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j-murray
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3 years ago

Issue with R plotly in pbiviz versions 4.0.6+

Hello,   I'm posting this for general visibility, I've also sent an email to PBI custom visuals support. I ran into the same issue as this post: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Developer/Interacti...
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User02
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3 years ago

Hello,

 

Could you explain a bit more please? - I'm havign the same issue but I'm not sure exactly what I need to do to correct it. My coding skills are not great, is there a step-by-step process for

-rolling back my version of powerbi-visuals-tools and

-creating/packaging the rhtml template for pbiviz versions 4.0.2 to 4.0.7 ?

 

Thanks!

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j-murray
Frequent Visitor
3 years ago

Hey, sure happy to elaborate. I'll use the steps in this link as a reference to try and make this easier to follow: https://radacad.com/interactive-map-using-r-and-power-bi-create-custom-visual-part-1

In first step, I assume you've already downloaded a recent version of NodeJS so ignore that.  Next it discusses installing powerbi-visuals-tools using npm. Here we will make our first adjustment, modify the install line they use to: npm install -g [email protected] 

Now, certify pbiviz by executing: pbiviz --install-cert

This should launch a certification wizard and provide you with a passphrase in the command line that you'll need for one step in the wizard.

Once you've done these two things, you should be able to follow the guide (note the 'What is new in 2019' section) to generate a working rhtml template.

 

I think this should get you set up, but please let me know if something isn't working for you still.

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    User02
    Frequent Visitor
    3 years ago

    Thanks for the reply.

    I did all of that and I think it solved one problem but created another. While it now says the certificate is valid, I get the following error which must be related somehow.... Any idea how to solve this?

     

    node.exe : error Package wasn't created. 2 errors found
    At C:\Users\....\pbiviz.ps1:24 char:5
    + & "node$exe" "$basedir/node_modules/powerbi-visuals-tools/bin/pb ...
    + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: ( error Package... 2 errors found:String) [], RemoteException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError

    warn Please, make sure that the visual source code matches to requirements of certification: