Bridge · Compare

How you got from one number to the next

“Revenue went from 4.2 to 4.49 million” is the headline, but the meeting wants to know why. Power BI’s own waterfall can’t compare the end result with a target, can’t build a bridge from separate measures, only draws columns, and colours rises and falls green and red, which many people can’t tell apart.

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Volume carried revenue; FX and churn took 0.39 backRevenue, 2025 to 2026, M€
4.20+0.32+0.484.49−0.112025PriceVol.MixFXChurn2026Target
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Volume carried revenue; FX and churn took 0.39 backRevenue, 2025 to 2026, M€
4.20+0.32+0.484.49−0.112025PriceVol.MixFXChurn2026Target
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What it shows

Bridge draws the walk from a start value to an end value, one bar per step. Each step floats on the running total before it, rises in fjord blue and falls in ember orange, with the change written above it with a real plus or minus sign. Dotted lines carry the running total from bar to bar. In Pro, a dashed target column shows how far the end total is from the target, with the gap filled in and labelled.

How to set it up

Add Bridge from AppSource or the .pbiviz file, then drag in:

Category
The steps, such as Price, Volume, Mix, FX and Churn. If the first row is the opening total, it is drawn as the start bar.
Values
The amount of each step. Increases are positive, decreases negative. With no category, drop several measures here instead (Pro): the first is the start and each of the others is a step.
TargetPro
The number the end total is compared with, such as budget.

Read the full Bridge guide

In the report

  • Hover a bar for its change, its share of the start and the running total after it.
  • Click a step to filter the rest of the report, Ctrl+click for several, right-click for the context menu.
  • A percent measure shows its steps in percentage points (“−0.8 pp”).
  • Highlight the biggest change, rise or fall: those labels stay bold and the others turn grey.
  • Light or dark background, high-contrast mode, and your own rise, fall and total colours.
  • Tab into the chart, move with the arrow keys, Enter to select, Escape to clear. Screen readers hear each step.
  • The format pane and messages are in English and Norwegian.

Free and Pro

FeatureFreePro
Bridge from a category: start total, steps, end total✓✓
Subtotals by name, sorting, grouping small steps into Other✓✓
Steps as values or percent of start, percentage points for percent measures✓✓
Connector lines, highlight rules, own colours, zoomed or zero-based axis✓✓
Tooltips, cross-filtering, keyboard, high contrast, light and dark✓✓
Measures only: a bridge from separate measures, no category table needed—✓
Target gap: the end total against a target, with the gap filled in—✓
Horizontal bars, for long step names and P&L-style bridges—✓

Free features always work, with no key and no tag. Pro features need a licence key for Bridge or Everything. Without a valid key, measures are shown as plain columns, the target is left out and bars are drawn as columns, with a short notice and a “Try Pro free” button. A paid key keeps Pro working for 7 days after it runs out, so a late renewal never breaks a report.

Your data stays in your report

Bridge makes no network calls and stores nothing outside the report. The licence key is checked inside the visual, so it also works offline, in Report Server and in locked-down tenants.

How the visuals handle data

Pro licence
$36per creator a year
$3per viewer a year

For Bridge alone. The entire suite is $90 per creator and $7.50 per viewer, or license the whole organisation.

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