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9 years ago
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Editting an existing Custom Visual

I'm new to creating custom visuals and have looked at a few tutorials.  The main style i saw was making use of PBIViz on the command prompt to make a new folder of resources, editing those and then u...
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    v-chuncz-msft
    9 years ago

    Anonymous,

     

    I mean to replace 'Timeline1447991079100' with a new value.

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9 years ago

Anonymous,

 

You will need to change all the code related to guid in package.json.

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    9 years ago

    The Package.Json has a GUID value of 'Timeline1447991079100'

     

    Inside Timeline.js there is a var Timeline1447991079100; (function (Timeline1447991079100) {  **Lots of Code** }

     

    Inside {** Lots of Code **} is where i've made a tonne of changes.  None of which seem to have an effect on the visual itself.  For example there is a visual that shows "Y - Q - M - W - D" which has only a single reference in the code "this.granularitySelectors = ['Y', 'Q', 'M', 'W', 'D'];"

     

    So i change it to "this.granularitySelectors = ['FY', 'Q', 'M', 'W', 'D'];", save the Timeline.js and putting it back into the .pbiviz using 7-Zip.  Next load that .pbiviz into a Power BI desktop file i have open using the 'Import From File' under visualisations. I connect it to data and all of the visuals are completely unchanged.

     

    If feels like there is some 'compile' step that i'm missing and i'm just updating source code.

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      v-chuncz-msft
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      9 years ago

      Anonymous,

       

      I mean to replace 'Timeline1447991079100' with a new value.

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        Anonymous
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        9 years ago

        I think this must be the right answer.  I incremented this GUID value by 1 and got an error when i've attempted to install the updated package.  The fact that i got the error makes me happy as thats something new.  Thanks for your help!