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Single visual embedding - getting names of pages and visuals?
As shown in:
https://microsoft.github.io/PowerBI-JavaScript/demo/v2-demo/index.html#
we have to provide pageName and visualName. These are strings that don't seem to be discoverable from the report designer. If I design a report with pages and visuals on those pages, how do I discover the strings I need to use to display one visual?
The names don't seem to be displayed or modifiable anywhere. If I could put one visual per page and then use the page name to show the right visual, that would work. But it turns out that pages have two names: the name and the displayName. The name is used in embedding but is apparently not displayed/editable anywhere. The displayName can be edited in the report designer, but is not the right thing to use in embedding.
I know I can get them at the client by embedding the report, waiting for the loaded event, calling getPages on the report and then getVisuals on each page. But that suggests I would need to create a hidden element to embed the report into, go through all those steps, so I could search for the right page (by its display name?) and take its first visual.
I guess I'm missing something obvious.
6 Replies
- gbrueckl
Most Valuable Professional
did you ever solve this?
I am currently running into the very same issue.
Using the name for the visual returned by getVisuals() does not seem to work
GwhizHelper I
You have to use Power BI service and get the name from the url, it will show as "ReportSectionff84e9ab2bc3f5fb5f74"
Then you just plop that into the embeded URL: &pageName=ReportSectionff84e9ab2bc3f5fb5f74 and whalla, they seemed to have changed to a new URL scheme without telling us leaving us clueless when trying to embed only a certain page
v-micsh-msftMicrosoft Employee
If here you prefer to embed the Visual, then the report and report page for the visual are required.
Or you may consider to embed the tile in a dashboard:
Regards,
Michael
- I'm guessing no-one has worked out an easy way yo do this yet?
The fact that the powerbi-client library allows specifying a 'default page' implies that these names would be discoverable somehow. https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-JavaScript/wiki/Embed-Configuration-Details#options
Has anybody figured this out yet? The only way I have found to get the page 'name' is by calling 'report.getPages()', at which point there's no point in being able to specify a default page when embedding.
