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chalupabatman
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10 years ago
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Help With Developer Tools

I followed the tutorial here, but when I get to the point of Select the Developer Visual in the Visualizations pane I get an error that pops up inside the visual: Can't contact visual server Pl...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I think I see what is going on.

     

    there are currently 2 experiences.  

     

    1 is being deprecated and is PURELY a web thing.  If you go up to Settings | Dev Tools, you directly get to a code editing window, and "that's it".  (great experience for low barrier to entry).

     

    The other requires a bunch of locally installed bits, start here: https://github.com/microsoft/powerbi-visuals-docs

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Anonymous
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10 years ago

That error just sounds like you need to "cd" into your new visual directory before running "pbiviz start".

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    chalupabatman
    Regular Visitor
    10 years ago

    Anonymous --> Where would my directory be?  I am using the web version.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      10 years ago

      I think I see what is going on.

       

      there are currently 2 experiences.  

       

      1 is being deprecated and is PURELY a web thing.  If you go up to Settings | Dev Tools, you directly get to a code editing window, and "that's it".  (great experience for low barrier to entry).

       

      The other requires a bunch of locally installed bits, start here: https://github.com/microsoft/powerbi-visuals-docs