Displaying Power BI Web Reports As SlideShow

Hi Anonymous ,

Thanks for the feedback! It has been a little while since I last posted that, and I was wondering if anyone was still going through and searching for the same thing I was.

In regards to your question, I know exactly what you are referring to. I noticed the same issue when I was testing this extension several months ago, back when I setup the Github repository.

If I had to guess, I need to modify the code to only fire off that refresh/rotate slide Javascript loop once an event happens from the user (e.g. you click a start button, or something of that sort). It would appear that that was how _picoloto43  had originally set it up. My problem is I am (as the moment) not a fluent programmer in Javascript, but I know that the code utilizes the well-known Angular Javascript library among other things.

There is some documentation on Google Chrome extensions and how to communicate certain events and triggers to the browser, and I haven't had the time to go back and teach myself how to implement them. That might be a good place for you to start, unless I can return to it and figure it out before then. When I was troubleshooting it a few months ago, that is where I had left off.

My company is actually waiting for me to finalize some department and executive-level Power BI Reports to release to our Production Floor where I will be using my own extension, so I have to return to this very soon and figure it out. If you want, fork my Github repository to your own so you can keep up with any commits that I make.

I am in the process of teaching myself several Data Science techniques and languages, one of them being Javascript, so hopefully I can come up with a solution soon. I'm sorry I don't have more information for you in the mean time! Keep in touch, and let me know how it keeps working for you!

It's so nice to know I was able to help someone else out! The Power BI community is a really nice group of people.

Best Regards,

Daniel

Anonymous 

Well, your curiosity towards my project motivated me to push myself this past weekend and discover how to fix the bug. As it turns out, the solution was really quite simple. My issue was that I previously had no experience in handling asynschronous functions. All of my programming experience was limited to procedural programming, where the code (for the most part) fires in the order you write it in. NOT so with some of these Javascript libraries.

Anyways, now the extension will not fire until you actually click the little Power BI icon in the upper right-hand corner. I plan to return to it again soon and add more options for users to work with, such as halting the extension after it has been started.

I have already pushed a new commit to the Github repository's Master Branch:

https://github.com/DMiradakis/Power-BI-Real-Time-Slideshow

Thanks for the challenge! 😉 Now that I understand asynchronous function calling and callback functions, I am very excited to see what else I can accomplish via Javascript code.