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Anonymous
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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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SDP
Advocate II
10 years ago

The whole custom visualization feature was rushed out. Here are the problems with custom visualizations:

 

  • Anytime you open a report in Power BI Desktop or online, you will receive the custom visualization error.
  • Once you add them to a report, there is no way to remove them (see point one for why this sucks)
  • Any formatting you apply to a custom visualization is dropped when you publish the report. So colors, data markers for the bullet chart, etc. 

Custom visualizations are not ready for production use.

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jjblanco
Advocate II
10 years ago

I'm afraid I must agree, this all seemed rushed out the door... even if wonderfully powerful, there are all the previously mentioned issues and most annoying is that once you have "played" with a custom visual in ANY report on your pbix file or workspace in PowerBI.com, then there is no way to get rid of the warning (even when the visuals, the reports that had them, EVERYTHING has been removed!).

 

So here's my 2 cents in the hope that MS fixes this soon.