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Issue with Filter by List by Devscope Visual
I found a solution that is currently working for me (I'm on PBIRS January 2023 version). This youtube video got me pointed in the right direction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqDDgPDhSE4
If you have a PBIX file with a previously working version of the FilterByList visual, you can
- export a template of your dashboard (PBIT).
- Then you open the PBIT template file in 7zip or Winzip and find the 'FilterByList507A2DBEC31244C8AAABDE9BA541F723' folder within Reports>Custom Visuals.
- Extract the files within and repackage/zip them up as a new file ending in pbiviz (e.g. CustomVisual.pbiviz)
- Back in your PBIX file, in the Visualizations pane, select ... and then 'Import a visual from a file'
- Select your newly packaged pbiviz file and you should get a messaage 'Import successful'
Between steps 3 and 4, I did something that I'm not sure is necessary. I read in this thread about the need to modify all references of a 'guid' variable throughout the files in the FilterByList folder. I might've done overkill on this, but I'll try to explain.
- The folder inside the PBIT file was named 'FilterByList507A2DBEC31244C8AAABDE9BA541F723' so I appended that name with 'XX' to become 'FilterByList507A2DBEC31244C8AAABDE9BA541F723XX.'
- Within the folder is a file 'package.json' - it contained a 'guid' variable and also another reference to FilterByList507A2DBEC31244C8AAABDE9BA541F723. In both cases I appended the values with 'XX'
- Within the folder there is another folder 'resources' and a json file called 'FilterByList507A2DBEC31244C8AAABDE9BA541F723' I appended the 'XX' to that filename as well.
- I opened that file and did a find/replace on all references to '507A2DBEC31244C8AAABDE9BA541F723' in order to append them with 'XX' - there were probably 5-10 of them.
- I saved all those changes to the files before extracting/zipping them.
Anyway, good luck and you can PM me if you need any help.
great news! I have been communicating with support and they are working on some bug fixes and possible licensing changes, but in the meantime they have made the old version of the slicer available for usage. here is a snippet of my chat with them...
We will give you access to the old version so that you can use it internally in your reports. The only difference is the Internal Id so Power BI online does not automatically update to the newest version.
Please download it here - https://download.devscope.net/setups/FilterByList/FilterByListOnPrem.2.1.0.0.pbiviz
We are trying to roll back licensing, but we are dependent on Microsoft's validation process.
So while the validation process takes place, anyone on the forum can use the link.
We are testing out how to implement this change. from what we can tell, what you need to do is:
1) download and install the new "old" slicer
2) change the existing slicer in your report to this new one
3) unsync this slicer from any existing tab in your report, and then resync the slicer
4) you may need to do some formatting cleanup
if you dont do #3 or 4, the synced slicers stay as the "new" version and dont get updated to the "old" one
good luck!
Adam