Get name of visual a user clicked on with JS

JAnder — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:51:28 GMT

Is there a way to retrieve the name of a visual on a report from a user click. I know i can call `report.getPages()` and then on a page do `page.getVisuals()` but ideally i would like to just pick up the visual name from a click, maybe a custom context menu option that could then pass it as a parameter to a function

To clarify the Playground shows the below code, but it does not show you how to get the VisualContainer4 value. That code assumes you know the visual name....

try { const pages = await report.getPages(); // Retrieve the active page. let page = pages.filter(function (page) { return page.isActive })[0]; const visuals = await page.getVisuals(); // Retrieve the target visual. let visual = visuals.filter(function (visual) { return visual.name === "VisualContainer4"; })[0]; const filters = await visual.getFilters(); console.log(filters); } catch (errors) { console.log(errors); }

Re: Get name of visual a user clicked on with JS

JAnder — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:23:34 GMT

In case anyone looks at this in the future, you can get the visual name throught the event parameter.

there is a visualClicked event you can subscribe to which then provides the visual details including the name.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/overview/powerbi/handle-events#events-and-their-response-values

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