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Power BI Charticulator Visual gone
Hi all,
today my custom visual made with Charticulator is gone - just blank are where the visual was placed, all fields gone, also charticulator icon is no longer under visuals on the right side panel.
It is pretty important daily report in the company so I would appreciate any comment or solution.
Thanks in advance.
Hi All,
After much trial and error, I have found a way to get the old MS Charticulator visual definitions working with the new Community versions.
Please be aware that there are 2 Community Versions:
- One is MS Certified – Charticulator Visual Community (View)
- One is *NOT* MS Certified - Charticulator Visual Community (Editor)
It seems that to be able to change the existing Viz from the old MS Charticulator to either of the new Community versions, you need to follow these steps:
- Make sure that you have the Options and settings -> Options -> Preview features -> on-object interaction Checked.
- Open your broken pbix that has the MS Charticulator visual.
- Download the “Charticulator Visual Community (View)” community version of Charticulator.
- Click on the old Charticulator visual that is on your workspace
- Click the On-Object “Add Data and build your visual” icon
- You will see “Suggest a visual” drop-down.
- Toggle “Arrange data for me” from off to on.
- Click the “Charticulator Visual Community (View)” Visual in the drop-down box
- Fix the field assignments and click the confirm button
This is far from ideal but I have found this works for each of my reports so far.
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Hi All,
After much trial and error, I have found a way to get the old MS Charticulator visual definitions working with the new Community versions.
Please be aware that there are 2 Community Versions:
- One is MS Certified – Charticulator Visual Community (View)
- One is *NOT* MS Certified - Charticulator Visual Community (Editor)
It seems that to be able to change the existing Viz from the old MS Charticulator to either of the new Community versions, you need to follow these steps:
- Make sure that you have the Options and settings -> Options -> Preview features -> on-object interaction Checked.
- Open your broken pbix that has the MS Charticulator visual.
- Download the “Charticulator Visual Community (View)” community version of Charticulator.
- Click on the old Charticulator visual that is on your workspace
- Click the On-Object “Add Data and build your visual” icon
- You will see “Suggest a visual” drop-down.
- Toggle “Arrange data for me” from off to on.
- Click the “Charticulator Visual Community (View)” Visual in the drop-down box
- Fix the field assignments and click the confirm button
This is far from ideal but I have found this works for each of my reports so far.
Yes, I agree, it works but it is not ideal.
Hi,
procedure mentioned above returned the visual, but unfortunately sorting is not working right in the new charticulator.
After choosing different item from slicer, sort of the watefall chart breaks - I have Comparison actuality slicer which enables Actual results comparison in the waterfall with Budget and Last Year. Choosing different comparison puts Budget column in front of the category which shows effect.
Regards
May I please also ask which PBI version are you using?
My visal doesn't show the options besides it.
I guess you skipped the first step:
- Make sure that you have the Options and settings -> Options -> Preview features -> on-object interaction Checked.
you cannot change the viz without using the Preview Feature "on-object Interaction".
Hi, I have exactl;y the same issue; who thought this was the correct thing to do; just remove a visual and leave everyone to figure it out.
This is completely NUTS. Come on Microsoft; you can do much better than this.
Now, there is a new Coimmunity version but I guess that is different and that is why we get blank visuals. What we all need is for PBI to recognise that the old Charticulator is the same as the Communiuty version. As We have premium Support; I will escalate to MS.
BR
Nigel
This is irresponsible act from Microsoft. I really thought using Custom visuals with Microsoft label on it (Microsoft Charticulator) was really safe and stable. Who would have thought that this kind of issue arise, make thing worse, no proper documentation on fallback plan. Imagine some PowerBI developer using 100s visual of Charticulator. Crazy
Thank you very much for keeping us posted on this Nigel!
You can make the community charticulator work on the PBI Desktop version, but it doesn't work on the Power BI service. You can actually make it work in the PBI Service by downloading the editor or the view version and editing the dashboard in a Workspace, but it won't let you save your report, because charticulator is not a supported visual...
Hello, it just happened to me 30 minutes ago :c I hope I can find a solution
We ran into same problem today. There's a new Charticulator community version available, but how to replace it? Found a guy on Reddit who said he replaced the reportID in the file with the new community visual to fix it, but no clue how to do that. Help !!!!
Hello I already solved it give in organize the data for me and then switch to the charticulator editor new
Can you explain in more detail how you solved the missing Charticulator ?
Of course,
1.- click on your blank box
2.- CLICK ON "ORGANIZE THE DATA FOR ME" (ORGANIZA LOS DATOS POR MI)
THEN CHOOSE THE NEW CHARTICULATOR EDITOR
Hi, Marac0105
Thanks for everyone's reply. You can contact the author of this visual object for support.
GitHub - zBritva/charticulator-visual-communityBest Regards,
Yang
Community Support TeamIf 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
Hi, after the original Charticulator visual was retired, Ilfat Galiev took over the project and has been developing it for some time.
He recently published a blog post on BIBB about the new Charticulator and the two Power BI visuals.
Charticulator Visual Community: A New Chapter in Custom Visual Design
