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Text Search Deprecated - what is its replacement?
All ( Anonymous pmurz mlucking motoray ),
MS support just contacted me and confirmed that the Text Filter visual will NOT be deprecated in response to community requests. The deprecation warning will go away within a week.
EDIT: It looks like they have pulled it from AppSource and the warning has returned. I have reopened my case and reached out to the product team for an update.
So I'm wondering what we should do if--like us--you have a lot of reports published that use this visual? There isn't an alternative that provides the same functionality...at least none that I'm aware of. Just yesterday I was out trying the various alternatives in App Source and they don't filter the same way--at least not the free visuals.
Hi motoray
My biggest concern is that there is no MICROSOFT response to any of this in this forum. How do we promote this concern to the attention of someone in Power BI Product Management at Microsoft. They clearly have accountability, but I do not know how to do that.
Does anyone in this community/forum know how to communicate with MS Power BI team?
Thank you.
Hi pmurz ,
My last reply was from the Microsoft product group, and Microsoft has officially added a reminder to the desktop.
Best Regards,
Stephen Tao
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Stephen,
Appreciate the response, however it is not really helpful. Can you provide details about what happens to existing published reports that contain this visual once it is officially deprecated? Is there a way to query the service to find all reports using this visual if it does need to be replaced?
These are the questions and concerns shared by most of the users in this thread.
Just got off the phone with support. They confirm that the visual will be deprecated, but the timeline for the official deprecation is unknown. Once this occurs, the reports that use it will continue to load, but the visual will show an error, will not load any data, and will have to be replaced. Current recommendation is to reconfigure reports to use the slicer visual or an alternative from AppSource, even though they acknowledge that there are no visuals with feature parity.
Further, they confirmed there is no way to identify all the reports that have been published containing this visual. Their recommendation is to manually navigate to each report, open it, go into edit mode, then confirm the visuals it is using and replace/reconfigure as needed.