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lukaszp
Power BI Team
10 years ago

Feedback Request: Custom Visuals V1 APIs Suggestions

We’ve seen many wonderful custom visuals created by many people all over the world. We’re always amazed by how many different visuals folks are creating and how they enhance reports helping users mak...
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jdrake
Regular Visitor
10 years ago

lukaszp I think my biggest asks around for context APIs and documentation.

 

Example of context methods:

- getViewMode (@bashirs said a fix was going out soon)

- inFocusMode

- getVisualId (this may exist?)

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    lukaszp
    Power BI Team
    10 years ago

    Thanks jdrake.  Could you tell me more what you mean by getVisualId.  How would you use it if we gave you such a property? 

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      jdrake
      Regular Visitor
      10 years ago

      lukaszp When init or update is called, it would be helpful to have a unique ID for the visual (and additionally an ID for any data object in the dataView, like categories and values). For our product this would be used in server-side API hits while debugging.

       

      Separately, it would be cool to have a read-only API for seeing what other objects (and therefore selected data) are on the page. Use case: our extension could list existing objects on the page and have the user select which one to use as a data source, instead of them configuring our visual with the same dimensions/measures.

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    lukaszp
    Power BI Team
    10 years ago

    Thanks jdrake.  Could you tell me more what you mean by getVisualId.  How would you use it if we gave you such a property?