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sieed
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9 years ago
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Displaying Power BI Web Reports As SlideShow

I am trying to display the variaous visualizations in my report as a  slideshow. I am planning to use Chrome's Auto Tab to rotate each tab in a specified interval. So, I will put each visual in it's ...
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shorkeyr
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6 years ago

Is there anything else that needs to be downloaded for the extension to work? I can't get it working.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    6 years ago

    shorkeyr 

     

    No, that's the only thing that should be required! Would you mind navigating to my Github page and describing your issue in more detail there by opening up a new issue?

     

    Just a few other issues that I've answered for other people as a quick reference:

    • This will not work currently for the Power BI "New Look".
    • This will not work in Power BI Server.

     

    Thank you!

    • AGo's avatar
      AGo
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      6 years ago

      Hello,

       

      I was presenting my report with Canary automatically opening at startup on my tv, your Chrome extension worked like a charm for months and started automatically, now it automatically activates correctly only eg. one time on five. I deactivated the "new look", is there a solution? Maybe the extension loads now with a delay and after the report page is loaded for some reason? Not working also on Chrome.
      Thanks Anonymous 

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        Anonymous
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        6 years ago

        AGo ,

         

        Thanks for commenting! I actually wasn't familiar with Canary until I saw your post from earlier this morning!

         

        In regards to your problem, I'm not entirely sure what could be causing that at the moment. I know that the extension writes and read variables from Chrome.Storage - and it's the synchronous storage option, if that's useful - so when you say that reports start on their own, I'm thinking that the extension is retrieving variables that have been retained from a previous use (for the same report and the same Workspace), and that's what's allowing it to start automatically. Otherwise, for a newly navigated-to report, you have to manually start it with the Play button.

         

        Assuming my above hypothesis is correct, then I'm guessing it's going into a loop like it was with me a few days ago, and - for whatever reason - the loop only occasionally ends and the extension successfully activates.

         

        I've had several other users over the past few weeks comment on GitHub issues in my repository stating that the extension is not working with the "Old Mode" user interface (I haven't added code to make it work with the "New Look" user interface still).

         

        I'm glad to report, however, that as of less than a week ago, I published a new release of the extension: v2.2.1.

         

        If you haven't done so already, please remove your previous version of the extension from Canary and Chrome and download this new version. I had to change the javsacript code because the Power BI Team has changed some of their underlying HTML code on Power BI Report pages.

         

        If this doesn't solve your issue, please open up an issue in my repository or respond on here!

         

        Thanks!

         

        Best Regards,

        Daniel