Confused about objects...

callum — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 11:00:48 GMT

Hello,

I'll try to explain my situation as clearly as possible. I'm building a visual to simulate the functionality of ThoughtWorks' Tech Radar. I therefore have four classes; Radar, Sector, Point and Ring. Radar is the "main" class for which is an instance is returned from my visualTransform method. And then a radar has a property called sectors, which is an array of Sector instances. Each Sector then contains many Points (which then has a ring!), although this last bit doesn't really matter for the question.

Anyway, you can see how each sector has a different colour. I'd like the user to be able to choose these colours. I want to store it in a property of a Sector called colours, i.e. when plotting the visual I would use sector.colour.

I took a leaf out of the sample bar chart guide and added this to my capabilities.json:

  "objects": {
    "colourSelector": {
      "displayName": "Sector colours",
      "properties": {
        "fill": {
          "displayName": "Colour",
          "type": {
            "fill": {
              "solid": {
                "color": true
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }

But I'm not sure how to proceed further. I changed my enumerateObjectInstances to:

public enumerateObjectInstances(options: EnumerateVisualObjectInstancesOptions): VisualObjectInstance[] | VisualObjectInstanceEnumerationObject {
    let objectEnumeration = [];

    switch (options.objectName) {
        case "colourSelector":
            this.radar.sectors.forEach(function (sector) {
                objectEnumeration.push({
                    objectName: options.objectName,
                    displayName: sector.name,
                    properties: {
                        fill: {
                            solid: {
                                color: sector.colour
                            }
                        }
                    },
                    selector: sector
                });
            });
            break;
    }

    return objectEnumeration;
}

But I clearly need to do something more. Specifically in the "selector" bit; I don't think passing in an actual Sector instance is correct, but the guide seems to just glance over what should be passed in without giving much detail. (For clarity: each sector is given a default colour, hence why sector.colour is used here)

With this, I do get the following in the Format pane:

However I don't know how I can bind these values to sector.colour. Where do they go?

I hope this makes sense! Thanks in advance.

Re: Confused about objects...

v-chuncz-msft — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 10:32:43 GMT

callum,

You may check function getCategoricalObjectValue.

https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-visuals/blob/f76ae919d9c9df83318e62e2bd7b24d185e8a32e/Tutorial/DataBoundObjects.md

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