Custom Visual not loading! Please Help!

[Anonymous]

Hey!

I have been trying to build a custom visual that looks something like this with help of the sampleBarChart visual on Microsoft Github.

I have loaded my data using the following code.

"dataRoles": [{
            "displayName": "Category Data",
            "name": "category",
            "kind": "Grouping"
        },
		
        {
            "displayName": "x1",
            "name": "x1",
            "kind": "Measure"
        },
		{
            "displayName": "x2",
            "name": "x2",
            "kind": "Measure"
        },
		{
            "displayName": "y1",
            "name": "y1",
            "kind": "Measure"
        },
		{
            "displayName": "y2",
            "name": "y2",
            "kind": "Measure"
        },
        {
            "displayName": "Tooltips",
            "name": "Tooltips",
            "kind": "Measure"
        }
    ],



"dataViewMappings": [{
        "conditions": [{
            "category": {
                "max": 1
            },
            "x1": {
                "max": 1
            },
			"x2": {
                "max": 1
            },
			"y1": {
                "max": 1
            },
			"y2": {
                "max": 1
            }
        }],
	
		"categorical": {
            "categories": {
                "for": {
                    "in": "category"
                }
            },
            "values": {
                "select": [{
                    "bind": {
                        "to": "x1"
                    }
                },
					{
                    "bind": {
                        "to": "x2"
                    }
					},
					{
                    "bind": {
                        "to": "y1"
                    }
					},
					{
                    "bind": {
                        "to": "y2"
                    }}
                ]}
	
            }
        }
    ],

I can view the data on the debug terminal. I am trying to load the data into the code using the following code.

 const dataView = options.dataViews[0];
        let categorical = dataViews[0].categorical;
        let category = categorical.categories[0];
        let datax1 = this.valueForSource(dataView,"x1");
        let datax2 = this.valueForSource(dataView,"x2");
        let datay1 = this.valueForSource(dataView,"y1");
        let datay2 = this.valueForSource(dataView,"y2");
...
barChartDataPoints.push({
                color,
                strokeColor,
                strokeWidth,
                selectionId,
                x1: datax1.values[i],
                x2: datax2.values[i],
                y1: datay1.values[i],
                y2: datay2.values[i],
                category: `${category.values[i]}`

            });

And I edited the rectangle code to look like this.

this.barSelection
                .attr({
                    width: d=> xScale(<number>d.x2-<number>d.x1),
                    height: d => height - yScale(<number>d.y2-<number>d.y1),
                    y: d => <number>d.y2,
                    x: d => <number>d.x1,
                })
                .style({
                    'fill-opacity': opacity,
                    'stroke-opacity': opacity,
                    fill: (dataPoint: BarChartDataPoint) => dataPoint.color,
                    stroke: (dataPoint: BarChartDataPoint) => dataPoint.strokeColor,
                    "stroke-width": (dataPoint: BarChartDataPoint) => `${dataPoint.strokeWidth}px`,
                });

However, the visual is not processing. Please help! @v-viig @Riaon 

[v-evelk]

Hi,

Could you please share your code repository of send .pbix file to pbicvsupport@microsoft.com for analysis?

Kind Regards,

Evgenii Elkin,
Software Engineer
Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals
pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

[Anonymous]

Hey.

PFA the files at this link. The capabilities.json and the BarChart.ts are the two files are the ones that I edited. The rest is from the Microsoft Repository for Sample Bar Charts

https://github.com/shadowfax1312/TrialVisualBIChart

@v-evelk 

[v-evelk]

Hi,

I investigated your code and found that inside module function visualTransform you try to use "this" object that is not exists in such functions because they are not related to visual object if you call them directly.

For instance, the following code inside the function throw an error because this is not exists there

this.valueForSource(dataView,"x1")

As a solution you need to avoid using of 'this' inside visualTransform function or you can make functions that are called inside as static and call them like demonstrated below.

BarChart.valueForSource(dataView,"x1")

Kind Regards,

Evgenii Elkin,
Software Engineer
Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals
pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

[drumcircle]

As a rule, and this goes for working with any complex framework, take it step by step.  Console.log along the way.  Get some output, make it better, repeat.  

As an aside, your datapoints structure looks odd. If you have a fixed collection of heterogenous, named values, model as a class and populate the members.