The visuals gallery will still be available until we finish moving all of the visuals to the Office store, however new submissions will only go to the Office store. All custom visuals that were ever downloaded from the gallery will continue to work as usual even after the gallery will be deprecated. We’re enabling developers to easily add custom visuals into Power BI for use in dashboard, reports and content packs. To help you get started, we’ve published the code for all of our visualizations to GitHub.
This documentation is deprecated. Please use new PowerBI Custom Visuals site instead.
Learn how to build Power BI visuals!
Developing Your First PowerBI Visual
This section is to provide you with a step by step tutorial of developing your first PowerBI visual.In this tutorial, you will be building a simple bar chart. The source code is located here in the Sample Bar Chart Repo.
Setting Up Environment
Building Bar Chart
Building a Slicer Visual
Building R Powered Custom Visual (corrplot)
Table of Contents
- Installing PowerBI Visuals Tool
- Adding External Libraries
- Visual Capabilities Definition
- Visual Documentation
Reporting Issues
If you have any issues with Power BI custom visuals or the command line tools, please let us know. First, search the Power BI Developer Forums page to see if your issue has already been reported. If it already exists, please contribute your experience to the comments. Otherwise, create a new issue. Be sure to be as detailed as possible about exactly what you were doing when the issue occured and how we can reproduce it.
- PowerBI Developer Forum - Custom visual creation, API usage, real-time dashboards, integrating with Power BI, content packs. Basically, everything about extending Power BI.
- PowerBI-visuals-tools issue page - Issues related to the CLI tools specifically
- PowerBI-visuals issue page - Any other issues related to Power BI visuals
Before you can get started you'll need to install the tools. This should only take a few seconds.
Dependencies
Before you can run (or install) the command line tools you must install NodeJS. To check that node is installed and up to date, run the following command in your terminal
- NodeJS 5.0+ Required. Versions 5 through 8 are all confirmed to work with pbiviz. - Download NodeJS
Installation
To install the command line tools simply run the following command
To confirm it was installed correctly you can run the command without any paremeters which should display the help screen.
Server certificate setup
To enable live preview visual assets need to be served on a trusted https server so before you can start you need to install an ssl certificate which will allow visual asssets to load in your web browser. This is a one time setup.
Enable developer visual
To view/test your visual in PowerBI you need to enable the development visual and then you can add it to any report.
Usage
Learn more about using these tools in the Usage Guide