Access other visuals/charts from our own custom visual in Dashboard

[Anonymous]

Hi There,

I am doing some R&D in PowerBI Custom visuals. For that, I want to know the is there any API or to access the data source (underlying Data) of the Dashboard?

Any possibility to get other visuals/charts details and their datasets through API or from PowerBI Desktop application

IVisual object?

Simply I want to get the data source which is used in Dashboard and other chart details through my custom visual.

Thanks in Advance.

[v-viig · Accepted solution]

Custom Visuals can get data from a data source by using table data mapping in the capabilities.json.
Unfortunately, data will be aggregated and all of data duplicates will be summarized.

To export data we would recommend to use Export to CSV feature of Power BI.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

[Anonymous]

Thanks.

Then any suggestion or solution for my #2 question,

Any possibility to get other visuals/charts details and their datasets through API or from PowerBI Desktop application

IVisual object?

[v-viig]

Power BI Custom Visuals API does not allow to get details other visuals.

Could you please describe why it's required?

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

[Anonymous]

Sure Ignat.

In my research, there is a simple use case to access the dataset of other visuals/charts from the dashboard and display that datasets to users in table format. 

Just I am checking the possibilities of PowerBI custom visuals and their respective APIs.

Thanks.

[v-viig]

Such case is not supported as visuals are isolated from each other.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

[Anonymous]

Yes, Ignat.

Thanks for your reply.