Forum Discussion
aarshps
8 years agoFrequent Visitor
Pass value to the embedded app from custom visual
Hi all, I want to pass values to the embedded app from the custom visual used in my report. For eg. I want to raise an event when a click event occurs inside the custom visual so that I can take ...
aarshps
8 years agoFrequent Visitor
Sorry for the late reply.
It is possible to achieve what I was trying to do. What I had in mind is I have a button on my Power BI report. When I click on the button, a popup appears in the application where my Power BI report is embedded. So I wanted the application to recieve an event trigger when the Power BI report button is pressed. This was achieved using a custom visual that I wrote. The visual simply passed a string value to the parent windows so that I was able to recieve the event.
jwenger100
7 years agoMicrosoft Employee
Did you end up having to use postMessage to accomplish it?