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BTW, all technical details that I think would be helpful are below, system, software versions, etc.
Anyway, I followed a tutorial on creating a custom viz on my mac. It sucessfully rendered in power bi (the website)
After this I ran pbiviz package. And it appeared to work ok. It created the pbiviz with the circleCard.pbiviz inside the dist folder.
But when I went to my test machine, which is Parallels version of Windows and tried to import into Power Bi Desktop I got two key messages.
1. Debug Assert Failed: The API Version 2.1.0 is Invalid
2. You version of Power BI Desktop does not support custom visuals.
What did I try so far?
1. In the pbiviz json file I set it to 2.1.1, which is the version of pbiviz that I'm using.
$ pbiviz package
info Building visual...
error VALIDATION Invalid API Version v2.1.1
Anybody have any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks!
Code
https://github.com/markarios/circleCard
Development Computer
Mac Os Sierra 10.12.6
pbiviz --version 2.1.1
Portal Used For Previewing Custom App
app.powerbi.com
Version 13.0.6980.207
Test Computer
Windows 8.1 Enterprise
Power BI Version: 2.61.5192.641 64-bit (August 2018)
API 1.11.0 should work fine with August release of Power BI Desktop.
Ignat Vilesov,
Software Engineer
Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals
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