Can we open up Power BI to allow other creative thinkers out there to create new visualizations that can be posted on Power BI dashboard? As long as they have certain parameters (Name, chart types (...
tomhawley
6 years agoAdvocate I
A lot more visualisations would be a start, but to put the power in the hands of developers would be huge. Something not unlike data bound controls in many other MS/non-MS products, almost certainly harnessing the flexibilty of JS/HTML5 for the display element. I'd like a fairly simple grid structure to present multiple metrics with some RAG elements for performance movement and performance against targets. My exact requirements would probably be too specific to ever make the vertical strip of inbuilt visualisations, but if I could build one myself and feed it from a data set, that would be very powerful!
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