Datamodel formatting is not working on Visual Custom

[Anonymous]

Hi Folks 

I am new to the Developer part and I am creating a custom Barchart. My problem is if I want to format my data (e.g rounding) this is not transfered to the visual. 

Is there a special function for this in Typescript, or should this happen automatically? I am displaying all data on an SVG and I am working with D3.

Thanks in advance for your help

Hekuran

[dm-p]

Hi @Anonymousn,

You need to handle formatting yourself.

The formatting information from the data model (if set) is available in a column's or measure's format property in the dataView's metadata array.

To apply formatting you can use Formatting Utils to create a valueFormatter and pass in the metatdata from your desired column or measure and then use this result in your visual.

Regards,

Daniel

[lbendlin]

Interesting. This documentation doesn't specifically talk about number format passthrough.  Will have to look at it some more.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/visuals/custom-visual-develop-tutorial-format-op...