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Status Submitted
Workspace Planning Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 31, 2026

Apply custom fonts to the entire cube view widget, including context dimensions

Dear team,
Description

Custom fonts in Planning Analytics Workspace apply to view content (data cells, row/column headers and text boxes). They do not apply to the context dimensions that are part of the same cube view widget. Those continue to use the product UI font.

Result:
with a corporate font selected, the grid is branded while the context dimensions belonging to the same view are not.

Current behaviour

  1. Upload a custom font under Administration → Excel and Customizations → Fonts.

  2. Open a book and apply that font to an exploration (data cells / headers).

  3. Context dimensions for that view remain on the product UI font.

  4. There is no setting that applies the font to the whole widget.

This matches the documented scope of custom fonts and has been observable since at least PAW 2.0.46.

Request

Provide a view-level font for the cube view / exploration widget, applied by default to:

  • Data cells

  • Row headers

  • Column headers

  • Context dimensions on the widget

Allow optional per-element overrides where required.

The workspace UI outside the widget — such as navigation, tree, properties and application bar - should remain on the product UI font.

Why

Corporate branding in books is otherwise only partially applied. Authors need one control for a complete view instead of mixed typefaces within a single widget.

This is particularly relevant for customer-facing dashboards, screenshots/exports and presentations where consistent corporate identity is required.

The scope is intentionally limited to the cube view widget and does not request a global PAW UI font or theme change.

Thanks in advance.
With best regards,
Vitalij

Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)
  • Guest
    Aug 31, 2026

    +1

    I think this would be a useful improvement. If a custom font is applied to an exploration, it makes sense that the context dimensions belonging to the same widget would follow the same formatting.

    Having different fonts within the same view makes the customization feel incomplete. A view-level font with the option to override individual elements would provide a much more consistent result.