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Anonymous
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6 years ago
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Custom Visual Field Formating

I'm working in a custom visual and i need to implement Field Formatting. I want to store different settings for every metric i have inserted in the visual like the way it is implemented in matrix...
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dm-p
Super User
6 years ago

Hi Anonymous,

If I understand correctly, you're looking to do something like in this thread? Last we heard, this is not supported for custom visuals and only works in the core visuals, which is a shame, as I really, really want to be able to do it myself.

An alternative is to create a formatting field for each measure in the properties pane, which is not as elegant but gets the job done. The tutorial to do something similar is linked in that thread also. I have a couple of examples in a visual I produce that uses the categorical dataViewMapping (which isn't formatting but generates a text field for each category) which I can provide if this would be useful to you? You would use these in a similar way to take a format string and then use TS code to apply the formatting specified in the field. 

Regards,

Daniel

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

can you provide me the code that you mention?

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      6 years ago

      in the dropdown which i have in the settings in order to select the metric i do not see the names 

      of the metrics although i pass them correctly. Any ideas?

       

       

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

        Hi,

         

        I should see how you set it inside capabilities.json to figure out what is wrong.

        I can only suggest that you didn't set "displayName" property for an item as on below picture.

         

         

        Kind Regards,

         

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