Process Metro Map

Tab

Moves to the map, which is one tab stop. The first station of the main line takes the focus ring.

Left / Right arrow

Moves to the previous or next station on the current line. In a vertical map, Up and Down do this.

Up / Down arrow

Changes line: at an interchange to the same station on the neighbouring line, otherwise to the nearest station of that line. In a vertical map, Left and Right do this.

Home / End

Jumps to the first or the last station of the current line.

Enter or Space

Selects the focused station and cross-filters the page. Hold Ctrl to add it to the selection.

Shift+F10 or the menu key

Opens the Power BI context menu for the focused station.

Esc

Clears the selection.

P

Pauses or resumes the moving trains, when Animation > Moving Trains is on.

• Screen readers

  The map is labelled with what it shows, such as "Metro map, 9 stations on 3 lines" or "Metro map of Standard, 6 stations", and how to move around it; in the free view the label adds "Showing 6 of 7 stages". As the focus moves, a polite live region reads the station name, its line, its position ("Station 3 of 7") and its tooltip values. A visually hidden table lists every stage with its traffic, share of start, share of previous station, drop-off and, when bound, time, target and change.

• Not colour alone

  Every line starts with a bullet holding its initials, and the legend repeats bullet and name. A late leg carries a clock glyph, the overrun and a dashed outline, changes at stations carry an up or down arrow, and time heat keeps the time on every badge with a quicker-to-slower key in the legend.

• High contrast

  In Windows high contrast mode the map uses the contrast theme's foreground and background colours, every line gets its own stripe pattern, the focus ring uses the system colour and time heat is switched off. Bullets, names, clocks and arrows still identify lines and late legs.

• Reduced motion

  With Accessibility > Reduce Motion set to Follow system setting (the default), the viewer's reduced-motion preference turns off the draw-in and the moving trains, leaving the final map only. Always reduce forces this for everyone; Off (always animate) ignores the preference. Export and print always get the finished map.

• Context menu

  Right-clicking a station or a line, or pressing Shift+F10 or the menu key on the focused station, opens the Power BI context menu for it; right-clicking elsewhere opens it for the visual.

• Focus Outline Color and Focus Outline Width

  Accessibility > Focus Outline Color sets the colour of the keyboard focus ring around the focused station (empty follows the theme; high contrast always uses the system colour). Focus Outline Width sets its width from 1 to 8 px, 2 px by default.

• Minimum Text Size

  Accessibility > Minimum Text Size (px, 0 = Off) keeps every label at or above the size you set. When the tile is too small, labels are left out rather than shrunk; the tooltip, the keyboard and the screen-reader table still have them.

• Line Patterns

  Accessibility > Line Patterns gives every line its own stripe pattern so lines are told apart without colour: In high contrast (the default), Always or Off.

• Languages

  The format pane and the text the visual writes follow the Power BI language. They are translated into Czech, Slovak, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese (Brazil); in other languages the visual uses English.

The stations are in the wrong order.

Without Stage Order, stations are ordered by traffic, largest first, so a stage that gains traffic jumps ahead. Bind a step number or sortable text to Stage Order. When every value is a number the order is numeric; otherwise it is natural text order, where "9 Produced" comes before "10 Shipped" but "Produced" comes before "Scheduled", so prefer a step number over stage names. Stages with the same step line up in the same column.

The badges say days, but my measure is in hours.

Leg Times > Time Unit labels the number from Time From Previous Stage; it does not convert it. Set Time Unit to the unit your measure returns (Days, Hours, Minutes, Weeks or Months), or choose "Use the measure's format" to use the measure's own format string. Leg Times > Decimals sets the precision.

Readers see only six stations, or one line instead of several.

Readers without a Premium licence in reading view see the free tier: one line of up to six stages, with a note such as "Showing 6 of 7 stages". Lines that call at the same stages are summed into one line named "All" followed by the Line field name; a branching network shows its main line by name. Leg times, targets, comparison, time heat and the insight sentence are left out. Nothing is blocked or watermarked, and in edit mode every Premium feature can be tried.

A warning icon says some rows were not drawn as they are.

A negative or invalid Traffic value counts as 0 and is counted in the warning, and rows without a stage name are skipped and counted. A blank Traffic value counts as 0 without a warning. Check the Traffic measure and the Stage column for those rows.

A line called (Blank) appears.

Rows with an empty Line (Path) value are drawn as their own line named (Blank). Filter those rows out, or fill the line value in the data.

Names or values disappear on a small tile.

When space runs short, the visual angles the names, then shows every other name, then drops values, rather than letting labels overlap or be cut; the tooltip, the keyboard and the screen-reader table keep them. Make the tile larger, set Layout > Orientation to Vertical for a tall tile, lower Stations > Name Size or Value Size, or set Stations > Angled Names to Always. Accessibility > Minimum Text Size makes the visual drop labels rather than shrink them below that size.

GUID available after the visual is published on Microsoft Marketplace.