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10 years ago
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remove custom visuals from desktop

I imported a custom visuals into my Desktop before. Now I want to get rid of it from my visual list so that I dont get warning in Service any more given that I dont need it at all. How can I do so? ...
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  • PowerDAX's avatar
    PowerDAX
    10 years ago

    Just out of curiosity, I attempted to remove the visuals via the file extension trick.  With this, you change the report file extension from .pbix to .zip). Extract the zip file to a folder.  Browse to the Report --> Custom Visuals directory and remove the custom visualization that you don't need.  Zip the file back up and then rename the extension from .zip to .pbix.

     

    This works to remove the visualization from the options but still gives the custom visualization prompt to enable them.

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forchard
New Member
10 years ago

Hi!

 

I managed to remove the custom visual warning, by opening the pbix file as an archive and editing the layout file.

 

Yu will find inside a json file describing the report structure. you need to remove the "resourcePackages" property which in my case was:

 

,"resourcePackages":[{"resourcePackage":{"name":"CardWithStatesBySQLBI1445315565700","items":[{"path":"icon.png","type":3},{"path":"CardWithStatesBySQLBI.js","type":0},{"path":"CardWithStatesBySQLBI.css","type":1}]}}]

 

And that's all... I hope this will be useful for the community.

How MS could possibe missed this as an IDE option?

 

Francisco.

ai3.fr

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lukaszp
Power BI Team
10 years ago

Thanks everyone for the great feedback on custom visuals.  We're really excited that we could share the feature with you early and get your feedback :).  You'll be happy to see us making progress on just about all of the items on the list.  The issues related to persisting formatting changes should already be fixed in production, so I would encourage you to give that another try. The next change will be to minimize how often you get the custom visuals warning - that should be in production very soon.  We are planning the work to remove custom visuals from reports and will make progress on that in the comming weeks/months depending on engineering requirements.  Would encourage you all to create ideas on the community for the other asks so we can keep you updated on what is being worked on and what has been released.  Thank you so much for your feedback and using this feature.

  • pat_energetics's avatar
    pat_energetics
    Advocate II
    10 years ago

    I love that the custom visual gallery now has a reference to version and upgrade date for each visual.

    What would really help is to be able to sort by update release date (rather than just name or first added date)

    Also,

    Is there any update on a way to remove custom visuals (not replace with update) in a report pbix file without digging into the code.

    It seems the May update is causing some grief with reports unless you ensure you have the latest suite of custom visuals from 4th June.