topic Re: Change R visual to Custom visual with Tooltip in Custom Visuals Development Discussion

Change R visual to Custom visual with Tooltip

Baskar — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 12:06:00 GMT

Thanks Advanced !!!

Hi,

I have tried to create R visual in power BI and i successfully complete that visual as well.

Now the challange is i have change the R visual as Custom visual. because i need tooltip on my visual.

Am totally blank on this, how can i acheive this.

Your help is priceless.

Re: Change R visual to Custom visual with Tooltip

v-viig — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 08:21:12 GMT

Hello @Baskar

We'll include our R-script developer to assist with this feature.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

Re: Change R visual to Custom visual with Tooltip

Baskar — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 03:20:13 GMT

@v-viig let me know when i will get touch with R-Developer.

Re: Change R visual to Custom visual with Tooltip

v-viig — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 08:32:28 GMT

Hello @Baskar

Our developer will investigate the posibility to use tooltips with R.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

Re: Change R visual to Custom visual with Tooltip

v-viig — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 07:13:21 GMT

To use tooltips API, the developer will need to:

Transition from standard R-script visual to HTML R Custom visual, that may be very easy or very complicated, depending on packages used.
Add to every relevant entity in the R HTML widget an “on-hover” behavior invoking tool-tips API (this can and should be done using plotly’s commands in the R script)
Connect the specific details to be shown in the tooltip to the call in “b.” – this may be difficult for certain visualizations.

Pros:

Same look and feel as other PBI visuals
Can display tooltips outside of visual’s iframe boundaries.

Cons:

Requires some TS coding
Depending on specific implementation, may be difficult to implement.

To use plotly’s built-in tool tips, the developer will still need step “1.” above (static images won’t generate tooltips, he must generate a functioning HTML widget…)

Pros:

Only R coding, (aside from transition to R HTML widget)
Data automatically available for tooltip.

Cons:

Tooltips limited to visual’s plot R area.
Look and feel inconsistent with PBI’s

You might also take a look at https://github.com/Microsoft/powerbi-visuals-funnel as an example.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

Re: Change R visual to Custom visual with Tooltip

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 23:48:18 GMT

I am facing the same problem. Did you find a way to make tool tip work in R visual ?

Re: Change R visual to Custom visual with Tooltip

v-viig — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 08:02:32 GMT

Have you tried the solution posted above?

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com