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ClaraCo
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1 year ago
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Power BI Custom Visual - Certification

Hello everyone, I'm currently exploring different GIS solutions in Power BI Desktop for a company project. I've tested existing options like ArcGIS, IconMap Pro and Azure Maps. However, developing...
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  • tharunkumarRTK's avatar
    tharunkumarRTK
    1 year ago

    ClaraCo 

    Answer for question 1:

    Everytime you submit the visual for certification, Microsoft thouroughly reviews your visual code. If there are any unsafe HttpRequests found then they will not certify your visual. I would suggest you to go through this article to understand the guidelines 

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/visuals/power-bi-custom-visuals-certified

    Also, go through the FAQs. I believe you will find an answer then those guidelines.

     

    As per my knowledge 
    Power BI Service hosts visuals inside a very restrictive iframe sandbox. By design it blocks any external network traffic that hasn’t been explicitly allowed, which includes your tile requests. The request never leaves Microsoft’s data centre, so the tiles never arrive. So, opting for certification process will not solve your problem. 

     

    I guess hosting these tiles within the tenant network might solve the issue your are facing from power bi service. You can test that approach. If it is working then you can use and distribute that visual within your organisation. 

    2. Answer to question 2:

    You can keep your visual as proprietary . You dont need to make it open source.

     

     

     

     

     

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  • v-nmadadi-msft's avatar
    v-nmadadi-msft
    1 year ago

    Hi ClaraCo  ,
    Thanks for reaching out to the Microsoft fabric community forum.

    These are the things not allowed with custom visuals, no HTTP request can go out of Power BI irrespective of the visual certified by Microsoft or not.
    Get your Power BI visuals certified - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

     


    Capabilities and properties of Power BI visuals - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/visuals/power-bi-custom-visuals-faq



    I hope this information helps. Please do let us know if you have any further queries.
    Thank you

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v-nmadadi-msft
Community Support
1 year ago

Hi ClaraCo 

I wanted to check if you had the opportunity to review the information provided. Please feel free to contact us if you have any further questions.


Thank you.

  • ClaraCo's avatar
    ClaraCo
    Regular Visitor
    1 year ago

    Hi v-nmadadi-msft ,

    I’ve done some research, but I’d appreciate your confirmation on this specific point to be completely sure:

    If we’re using a private custom visual that includes a cartographic background based on open-source tiles (e.g., OSM), is it correct to say that obtaining Microsoft certification would not resolve the issue where these tiles disappear once the report is published to Power BI Service?

    From what I understand, even if it's a simple HTTP/HTTPS call to retrieve map tiles for rendering a background, Power BI may block this behavior in published environments—regardless of certification status—due to trust and security restrictions on external requests.

    Could you please confirm (or correct) this assumption?

    Thank you in advance for your help.