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Helper I

10 years ago

Problems updating Custom Visuals in Power BI Desktop

Since I have updated to the April release of Power BI desktop, if I make changes to my visual in the dev tools, re-import and test, changes are not reflected. I have to shutdown and restart Power BI ...

Advocate II

9 years ago

Same problem almost a year later. If anyone solved it please advise.

thanks-

Anonymous
Not applicable
9 years ago
This is going to sound like a strange solution but i had the same problem and this is what i did to fix it:

Find the GUID in your file. Everywhere you have references this GUID, increment the number by 1.

Everytime you need to import a changed version of your visual, you will need to update the value. It seems to remember
- Cubist
  Advocate II
  9 years ago
  Thanks Ross -
  
  Its worth a shot.
- Cubist
  Advocate II
  9 years ago
  Fyi, someone from MS is currently attempting to help with this issue on another thread.
  
  I started this thread to try and consolidate this question and what appear to be two other related questions on the same topic:
  https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Developer/How-is-fast-iteration-coding-done-with-a-PBI-Custom-Visual/m-p/137929#M4762
Anonymous
Not applicable
7 years ago
Actually, the only place where the guid id needs to be incremented is in the pbiviz.jons file:

for example:

{ "visual": { "name": "d3jsvisual", "displayName": "D3V5JSVisual", "guid": "D3JSVisual_PBI_CV_CDD143DEC3A145E7A507B562AF6CF492", "visualClassName": "D3JSVisual", "version": "2.0.0", "description": "", }, "apiVersion": "1.11.0" }

Then when you run 'pbiviz package', the new guid is used.
- Anonymous
  Not applicable
  7 years ago
  It might be worth nothing that this thread came about from a much earlier version of the API. I think its a bit different now.