Likert Survey Pro for Power BI — Visual Guide & Cheat Sheet

Anatomy of a diverging bar

Visual breakdown — one bar per question

Negative pointsLeft of the axis. How many is up to you

NeutralSplit · positive · left out

Positive pointsRight of the axis

Benchmark [Pro]Target or previous wave

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Getting started

Question · Response · Value. One row per question × scale point, with the count in Value.

Scale order. The numeric rank of each point, 1 = leftmost.

Group [Pro]. Draws the questions as labelled blocks with their mean.

⚠ Scale order is not optional in practice

Without it Power BI hands the responses over alphabetically — Agree, Disagree, Neutral, Strongly agree… — which is not a scale. The visual cannot detect that, so it would draw it wrong without saying so.

Data field wells

Required

Question

Grouping — one diverging bar per value.

Required

Response

Grouping — the scale point, up to 30.

Required

Value

Measure — count of answers, or any measure to spread across the scale.

Read the note

Scale order

Measure — numeric rank, 1 = leftmost. Fixes the order and feeds the mean.

Pro only

Group

Grouping — the block each question belongs to.

Optional

Tooltips

Measure — extra measures in the tooltip, in their model format.

Format pane — quick reference

Scale

Negative points
Neutral point
Show as percentage

Colors

Negative
Neutral
Positive
Scale point fx rule

Question table

Block width
Block fill & opacity
Per-block colour
Block font
Question font, size, colour, align
Separator

Block stat [PRO]

Show circle
Mean or responses
Size
Fill

Labels

Show values
Hide under %
Decimals
Question width
Label gap
Font size
Colour

Top / Bottom box [PRO]

Show
Depth
Show NPS
Font size
Text colour
NPS positive / negative

Benchmark [PRO]

Show
Value
Colour

Layout & Legend

Scroll
Min row height
Segment gap
Row gap
Legend show & position

Key features

⇄

Centred on the neutral

Disagreement left, agreement right, from one shared axis. Ten questions compare at a glance.

◐

Three neutral modes

Split across the centre, count as positive, or leave out of the bar — percentages recalculate.

↕

Scale order well

Fixes the order of the scale inside the visual. No Sort by column in the model needed.

🎨

Conditional formatting

One fx button governs the whole scale colour — not one per response.

PRO ▣

Top / Bottom box

The share at each end of the scale, beside the bar, at the depth you choose.

PRO ◉

NPS pill

Top minus bottom, drawn as a pill with its own colours and size.

PRO ▤

Question groups

Blocks as labelled sections, each with its mean in a circle, weighted by responses.

PRO ┊

Benchmark line

One line across every question: a target, or the previous wave.

♿

Accessibility

Roving tabindex, arrows, Enter, Escape, Shift+F10. A label per segment for screen readers.

🔒

No network access

privileges is []. No requests, telemetry or storage. No data leaves the report.

Free vs Pro

Feature	Free	Pro
Diverging bars, centred	✓	✓
All three neutral modes	✓	✓
Percentages or values	✓	✓
Scale order well	✓	✓
Diverging colour ramp	✓	✓
Conditional formatting (fx)	✓	✓
Data labels & threshold	✓	✓
Question & block typography	✓	✓
Per-block colours	✓	✓
Legend & tooltips	✓	✓
Report page tooltips	✓	✓
Cross-filtering & multi-select	✓	✓
Keyboard navigation	✓	✓
High contrast (scale)	✓	✓
Scroll, gaps & row height	✓	✓
Top box / bottom box	—	✓
NPS pill	—	✓
Benchmark line	—	✓
Question groups (blocks)	—	✓
Block mean circle	—	✓

The free tier is correct, not cut down.

No question, scale point or respondent is hidden, and nothing is watermarked in a published report. Pro adds the analyst readings on top.

While you edit without a licence, Pro features render working under a “Pro preview” watermark. Reading view shows the free result, with no watermark.

Pro includes a one-month free trial.