Trading Cards

Tab

Moves to the deck, which is one tab stop; the focused card is marked with the focus outline. While Wall mode cycles, the Pause / Play button is a second tab stop.

Arrow keys

In the Deck, move to the next or previous card in reading order, or a row up or down. In Boardroom, Up and Down move between rows. In Spotlight, step to the previous or next card.

Home / End

Jump to the first or the last card.

Enter or Space

Selects the focused card and cross-filters the page. Hold Ctrl or Shift to add it to the selection.

F

Flips the focused card to its back or front.

Shift+F

Flips all cards.

D

Plays the focused card head to head in the Duel (Premium).

P

In Spotlight, pauses or plays the Wall mode cycle.

Left / Right arrow (Duel)

Choose the left or the right side of the duel.

Up / Down arrow (Duel)

Cycle the card on the chosen side; F flips it.

Esc

Clears the selection. In a duel opened with D or the Duel button, returns to the deck.

• Screen readers

  The deck is a list of options labelled with the number of cards and the keys to use. Each card is read with its number, name, set, tier, power score and front stats, including each stat's percentile and target status; when a card is flipped, the back is read with every stat's value, percentile, rank and change. A polite live region announces a flip, the duel result ("Head to head: Anna Schmidt against Team average" with the tally) and when the Wall mode cycle is paused or playing.

• Not colour alone

  Each tier has its own shape (circle, diamond, hexagon, star), number of pips and word. In the Duel the winner of each stat is marked with a triangle and bold text, and target status uses a mark and a word (met, near, missed) as well as colour. Status colours are lifted to at least 4.5:1 against the card face.

• High contrast

  In Windows high contrast mode every theme and skin gives way to the system's foreground and background colours, the focus outline uses the selection colour, and the Colors, Sets and Card Accent cards are hidden; tiers keep their shapes, pips and words.

• Reduced motion

  When reduced motion applies there is no deal-in animation, the flip is an instant face swap, the Holo Foil sheen is static and the Wall mode cycle stops. The visual follows the system setting by default.

• Accessibility card: Reduce Motion

  Follow system setting (default), Always reduce or Off (always animate).

• Accessibility card: Focus Outline Color and Focus Outline Width (px)

  The colour and the width (1 to 8 px, 2.5 by default) of the outline on the focused card. In high contrast mode the system colour is always kept.

• Accessibility card: Minimum Text Size (px, 0 = Off)

  No text in the visual is drawn smaller than this size, up to 32 px. Off by default.

• Pause control

  Whenever the Spotlight cycles, a visible Pause / Play button stops and restarts it (also the P key), and the cycle pauses while the pointer is over the visual or the deck has the keyboard focus.

• Context menu

  Right-clicking a card opens the Power BI context menu for it; right-clicking elsewhere opens it for the visual.

• Pointer-only controls

  The set chips and the toolbar buttons are not tab stops. Flip all and the Duel have their own keys (Shift+F, D); to filter by set with the keyboard, use a slicer on the Set field.

• Languages

  The format pane, the data roles, every word on a card, the tooltips and the screen-reader text are available in 20 languages: English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

Some viewers only see 5 of our 16 reps, with "Showing 5 of 16" under the cards.

More than 5 cards is a Premium feature. A reader without a licence sees the first 5 in the author's Layout > Sort By order, and their numbers are computed on all 16 reps, so the ranks and tiers match what a licensed colleague sees. Assign a SmartVisuals Trading Cards licence to the reader in the Microsoft 365 admin center. In edit mode the full deck is always shown.

The Duel, the targets or the sparklines show for me but not for my readers.

Edit mode previews every Premium feature. In reading view without a licence the Duel layout shows the Deck, Compare, target status and History are left out, custom tier thresholds and names return to the defaults (90, 70, 40), the You ring is not drawn, a Collector Skin falls back to the chosen Theme and Wall mode is stepped by hand. Power BI shows one banner whose tooltip names what was withheld. The report is never blocked or watermarked.

A photo does not show and the card draws initials instead.

The visual draws only image data URIs (data:image/png;base64,...) and refuses web addresses, values that are not images, invalid base64 and pictures cut off at Power BI's 32,766-character text column limit. Card Face > Show Picture says how many pictures were not shown and why. Use smaller pictures (under about 20 kB) in Picture, or bind a measure to Picture (Measure), which takes up to 2,000,000 characters per card; the sample report has the Power Query and CONCATENATEX recipe for a folder or SharePoint library of photos.

The rep with the shortest days to close is ranked worst.

By default a higher value is better. Open Stats, find the stat under its own name and turn on Lower Is Better. The percentile, the rank, the power score and the duel then treat a smaller value as better for that stat only, and the label shows an arrow.

A rep shows "–" for a stat, and the tiers look different than I expected.

"–" means the stat has no value for that card. It is never counted as zero: the card's power score averages only the stats it has, and other cards' percentiles are computed among the cards that have a value. If the status strip says "Only 4 ranked cards: tiers compare very few cards", the tiers compare fewer than 5 cards and mean little; add cards or widen the filter.

With a History field, win rate or headcount adds up to nonsense.

With History, each card combines its periods per stat by Stats > Combine Periods By. Auto sums plain numbers and averages percentages. A rate, an average or a stock such as headcount does not add up over periods: choose Average, Latest or Maximum for that stat.

GUID available after the visual is published on Microsoft Marketplace.