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Anonymous
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3 years ago

Powerbi custom visual user details.

Hello,
I am looking for a solution to get the user details of the person that is logged in to the power bi and using my custom visual.  I am trying to get the user information from this object "powerbi.session.userinfo" (took it from some old answers) and I am assuming that "powerbi" is imported from " powerbi-visuals-api"(version 

3.8.4) but session does not exist in powerbi object.
Also, I can see that we have DAX functions. Are they available to us in custom visuals through the "powerbi-visuals-api"?
please let me know if I am missing something or not understanding things properly. I am a newbie in powerbi.

I know this question is asked before but I cannot see any certain answers.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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  • dm-p's avatar
    dm-p
    Super User
    3 years ago

    Hi Anonymous,

    You're not able to get the user details through the power BI visuals APIs for privacy reasons.

    Visuals can only see the data that is supplied to them from the main window, so you could supply this via a measure that utilises the desired DAX function to your visual's dataset, and users of your visual would have to supply this themselves if it's a requirement.

    It could also be set as a visual property via conditional formatting (which may make more sense, as this would be a scalar value)... but would still need to be via a measure that can supply results of the DAX expression to the visual.

    Regards,

    Daniel