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ziyi
Regular Visitor
7 years ago
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Cannot import my own custom visual

Hello,   I created a custom visual with PowerBI Visuals Tools version 2.3.0. It works fine at my local environment. So I import it to PowerBI Online, PowerBI shows a error message.   And ...
  • v-evelk's avatar
    v-evelk
    7 years ago

    The reason was found.

    Your package has size of more than 3Mb but PowerBI Service alow to import packages of size no more than 2Mb.

     

    In than case you should unpack a built package by any archivator and pack manually as zip file and then change the extension to PIVIZ. It must help to reduce the package size.

     

    Also you can use new tools that let to use JS modules and import 3rd party libraries as modules without including external links to pbiviz.json. It must help to reduce a package size and simplify work with outer libraries.

    Details you can find by the following link (https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Custom-Visuals-Community-Blog/New-Beta-version-of-powerbi-visual-tools-v3/ba-p/545287)

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v-evelk
Microsoft Employee
7 years ago

I tried to build it but it requires some files from "vendor" folder.

Is it possible to provide them?

 

Evgenii Elkin,
Software Engineer
Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals
[email protected]

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    v-evelk
    Microsoft Employee
    7 years ago

    Thanks, I have downloaded them.

     

    Evgenii Elkin,
    Software Engineer
    Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals
    [email protected]

    • v-evelk's avatar
      v-evelk
      Microsoft Employee
      7 years ago

      The reason was found.

      Your package has size of more than 3Mb but PowerBI Service alow to import packages of size no more than 2Mb.

       

      In than case you should unpack a built package by any archivator and pack manually as zip file and then change the extension to PIVIZ. It must help to reduce the package size.

       

      Also you can use new tools that let to use JS modules and import 3rd party libraries as modules without including external links to pbiviz.json. It must help to reduce a package size and simplify work with outer libraries.

      Details you can find by the following link (https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Custom-Visuals-Community-Blog/New-Beta-version-of-powerbi-visual-tools-v3/ba-p/545287)

      • ziyi's avatar
        ziyi
        Regular Visitor
        7 years ago

        Thank you! You saved me.

         

        I did unzip pbiviz and re-zip them.

        unzip exGrid.pbiviz
zip -9 -r exGrid.zip package.json resources
mv exGrid.zip exGrid.rezip.pbiviz

         

        I have imported my pbiviz successfully.