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powerbizb77
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2 years ago
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Issue with Filter by List by Devscope Visual

There is a helpful visual I use to allow users to paste in a list to be filtered on. The visual name is “Filter by List by Devscope”. This has always worked perfectly. It still works normally for me,...
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  • booyah2001's avatar
    booyah2001
    2 years ago

    I found a solution that is currently working for me (I'm on PBIRS January 2023 version).  This youtube video got me pointed in the right direction:

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqDDgPDhSE4

     

    If you have a PBIX file with a previously working version of the FilterByList visual, you can

    1. export a template of your dashboard (PBIT). 
    2. Then you open the PBIT template file in 7zip or Winzip and find the 'FilterByList507A2DBEC31244C8AAABDE9BA541F723' folder within Reports>Custom Visuals. 
    3. Extract the files within and repackage/zip them up as a new file ending in pbiviz (e.g. CustomVisual.pbiviz)
    4. Back in your PBIX file, in the Visualizations pane, select ... and then 'Import a visual from a file'
    5. Select your newly packaged pbiviz file and you should get a messaage 'Import successful'

    Between steps 3 and 4, I did something that I'm not sure is necessary.  I read in this thread about the need to modify all references of a 'guid' variable throughout the files in the FilterByList folder.  I might've done overkill on this, but I'll try to explain. 

    • The folder inside the PBIT file was named 'FilterByList507A2DBEC31244C8AAABDE9BA541F723' so I appended that name with 'XX' to become 'FilterByList507A2DBEC31244C8AAABDE9BA541F723XX.'
    • Within the folder is a file 'package.json' - it contained a 'guid' variable and also another reference to FilterByList507A2DBEC31244C8AAABDE9BA541F723.  In both cases I appended the values with 'XX' 
    • Within the folder there is another folder 'resources' and a json file called 'FilterByList507A2DBEC31244C8AAABDE9BA541F723' I appended the 'XX' to that filename as well.
    • I opened that file and did a find/replace on all references to '507A2DBEC31244C8AAABDE9BA541F723' in order to append them with 'XX' - there were probably 5-10 of them.
    • I saved all those changes to the files before extracting/zipping them.

     

    Anyway, good luck and you can PM me if you need any help.

AMarks's avatar
AMarks
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2 years ago

FYI I just heard back from the developer. Unfortunately, I feel this is a bad move. I asked them to rerelease the old version if possible for those who dont want to upgrade, or at a minimum increase the free level to 100 values.   Either way, looks like they are fixing the sync issue but this has brokem so many of our reports

 

Hi,
Thank you for contacting Devscope.
 
Regarding your issues:
Our technical team is working on fixing the issue with the sync filters between pages, and improving the sizing of the text box of the custom visual.
 
On the free version, you can always use it, but now it has a limit on the number of values you can use to filter - 20 values.
If you choose to purchase, you'll have no limitations and you can try the licensed version for the first month for free.
 
More information here: Filter by List - Plans + Pricing
 
Best regards,
Support Team

  • NorwaySasquatch's avatar
    NorwaySasquatch
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    2 years ago

    What a horrible decision by their management. No warning, just removing functionality and making a free product, one that was free for 2-3 years, paid out of nowhere. Would make sense if they charged from the start, but corporate funding is slow even for small amounts and this will break who knows how many teams and reports globally. This decision will forever make me distrust any product from DevScope.