What visualization am I using?

[mglasser]

Is there a way to know what visualization is being used for a specific viz in my report?  Suppose I am opening up someone else's report and see a viz I like.  How do I know what the viz is?  It seems like it highlights the viz from the Visualizations selection pane with a box around it, but in my case there is nothing highlighted.  I can deploy the report to my server and it works, but how it is working is not my question (at the moment).  How do I find out the name of the visualization that created what I can see on the report?  Is there a properties or About or any text I can search within the PBIX file (after I extract it)?

Thanks,

Mike

[Tahreem24]

@mglasser ,

Could you please share the viz screen shot? May be it's custom visual. Also you can check the extra custom visuals like below screen shot.

[mglasser]

Here is a screenshot of the viz when it is selected.  I see no custom visualizations as shown in your picture, nor do I see any delivered viz highlighted.  Maybe someone recognizes the options in the Fields well, particularly the "color saturation" option.  It would be nice to know this viz, but my question is more general for identifying any visualization that I see in a PBI file.

[v-jayw-msft]

Hi @mglasser ,

I think it's Shape Map. It's quite strange that you don't have Shape Map in your Visualizations pane.

What's your Desktop version? Try update it to latest version and see if this fixed.

Best Regards,

Jay

Community Support Team _ Jay Wang

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[mglasser]

It seems from the responses there is no way to know the visualization used by only looking in the text available in the PBIX file.  And in my case where it is not highlighting the viz in the panel, there is no way to know the name of a visualization unless someone else can recognize it's available properties.  This seems so odd, since the desktop seems to know what viz it is so it can highlight the right visualization.  But I guess sometimes the solution is "no, there is no solution."  Thanks everyone for the help.

[Tahreem24]

It looks peculiar. I mean I haven't seen this before.

[amitchandak]

@mglasser , I am not sure I got it. But personalize visual on April 2020 can help in power bi service

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-april-2020-feature-summary/#_Personalize_v...

[mglasser]

That is a nice new feature, and a bit scary for my users to use that, but that does not help to tell me what visualization was used for a specific viz on an existing report.  Thanks.