Questions about Power BI custom visuals: their development, capabilities and usage. Power BI is a self-service analytics tool. Custom visuals are visualization plugins for Power BI, written in TypeScript or JavaScript using the Custom Visuals SDK.
Questions tagged [powerbi-custom-visuals]
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Power BI: excluding a visual from a slicer
I have two different visuals on the same page of a Power BI doc, but one is being affected by the page slicer while the other one isn't. I have other visuals on the same tab that I want to slice by the slicer, so I want to select which visuals are…

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Highcharts custom visuals with Data binding PowerBI
Bharath R created a nice example of how to create a highcharts custom visual for PowerBI. However, no data binding has been applied yet. For the highcharts line diagram below I would like to use variables instead of hard coded values. So that it is…

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Multiple unrelated dataViewMappings for custom visuals Power BI Report Server
There is a well-known problem connected with creating custom visuals for Power BI Report Sever - you can't create multiple unrelated dataViewMappings. It means that every field you put inside Fields must be related.
There have been a long-lasting…

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Custom visual in Power BI using Python
I am trying to replicate this for Python, but cannot find any answer:
Is it possible to use R Plotly library in R Script Visual of Power BI?
or :
https://radacad.com/interactive-map-using-r-and-power-bi-create-custom-visual-part-1
Just to be a…

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Edit Power BI pbiviz custom visual package
I'm looking for editing a custom visual I found in the internet (its tooltip shows some data I'd like to hide).
I found out that the pbiviz file is actually a zipped folder, I extracted it and got a package.json and a folder with another .json…

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Sankey-diagram PowerBI custom visual with color nodes and ordering
The sankey diagram of PowerBI has many possibilities but as you can read on the github site there are some important limitations. The first is that it is not possible to color the nodes. In addition, it is also not possible to change the order of…

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PowerBI Custom DataGrid with Matrix Data Mapping
I've created this custom visual wrapper of ag-grid, as first foray/investigation into custom visual development
https://gitlab.com/nite2/powerbi-ag-grid
It's pretty bare-bones currently, only using the table data mapping - which doesnt allow the…

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PowerBI Visuals Tools - error after pbiviz start command
I trying to start my custom visual (like usually) but after I updated powerbi-custom-visual to version beta 3.0.11 from version 3.0.10 I got the following error:
error ENOENT: no such file or directory, open…

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How to use a card as a filter in Power BI?
Is there a way to use a card as a slicer/filter in Power BI?
My report has two cards, "students_eligible" and "students_attended", as well as a table below them. I want to filter the table based on the cards. Meaning, if I click on the…

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How to change legend order of Pie Chart in PowerBi
As for piechart in powerBi, currently legend order is set by value. I want to reorder it by alphabet order of legend key. I select specified key (IsReady) and flags and show below graph.
Here is my sample data.

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Save Power BI embedded report in Database after making changes
I am using power bi embedded package to embed power bi report - https://github.com/microsoft/powerbi-client-react
Report is embedded in the edit mode so user can create or edit the report. Now I have a save button and once the user makes changes to…

Learn AspNet
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Power BI - Filter table by clicking on a card
In Power BI, I have a table that contains rows associated with one of five possible categories. I've created three cards that shows the count of rows for category 1, category 2, and the remaining three possible categories.
I would like to filter the…

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Show/Hide column in Power BI Table/Matrix visual
Is there any possibility to show or hide the column in Table/Matrix visual in Power BI report by user dynamically?
For Example, I have a table view with columns COLUMN-1, COLUMN-2, COLUMN-3. Now I may have filter drop down to list all the column…

Wanna Coffee
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Cannot write csv file on a secured OneDrive folder using R script in Power BI without OneDrive API
I'm writing a script in Power BI Service using R that will automatically download a specific dataset into a file on OneDrive. However, I keep getting this error:
can only open URLs for readingError in file(file, ifelse(append, "a",
"w")) :…
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Power BI Desktop - how do i see custom visuals
I've made custom visuals on my personal machine in the past but am trying to do the same using a corporate system.
I can see my custom visual at https://app.powerbi.com, but not through Power BI Desktop or on https://localhost:8080. I'm assuming…

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