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NUCRjs2
Regular Visitor

Mapbox Visual not displaying Satellite view

The satellite view in the Mapbox Visual is not loading.  I am getting the following error in the box: Failed to read the 'caches' propty from ;Window': Cache stroage is diabled because the context is sdanboxed and lacks the 'allow-same-origin' flag.

 

I have entered my token and the light map opens just fine and plots the data.  As soon as I select Satellite map, the error comes in.  I tried to do a custom map with using the satellite style and when I enter that custom URL, it has the same error.

 

I followed the steps in the online video trainging, named PowerBI.Tips - Tutorial - MapBox 101 at this url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w589b5_Z3o

 

Any assistance or troubleshooting advice would be greatly appreciated.  I changed tokens in my Mapbox account but had the same results. I also recevied the same results in PBI Desktop and PBI Service.

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santiagoluquez
Frequent Visitor

Hi guys, any update on this?

I get the error: "Failed to read the caches property from "window": cache storage is disabled because the context is sandboxed and lack the allow same origin flag."

jhsea
Regular Visitor

Did you manage to fix the issue? I am facing the same problem.

I have not found a solution.  I believe they are no longer supporting this any longer. 

Anonymous
Not applicable

Hi @NUCRjs2 ,

 

Try contacting Mapbox support to request a check on this feature.

GitHub - starschema/mapboxgl-powerbi: Mapbox Visual for Power BI - Do you have questions?

 

Best Regards,
Gao

Community Support Team

Mapbox support said the following:

"The MapBox PowerBI extension is no longer maintained. Earlier it was maintained by Starschema, but that company has been acquired by HCL Technologies.

 

I'd like to inform you, that since the acquisition we decided not to maintain the codebase anymore, and we are not able to push an update to the PowerBI marketplace.

 

We had a final release that fixed a few bugs, including the one you have but it can only be added as a custom visual.

 

The latest version is available in our public open source repository's releases tab https://github.com/starschema/mapboxgl-powerbi/releases

Steps on how to add the latest version into a report: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/visuals/import-visual#import-a-visual-file-from...

I updated to latest release and it worked (for now!). 

Hi, thanks for sharing this, is the report still working? what is your PBI version?

NUCRjs2
Regular Visitor

I wanted to test my Token to open both Light Map and Satellite Map.  I had positive url responses from:

Light Map-

https://api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/mapbox/light-v11.html?title=true&access_token=MY_TOKEN_HERE

 

Satellite Map- 

https://api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/mapbox/satellite-streets-v11/tiles/256/12/1200/1500@2x?access_token...

Anonymous
Not applicable

Hi @NUCRjs2 ,

 

Try adding the following two domains to the firewall whitelist, where Mapbox Visual will get map styles and so on.

vcgaomsft_0-1726452084615.png

GitHub - starschema/mapboxgl-powerbi: Mapbox Visual for Power BI - High performance, custom map visu...

 

Best Regards,
Gao

Community Support Team

 

If there is any post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution  to help the other members find it more quickly.
If I misunderstand your needs or you still have problems on it, please feel free to let us know. Thanks a lot!

How to get your questions answered quickly --  How to provide sample data in the Power BI Forum -- China Power BI User Group

Modifying this to the whitelist had no change.  I hope there are other options to consider.

Gao, thank you.  I will try this and report the outcome.

NUCRjs2
Regular Visitor

BTW, my version of PBI Desktop is: Version: 2.132.1053.0 64-bit (August 2024)

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