topic Re: Dialog Box for Custom Developed Visual? in Developer

Dialog Box for Custom Developed Visual?

WZorn — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 19:03:32 GMT

I want a custom dialog box to display when a user clicks on an element within a visual.

I found the following page:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/visuals/create-display-dialog-box#create-the-dialog-box-implementation-file

The page describes how to build a date picker dialog. In the new class, there are two import statements that I get an error on:

The first error I encountered was that powerbi was not defined, but I fixed that by including the "import powerbi from "powerbi-visuals-api" before the lines above.

It looks like DialogConstructor Options is not a named member, nor is DialogAction.

Have there been changes that stopped this from working? Has it been moved somewhere else?

Thanks,

William

Re: Dialog Box for Custom Developed Visual?

dm-p — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 22:31:21 GMT

Hi @WZorn,

I haven't personally used this functionality yet to assist in detail, but which version of powerbi-visuals-api is in your visual's package.json?

These interfaces are added in 3.7.0, so if this is older then you'll need to update this version, e.g. npm i powerbi-visuals-api@3.7.0 or @latest

Regards,

Daniel

Re: Dialog Box for Custom Developed Visual?

WZorn — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 12:06:12 GMT

Well, that's a step in the right direction. I can see what's happening now.

When I run npm i powerbi-visuals-api@latest it installs version 3.8.2, but as soon as I execute pbiviz start, it reverts to 2.6.0.

Re: Dialog Box for Custom Developed Visual?

WZorn — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 12:10:22 GMT

AH. The pbiviz.json still had the earlier version of the api referenced.

The line:

"apiVersion": "2.6.0"

needed to be changed to:

"apiVersion": "3.8.2",