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Anonymous
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6 years ago
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Import pbiviz from file instead gets latest appsource version

Hello, I recently had some of my visuals accepted to appsource. I have since made improvements and intended to push out the latest version to the store, but in order to do that I need to update t...
  • v-evelk's avatar
    v-evelk
    6 years ago

    Hello,

     

    It's the expected behavior.

    Your visual is in CDN and PowerBI takes it from there by GUID, despite you imort new one.

    If you want to test your changes, you can change GUID and import the visual, however, the report for submission sending has to contain visual with original GUID.

     

    Kind Regards,

     

    Evgenii Elkin,
    Software Engineer
    Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals
    [email protected]

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v-evelk
Microsoft Employee
6 years ago

Hello,

 

It's the expected behavior.

Your visual is in CDN and PowerBI takes it from there by GUID, despite you imort new one.

If you want to test your changes, you can change GUID and import the visual, however, the report for submission sending has to contain visual with original GUID.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Evgenii Elkin,
Software Engineer
Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals
[email protected]

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
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6 years ago

So when I submit the visual and sample report, The sample report will contain the old visual?

Email will have attached Visual Version 2.0, and sample report containing visual 1.0?

Thanks for the reply

  • v-evelk's avatar
    v-evelk
    Microsoft Employee
    6 years ago

    I recommend to re-import the visual into the report nevertheless.

     

    Evgenii Elkin,
    Software Engineer
    Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals
    [email protected]

    • dm-p's avatar
      dm-p
      Super User
      6 years ago
      v-evelk wrote:

      I recommend to re-import the visual into the report nevertheless.

      I have found that if you don't do this, the email submission process will automatically reject your workbook and ask you to ensure the updated version has been imported into the workbook. Even though it loads from the CDN, the actual imported packaged visual is stored in the workbook binary and can be seen if you unzip the .pbix file.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      6 years ago

      I will try this Evgenii,

      Thanks for the help.

      It would be nice to add a checkbox somewhere that told power bi to ignore the CDN.
      You can pull this off by disabling your network connection at the time of importing from file, or as you said changing the GUID for the visual but this is a bigger pain than needed to ensure we are delivering quality products to power bi users.

      Ryan

      • dm-p's avatar
        dm-p
        Super User
        6 years ago

        Another workaround: If you have admin control of your Power BI tenant (or can work with someone who does), then you can also upload your custom visual as an organizational visual and import it from your organizational store. This will override anything currently in AppSource and I frequently use it as an alternate testing approach.