Overview
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Learn how to create custom visuals in Power BI
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Intro to Microsoft Power BI
- Who this course is for
- What is Power BI?
- What is a custom visual?
- Understand the target set up
- Licensing, software, and version requirements
- Create your first (demo) custom visual
- Understand the folder structure of your new project
- Understand key files and Identify the ones to change
- See the target visual, data, and formatting
- Edit capabilities.json and inspect the resulting data
- Edit visual.ts to display a KPI value in Power BI
- Edit visual.ts to access the user's formatting choices
- Add a responsive SVG using D3
- Add rectangles and text to your KPI visual
- Use formatting utils API to set text size dynamically
- Use font size and fill color from the formatting pane
- Challenge: Add fill opacity to the formatting pane
- Solution: Add fill opacity to the formatting pane
- Challenge: Change the font color the KPI and label
- Solution: Change the font color the KPI and label
- Challenge: Place label at top or bottom
- Solution: Place label at top or bottom
- Tell Power BI to accept categorical data
- Create D3 linear scales and axes in your custom visual
- Add some dots to make a scatterplot
- Add some dots to make a scatterplot
- Challenge: Make the dots responsive
- Solution: Make the dots responsive
- Grouping your data to help make a bubble chart
- Create grouped scatter plot data, to allow different colors per category
- Update your D3 code to reflect your new grouped data
- Add a size dimension to create a bubble chart
- Distributing your visual
- Challenge: Change the hard coding of colors into dynamic coloring based on an array
- Solution: Change the hard coding of colors into dynamic coloring based on an array
- Goodbye
