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miguelsalles
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Bar Chart Show Axis

Hi,

 

I am new, i made a simple bar chart that the user can put a category and a measure. Now I would like to show the Axis information, can anyone help?

 

This is where I got by myself:

capabilities.json
{
    "dataRoles": [
        {
            "displayName": "Category Data",
            "name": "category",
            "kind": "Grouping"
        },
        {
            "displayName": "Measure Data",
            "name": "measure",
            "kind": "Measure"
        }
    ],
    "objects": {
        
        "newbar": {
            "displayName": "New Bar",
            "properties": {
                "barColor": {
                    "displayName": "Color",
                    "description": "The fill color of the new bar.",
                    "type": {
                        "fill": {
                            "solid": {
                                "color": true
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }    
    },
    "dataViewMappings": [
        {        
            "conditions": [
                {
                    "category": {
                        "max": 1
                    },
                    "measure": {
                        "max": 1
                    }
                }
            ],
            "categorical": {
                "categories": {
                    "for": {
                        "in": "category"
                    },
                    "dataReductionAlgorithm": {
                        "top": {}
                    }
                },
                "values": {
                    "select": [
                        {
                            "bind": {
                                "to": "measure"
                            }
                        }
                    ]
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}


 

settings.ts
module powerbi.extensibility.visual {
    "use strict";
    import DataViewObjectsParser = powerbi.extensibility.utils.dataview.DataViewObjectsParser;

    export class barSettings {
      public barColor: string = "black";
     }
     export class VisualSettings extends DataViewObjectsParser {
      public newbar: barSettings = new barSettings();
     }
     
visual.ts
module powerbi.extensibility.visual {

    interface BarChartViewModel {
        dataPoints: BarChartDataPoint[];
        dataMax: number;
    };

    interface BarChartDataPoint {
        value: number;
        category: string;

    };

    function visualTransform(options: VisualUpdateOptions, host: IVisualHost): BarChartViewModel {
        let dataViews = options.dataViews;
        let viewModel: BarChartViewModel = {
            dataPoints: [],
            dataMax: 0
        };
        if (!dataViews
            || !dataViews[0]
            || !dataViews[0].categorical
            || !dataViews[0].categorical.categories
            || !dataViews[0].categorical.categories[0].source
            || !dataViews[0].categorical.values)
            return viewModel;
        let categorical = dataViews[0].categorical;
        let category = categorical.categories[0];
        let dataValue = categorical.values[0];
        let barChartDataPoints: BarChartDataPoint[] = [];
        let dataMax: number;

        let colorPalette: IColorPalette = host.colorPalette;

        for (let i = 0, len = Math.max(category.values.length, dataValue.values.length); i < len; i++) {
            barChartDataPoints.push({
                category: <string>category.values[i],
                value: <number>dataValue.values[i]
                
            });
        }
        dataMax = <number>dataValue.maxLocal;
        return {
            dataPoints: barChartDataPoints,
            dataMax: dataMax
        };
    }
    export class Visual implements IVisual {

        private svg: d3.Selection<SVGElement>;
        private host: IVisualHost;
        private barChartContainer: d3.Selection<SVGElement>;
        private barContainer: d3.Selection<SVGElement>;
        private bars: d3.Selection<SVGElement>;
        private visualSettings: VisualSettings;
        static Config = {
            xScalePadding: 0.1,
        };


        constructor(options: VisualConstructorOptions) {
            console.log('Visual constructor', options);

            this.host = options.host;
            let svg = this.svg = d3.select(options.element)
                .append('svg')
                .classed('barChart', true);
            this.barContainer = svg.append('g')
                .classed('barContainer', true);
        }
   

        public enumerateObjectInstances(options: EnumerateVisualObjectInstancesOptions): VisualObjectInstanceEnumeration {
            const settings: VisualSettings = this.visualSettings || 
           VisualSettings.getDefault() as VisualSettings;
            return VisualSettings.enumerateObjectInstances(settings, options);
           }
           
           
        public update(options: VisualUpdateOptions) {

            let viewModel: BarChartViewModel = visualTransform(options, this.host);
            let dataView: DataView = options.dataViews[0]
            this.visualSettings = VisualSettings.parse<VisualSettings>(dataView);

            let width = options.viewport.width;
            let height = options.viewport.height;
            this.svg.attr({
                width: width,
                height: height
            });
            let yScale = d3.scale.linear()
                .domain([0, viewModel.dataMax])
                .range([height, 0]);
            let xScale = d3.scale.ordinal()
                .domain(viewModel.dataPoints.map(d => d.category))
                .rangeRoundBands([0, width], Visual.Config.xScalePadding);
            let bars = this.barContainer.selectAll('.bar').data(viewModel.dataPoints);
            bars.enter()
                .append('rect')
                .classed('bar', true);
            bars.attr({
                width: xScale.rangeBand(),
                height: d => height - yScale(d.value),
                y: d => yScale(d.value),
                x: d => xScale(d.category),
                fill: d => this.visualSettings.newbar.barColor
                //d.color
            });
            bars.exit()
                .remove();
        }

        public destroy(): void {
            //TODO: Perform any cleanup tasks here
            //Perform any cleanup tasks here
        }
    }
} 
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v-chuncz-msft
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@miguelsalles,

 

See Sample Bar Chart Repo as an example.

Community Support Team _ Sam Zha
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Hi,

 

It seems that this tutorial is deprecated and it is not needed to use the object enumeration anymore, I am trying to adequate the tutorial without it.

 

Will post solution here whenever I get it right.

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