topic Re: Update Custom Visuals API in Developer

Update Custom Visuals API

Husain — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 13:36:53 GMT

I am trying to update my custom visuals API to latest 3.4.0.

I have run the pbiviz update 3.4.0 at the root of the visual but after update the pbiviz JSON still shows old API number.

How can I be sure that api was updated?

powerbi-visuals-api - npm (npmjs.com)

Re: Update Custom Visuals API

dm-p — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:24:27 GMT

Hi @Husain,

When the SDK and API were released as the same package (prior to v3), pbiviz update would handle he download/apply of the API automatically, but since they've been split into powerbi-visuals-tools (SDK) And powerbi-visuals-api (API) node packages, I think you would still need to install the correct version of powerbi-visuals-api from NPM into your project first, e.g.:

npm i powerbi-visuals-api@latest

If it doesn't work after that, I'd suggest manually changing your pbiviz.json to the new version number so you can start working with the new version, and raise an issue over on the SDK repo, so the team can provide an official response, or take a look at why this isn't working currently in the meantime. It might even be that the process has changed and they need to update the documentation.

Regards,

Daniel

Re: Update Custom Visuals API

Husain — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:10:24 GMT

HI @dm-p

Thanks.

I just noticed that the api number is updated in Package.json but not in pbiviz.json

Re: Update Custom Visuals API

Husain — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:15:44 GMT

@dm-p

I was trying to experiment with new conditional formatting feature
Conditional formatting - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

But I am getting this error which makes me think that latest api might not be installed

Re: Update Custom Visuals API

dm-p — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:20:35 GMT

Agreed - the latest published version on NPM is 3.4.0, but the GitHub repo is indicating there's a commit for version 3.5.0, which contains the conditional formatting changes... looks like this hasn't made it to NPM yet, which is a bit of a problem for people that have seen the release notes and want to try it for themselves

Re: Update Custom Visuals API

Husain — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:30:00 GMT

Thanks Sir @dm-p

pbiviz update 3.5.0 works 😁

Re: Update Custom Visuals API

dm-p — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:39:13 GMT

Awesome - thanks for confirming it worked! I'm hoping to look at it today, and this'll be a major time-saver 🙂