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popeadam
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Context menu for visualisation that doesn't need it....

I have a visualisation which has no great need for a context menu other than to be consistent with other Power BI custom visuals. The visual does not use the d3 library, and I can't find a sample to copy off which also doesn't. I'm wondering how I might be able to incorporate it easily?

The current code I'm using is as follows, and it gets all a bit messy in the 'private handleContextMenu' method:

 

import ISelectionManager = powerbi.extensibility.ISelectionManager;

export class Visual implements IVisual {
  private selectionManager: ISelectionManager;
}
constructor(options: VisualConstructorOptions) {
        this.handleContextMenu();
}
private handleContextMenu() {
        const mouseEvent: MouseEvent = addEventListener as MouseEvent;
        const eventTarget: EventTarget = mouseEvent.target;
        this.selectionManager.showContextMenu(Selection, { x: MouseEvent.clientX, y: MouseEvent.clientY });
          mouseEvent.preventDefault();
  }
Is anyone able to provide a method which would be able to enable the default context menu of 'Show as table/copy/chat in teams'?
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popeadam
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Managed to resolve this using the d3 library:

 

import {select} from "d3";

export class Visual implements IVisual {
  private selectionManager: ISelectionManager;

  constructor(options: VisualConstructorOptions) {
        this.selectionManager = options.host.createSelectionManager();
        this.handleContextMenu();
    }
    private handleContextMenu() {
        select(this.target).on("contextmenu", (event: MouseEvent) => {
            this.selectionManager.showContextMenu({}, {
                x: event.clientX,
                y: event.clientY,
            });
            event.preventDefault();
        });
    }


 

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