Data Color issue - custom visual barChart

[ferryv]

I copied the source from the github repo and used pbiviz package to  package the file and import the visual in powerbi desktop with the aim to see if it all works.

owever, when opening the Data Colors tab, only the color on the last column can be updated. Has anyone seen this before or reported this? 

[Anonymous]

Hi  @ferryv,

Thanks for reaching out to us with your problem. Based on your description, it seems that you are encountering a problem where only the last column's color can be updated in the Data Colors tab for a custom visual that you imported from a GitHub repository. You can refer the following official documentation to build a bar chart.

Build a bar chart visual in Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

In addition, you can refer the following link to debug the problem to make troubleshooting.

How to debug Power BI custom visuals - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

Best Regards

[ferryv · Accepted solution]

Thanks. Was trying to get the barChart github files to work properly to understand what happened.

Managed to resolve it by:

- rerunning: npm i -g powerbi-visuals-tools@latest and npm i d3@latest --save to get the latest libraries

- setting up a new project using pbiviz new barChart

- copying the files from the github repo (https://github.com/microsoft/PowerBI-visuals-sampleBarChart) in the new barChart folder (incl replacing existing ones)

- change the version in pbiviz.json from  "version": "4.0.0" to  "version": "4.0.0.0" as an error occurred (version should be in 4 parts) with the latest libraries

- installed Microsoft Power BI visuals TooltipUtils (as this was missing) via npm i powerbi-visuals-utils-tooltiputils

When packaging the file via pbiviz package and importing it in PowerBI Desktop, it worked fine.