topic Re: Check out the source code based on an existing visual in Custom Visuals Development Discussion

Check out the source code based on an existing visual

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 18:00:22 GMT

Hi,

I would like to customize the third visual that appears in power BI Desktop but I can not find this source code.

For the moment i am working on Clustered Bar Chart by Akvelon https://github.com/akvelon/PowerBI-Clustered-Bar-Chart but I have problems with negative values when I'm connected to a tabular cube.

Why all source codes for visuals are not available? Is there any possibility of obtaining this source code to customize this visual?

Regards,

Fanny

Re: Check out the source code based on an existing visual

v-viig — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 06:26:24 GMT

Hi,

Source code of some visuals are not public due to license or some other issues.

What visual do you want to customize?

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

Re: Check out the source code based on an existing visual

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 11:14:24 GMT

Hi,

I was not sure, but it’s clear now, thanks!

We use power Bi embedded so we are mainly interested in the visual itself . We use very simple graphics like bar chart in fact .

We would like to add in each visual a feature that would allow the user to capture an image (SVG, PNG, ..) of the visual and save it in a chosen directory.

The problem is that the user never has the same filters to apply so bookmarks can not request this need.

At the end 2, 3 or 10 images recorded (according to the need it's depend) are called by another application

The ‘Print report’ feature is supported in Power BI Embedded but that's not enough because it exports the whole report and we would like just graph result
https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-JavaScript/wiki/Embedding---Basic-interactions#print-a-report.

To finish this discussion:

Do you have any advice for customized visuals?

Do not start from an existing code?

Do you think that a workaround should be found to save an SVG visual?

Thanks,

Fanny

Re: Check out the source code based on an existing visual

v-viig — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 06:41:06 GMT

Yes can customize some custom visuals because they are open sourced but core vsiuals are private.

That means it's really difficult to customize components.

I think you can find visual svgs by class and id names. So, it might help to render an element into png somehow.

Not sure if it's feasible to be implemented.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com