Dynamically define colour of bar/column graph - custom visualisation
Hi, I'm looking to create bar or column charts with defined custom colours for each item in the legend. Can anyone suggest a way to pass a data field containing color information such as #FF0000 to a...
View ArticleRe: Dyanmically changing the title based on the drill down
You create a measure that returns text. The measure detects the state of various filters and concatenates various peices of text accordingly. Will Thompson shows how at about 28 minute mark of this...
View ArticleRe: Dyanmically changing the title based on the drill down
Sorry, forgot to mention. You turn off the exisitng title and place a text measure in a single item card above the chart to act as the dynamically generated title.
View ArticleRe: Connection String for Embedded report which uses DirectQuery
Yes that will work as it retains the connection string from the .pbix file you upload. If you want to programmatically change the connection string (e.g. to switch between DEV/TEST/LIVE) then I...
View ArticleRe: How to access context information inside a custom visual
Will Thompson shows how at about 28 minutes in this presentation from Data Insightshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2bZpNZ6uIA
View ArticleRe: Dyanmically changing the title based on the drill down
Hey , the video only shows once a filter has been clicked and applied across the page. What appears to be referring to is when you drill down to another level of the hierarchy. So in this case, the...
View ArticleRe: How to access context information inside a custom visual
it appears that the powerbi.session.userInfo may not work: https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-visuals/issues/412 I'll try this out later today. Thanks for the tip. Thanks for those resources...
View ArticleRe: Power BI Embedded questions
Hi AliSharifi, Thank you for the reply. I have already tried that sample and it works fine but the question is related to the NuGet packages for Power BI Embedded which are currently not supported with...
View ArticleRe: What is Power BI embedded?
:Thanks man. This is very useful information. "I attended a recent Roadshow - it is very promising but in early stages" Where i will get these kind of session details? These are paid or free sessions?...
View ArticleRe: Power BI Embedded questions
: Is Azure subscription mandantory for Power BI Embedded? I don't have Azure subcription. Can i implement a poc like you with out the subcriptiion?
View ArticleRe: How to access context information inside a custom visual
Oh, I see it is yet another feature blocked by the custom visual sanboxing. At the moment, there are two known official(And not very satisfying) ways to overcome this issue:1. Using the temporary...
View ArticleRe: Power BI Embedded questions
Yes I believe you need an Azure subscription as you need to set up a Power BI Workspace Collection, and either a Azure SQL database or Azure SQL Datawarehouse (or HDInsights) - all done through the...
View ArticleRe: Dyanmically changing the title based on the drill down
Ah, I missed that! I wonder whether you could write DAX to detect the drill down, perhaps you could detect the Year context disappears altogether?
View ArticleRe: Where are the "see records" columns setup?
I have the same issue. I want to add columns and change the order of the columns, all of which i can do when i am looking at the records, but they are gone when i drill back in.
View ArticleRe: What is Power BI embedded?
It was a free event, final one is San Francisco on 17 May.https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-power-bi-embedded-launch-roadshow/ A lot of the information is covered in the Azure...
View ArticleRe: Dynamically define colour of bar/column graph - custom visualisation
do you have any links or suggestions on whether this is possible?
View ArticleHiding visual level filters
I have an embedded report and there are some visual level filters that I do not want the end user to be able to play with. Is it possible to hide these from the side bar that has filter options, or to...
View ArticleRe: Hiding visual level filters
You might try to see if you can CSS your way to a solution, I really haven't played around with the exact rendering of Power BI Embedded reports. I suppose it depends on your application. I am not...
View ArticleRe: Hiding visual level filters
Yeah, that was my thoughts. Will need to think about changing my data structures.
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