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bhavesh-jadav
Helper I
8 years ago
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Power BI Custom Visual Storing Properties/Format Data

Hello there,   As of my knowledge, if you want to add some property/format settings for visual that user can change, then you would add it to the format pane from where user can change properties/f...
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  • v-viig's avatar
    v-viig
    8 years ago

    Inforgraphic Designer keeps advanced settings in Format Panel like other options but such advanced options are hidden for users.

    Settings are kept as a JSON string.

     

    To keep settings in Format Panel and hide it for user you should:

    1. Define properties in objects property of capabilities.json (Sankey example)
    2. Parse properties from a dataView for each update to restore the desired state of a custom visual
    3. Do not enumerate such properties in enumerateObjectInstances
    4. To keep settings your visual should call persistProperties method (Sankey example)

     

    Ignat Vilesov,

    Software Engineer

     

    Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

    [email protected]

     

     

  • v-viig's avatar
    v-viig
    7 years ago

    Just make you div transparent to inherit background color of parent element.

     

    Ignat Vilesov,

    Software Engineer

     

    Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

    [email protected]

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v-viig
Community Champion
8 years ago

Inforgraphic Designer keeps advanced settings in Format Panel like other options but such advanced options are hidden for users.

Settings are kept as a JSON string.

 

To keep settings in Format Panel and hide it for user you should:

  1. Define properties in objects property of capabilities.json (Sankey example)
  2. Parse properties from a dataView for each update to restore the desired state of a custom visual
  3. Do not enumerate such properties in enumerateObjectInstances
  4. To keep settings your visual should call persistProperties method (Sankey example)

 

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

 

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

[email protected]

 

 

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
7 years ago

So, we couldn't able to access the pre-defined format options data from the custom visuals right? If wrong please correct me.

 

Let us assume, we have a custom visual for that we need to access default format data properties value of Title Text or background. Is it possible to access those values from our custom visuals?

 

Please refer the screenshot,

 

 

Thanks In Advance.

  • v-viig's avatar
    v-viig
    Community Champion
    7 years ago

    Predefined Format Panel groups such as Title and Background are not available for Custom Visuals.

     

    Ignat Vilesov,

    Software Engineer

     

    Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

    [email protected]

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      7 years ago

      Okay. So we couldn't able to access those values from our custom visuals.

      • v-viig's avatar
        v-viig
        Community Champion
        7 years ago

        Right. It is not possible.

         

        Why do you need these options?

         

        Ignat Vilesov,

        Software Engineer

         

        Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

        [email protected]