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Modified Power BI custom visual and generated new pbiviz file, but not seeing changes
I'm learning about creating custom visuals, so after doing the bar chart tutorial, I downloaded the WordCloud custom visual (https://app.powerbi.com/visuals/show/WordCloud1447959067750) and modified it slightly just to see if I could see the changes reflected back but it looks the same as always. I modified capabilities.json to change the label "Data colors" to be "Data colors 2" on the formatting section that you see when you want to change the colors it uses. Then I changed the 2500 limit to 50000. I generated a new pbiviz file (ran "pbiviz package" in the node.js command line) and it updated the pbiviz file in the /dist folder. When I imported it into Power BI desktop and powerbi.com, it still said "Data colors" and seemed to be using the 2500 limit, although that one is harder to tell. What am I doing wrong? Is there another place to change this? I searched the whole project for "Data colors" and that's the only spot. I had a coworker import it and he did not see the changes either.
Change #1 in capabilities.json:
"dataPoint": {
"displayName": "Data colors 2",
"properties": {
"fill": {
"displayName": "Fill",
"type": {
"fill": {
"solid": {
"color": true
...Change #2 in capabilities.json:
"categorical": {
"categories": {
"for": {
"in": "Category"
},
"dataReductionAlgorithm": {
"top": {
"count": 50000 //changed this from 2500
}
}
},
"values": {
"for": {
"in": "Values"
}
}
}
It seems that you are facing the same issue in this thread(http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Developer/Tweaking-an-existing-Custom-Visual-the-change-is-successful-but/m-p/107019#M3739).
2 Replies
- v-chuncz-msft
Community Support
It seems that you are facing the same issue in this thread(http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Developer/Tweaking-an-existing-Custom-Visual-the-change-is-successful-but/m-p/107019#M3739).
- kpatterson2
Advocate II
Thanks, the steps in that solution worked. I had to change the guid before packaging it again. Given that before I did this, when I uploaded it, it asked if I wanted to update the visual, I got the impression I could update an existing one.