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bfialkoff
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7 years ago
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Inherit from other visuals?

I want to make a small change to an existing visual but I dont want to have to worry about maintainence. I know that I can place the link to the git repo in my package.json. Is it then possible to in...
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    v-viig
    7 years ago
    import ChicletSlicer  = powerbi.extensibility.visual.ChicletSlicer;

    Have you tried such an import?

     

    Ignat Vilesov,

    Software Engineer

     

    Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

    [email protected]

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bfialkoff
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7 years ago

Accepted too soon. The import worked but the viusal doesn't:

 

import ChicletSlicer  = powerbi.extensibility.visual.ChicletSlicer;

    export class myVisual extends ChicletSlicer {
            constructor(options){
            super(options)
        }

        public update(options) {
            super.update(options)
        }

    }

for a moment it compiled but it showed me the the developer visual in its default state, the one with the update counter. Now it doesn't even do that. I get the following error printout:

 

 

(in case the image is too small)

 

 error  TYPESCRIPT  /src/visual.ts : (1,54) Property 'ChicletSlicer' does not exist on type 'typeof visual'.
 error  TYPESCRIPT  /src/visual.ts : (1,54) Namespace 'powerbi.extensibility.visual' has no exported member 'ChicletSlicer'.
 error  TYPESCRIPT  /visualPlugin.ts : (8,158) Property 'Visual' does not exist on type 'typeof testInherticane714AE1C1ED164D2482B6C0D7F435F057'.

 

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v-viig
Community Champion
7 years ago

Did you put a proper class name into visualClassName?

 

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

 

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

[email protected]