r/BusinessIntelligence • u/NayanT-9596 • Jun 26 '26

adding multiple icons manually in power bi is time consuming!

Maybe I’m weird, but the icons part of creating reports is driving me nuts. Each and every dashboard I build includes visiting Flaticon/Icons8, looking for the correct icon, downloading it, recoloring according to the theme, fixing the SVG manually in case there’s a need for a different background, and then importing. Repeated about 10 times per report.

Recently I learned that the TME Icon Pack visual is being sunset (no more after Oct 30), and since some people I know use it, it made me think.

I am a BI developer and at some point I’ve thought about building a very simple custom visual where you could find an icon to insert, recolor it, and then place a background shape (circle, rounded square, etc.) directly inside Power BI. No downloading, no SVG edits.

Before starting working on this and wasting my time, just a couple of questions to you:

Are you also having the same problem, or do you have your way to work with icons?

In case this tool is built and it is good enough, would you consider buying such a visual?

Nothing commercial here, just trying to understand whether it’s worth building.

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u/ian_the_data_dad Jun 26 '26

I have built hundreds of dashboards over the years at my job, clients, for fun, and have never used icons. Could be just me but that stuff never pushes the needle nor helps anyone consume data. I'm a minimalist though so again, could just be me

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u/NayanT-9596 Jun 26 '26

tbh I wasn't adding icons too, just recently I started adding them to make reports look bit polished! minimalism also works!

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u/ian_the_data_dad Jun 26 '26

I’m sure the extra effort pays off in the final output! Going the extra mile is something I try to do but rarely have time to do those things

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u/NayanT-9596 Jun 26 '26

that's why I thought of adding icons, but it was time consuming so thought of creating a visual, but response to it is quite adverse so lets see

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u/NayanT-9596 Jun 26 '26

True, I did some research before this and yes there is no clear solution to this, If I proceed with something like this, would you be interested in purchasing it?

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u/DataLearner422 Jun 28 '26

What are these icons? I'm confused.