Auto update values setting, I can see that it is the set color during editing. However, when saving and back to the report  returns the default color. I don't know if it's because I didn't set it up correctly or if it's a bug in the software itself?

[Mauro89 · Accepted solution]

Hi @一棵黄葛树,

long time ago you post 😉

as of my knowledge, this is not caused by your settings — it’s a known limitation of the Charticulator Community Version (the standalone editor).
Color changes made in the Scales panel often do not persist when exported back into Power BI because:

1. The community editor does not fully support saving custom scale definitions (categorical color scale is reset automatically).

2. Power BI overwrites scale settings on import if the visual contains a categorical field without a fixed color mapping.

3. Only the customized legend mapping inside Power BI is honored, not the scale settings from the Charticulator editor.

What you can do

To make colors stick:

1. In Charticulator, assign colors directly to shapes (using Attribute → Fill), not through Scales.

2. Or, once imported into Power BI, open the visual’s formatting pane → Data colors → manually assign category colors there.

3. If you need fully persistent colors, use the Power BI version of Charticulator (visual editor) instead of the standalone Community Version.

Hope this helps, if yes, consider leaving Kudos or mark it as solution.

Best regards!