ReadMe - A Power BI Markdown Visual

A custom Power BI visual for displaying familiar, GitHub-styled markdown content with full navigation support. Perfect for creating documentation dashboards, formatted release notes, and searchable data dictionaries in your Power BI reports. Transform your Power BI documentation experience with professional markdown rendering.

Tired of limited native text formatting options? ReadMe brings the power and familiarity of GitHub-style markdown directly into your reports. Whether you're a business analyst documenting data models, a developer creating technical specifications, or a project manager maintaining release notes, this visual delivers the rich formatting and navigation capabilities you've been missing.

Who benefits from ReadMe?

• Data analysts and BI developers who need to document complex data models and business logic
• Project managers creating formatted release notes and project documentation
• Technical teams building searchable data dictionaries and API documentation
• Business users who want professional-looking documentation without HTML complexity

Solve your documentation pain points:

• Replace clunky native text boxes with rich, formatted content
• Create navigable documentation with linked table of contents and headers
• Maintain consistent, professional formatting across all your reports
• Build responsive documentation that adapts to any visual size

Perfect for the modern Power BI workflow:

With the introduction of .pbip files, Power BI now offers source control capabilities for your reports. Why not extend that same source control approach to your documentation in a format developers are familiar with? Store your markdown content in your repository, setup a connection with your report, and ReadMe will render them without any tinkering needed. Your documentation evolves with your codebase, teams can update documentation without even opening the report, and everything stays in sync.

Key features:

• Authentic GitHub markdown CSS styling
• Full markdown support: headers, links, lists, tables, code blocks, images
• Create an index that links directly to the subsection.
• Responsive design that adapts to any visual size
• Built-in XSS protection for secure content rendering
• Customizable fonts, sizing, and colors
• Zero-configuration setup - just add your markdown text

Stop fighting with text editors, start productionizing with ReadMe.