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Anonymous
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Error when importing 'powerbi-visuals-utils-tooltiputils'

To start with, I was attempting to add report page tooltips to my visuals and looking into 'powerbi-visuals-utils-tooltiputils', which was introduced in this tutorial (https://github.com/microsoft/powerbi-visuals-utils-tooltiputils/blob/master/docs/api/tooltipservice....). however, in VS Code I got the error that namespace 'powerbi.extensibility' has no exported member 'utils'. 

 

Can someone point me in the right direction?

 

This is the error I got:

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My package.json

 

{
  "name": "visual",
  "scripts": {
    "pbiviz": "pbiviz",
    "start": "pbiviz start",
    "package": "pbiviz package",
    "lint": "tslint -r \"node_modules/tslint-microsoft-contrib\"  \"+(src|test)/**/*.ts\""
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "@babel/polyfill": "^7.4.4",
    "@babel/runtime": "^7.4.5",
    "@babel/runtime-corejs2": "^7.4.5",
    "@types/d3": "5.5.0",
    "core-js": "^2.6.8",
    "d3": "5.5.0",
    "powerbi-models": "^1.2.0",
    "powerbi-visuals-api": "~2.6.0",
    "powerbi-visuals-tools": "^2.5.0",
    "powerbi-visuals-utils-dataviewutils": "^2.2.0",
    "powerbi-visuals-utils-interactivityutils": "^4.4.0",
    "powerbi-visuals-utils-tooltiputils": "^1.0.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "ts-loader": "5.2.2",
    "typescript": "3.0.1"
  }
}

My pbivi.json

 

{
    "visual": {
        "name": "newVisual",
        "displayName": "newVisual",
        "guid": "newVisual13C8D3E140884625B63E87B293DB8A16",
        "visualClassName": "Visual",
        "version": "1.0.0",
        "description": "",
        "supportUrl": "",
        "gitHubUrl": ""
    },
    "apiVersion": "2.6.0",
    "author": {
        "name": "",
        "email": ""
    },
    "assets": {
        "icon": "assets/icon.png"
    },
    "externalJS": [
        "node_modules/d3/d3.min.js",
        "node_modules/powerbi-visuals-utils-tooltiputils/lib/index.js"
    ],
    "style": "style/visual.less",
    "capabilities": "capabilities.json",
    "dependencies": null,
    "stringResources": []
}

My tsconfig.json

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "allowJs": false,
        "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
        "experimentalDecorators": true,
        "target": "es6",
        "sourceMap": true,
        "outDir": "./.tmp/build/",
        "moduleResolution": "node",
        "declaration": true,
        "lib": [
            "es2015",
            "dom"
        ]
    },
    "files": [
        "src/visual.ts",
        "node_modules/powerbi-visuals-utils-tooltiputils/lib/index.d.ts",
        "node_modules/powerbi-visuals-api/index.d.ts"
    ]
}

Thank you

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dm-p
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Hi @Anonymous,
If you're using the latest tooling, the doc is out of date unfortunately. Its answered here though: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Custom-Visuals-Development/Tooltips-custom-visuals/m-p/731308/highl...
Hopefully this helps you out,
Daniel




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dm-p
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Hi @Anonymous,
If you're using the latest tooling, the doc is out of date unfortunately. Its answered here though: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Custom-Visuals-Development/Tooltips-custom-visuals/m-p/731308/highl...
Hopefully this helps you out,
Daniel




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Thanks @dm-p 

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