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The Aurum Jet series: native animation and theming in Power BI

Aurum Jet is a free Power BI report for a fictional private jet operator, with animations, a Light and Dark switch and photos that follow the data, and not one custom visual. The series starts with the report itself, then explains one technique per article.

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The Aurum Jet Dashboard in Light mode and the Flights page in Dark mode, two pages of a Power BI report built with native visuals onlyFree reports19 October 202610 min read

Aurum Jet: a free Power BI report with no custom visuals

Download Aurum Jet, a free Power BI report built with an AI agent: Light and Dark mode, native SVG animations, photos that follow the data, zero custom visuals.SVG and DAX visualsAnimationPage design and theming
A dashed route from PAR to NCE with a gold jet stopped at 60 % of its length, next to the attribute that does it: keyPoints 0;0.600Design techniques24 October 20269 min read

The jet that stops where the flight is: SVG motion in a Power BI measure

Make a jet fly along its route and stop at the share of the flight already flown, with SVG animateMotion written by a DAX measure, in a native card.AnimationSVG and DAX visualsMaps
One Aurum Jet card cut in two, Light on the left and Dark on the right, with the colour measures that switch itDesign techniques24 October 202610 min read

Light and Dark mode in Power BI: what follows a measure, and what doesn't

A real Light and Dark switch with one slicer and colour measures, and the four things Power BI won't recolour from a measure, with the fix for each one.Page design and themingSlicers and navigation
Gold arcs between European airports over a land made of dots, the network of routes that one DAX measure draws in Aurum JetDesign techniques24 October 202610 min read

A route map drawn by a DAX measure: arcs, airports and a map that frames itself

No map visual: one SVG measure projects airports, draws the period's routes as arcs weighted by traffic, labels the busiest without overlap and reframes itself.MapsSVG and DAX visuals
The 44 segments of the Aurum Jet speed gauge laid out in a row, each with its own start time, from begin 0.00s to begin 1.16sDesign techniques24 October 20269 min read

A gauge that fills segment by segment: staggered SVG animations in Power BI

Gauges that fill segment by segment, bars that rise one after another, lists that appear row by row: one DAX pattern gives each SVG element its own start time.AnimationSVG and DAX visuals

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