questions regarding custom visuals

[Anonymous]

Hi all ,

Due to some internal needs we need to develop some custom charts ( Organizational chart) , I would appreciate if you can provide me some helpful tips and answers to the below questions in order to figure out from where we can start :

1- what skills one should have in order to develop a chart in power BI ?

2- what language is used to develop a chart in power BI ?

3- what are the required tools ?

Please let me know if there are some existing models of organizational charts with the source code and share with me some links that might help .

Thank you in advance 

Ismail

[v-viig · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

Anwsering your questions:

1. Developer should know front-end technologies such as JavaScript, CSS, HTML, etc.
2. Custom visuals are usually developed by using TypeScript and LESS.
3. Any IDE that supports TypeScript. We'd recommend to use Visual Studio Code.

Developer documentation is located here.

Please take a look at Hierarchy Chart by Akvelon that implement similar functionality.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com