How To Create Custom Visualizations In Power BI?

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How To Create Custom Visualizations In Power BI?

• Hello friends, in this article I am going to
  explain how to create Custom visualizations in
  Power BI. First, lets understand its meaning. As
  we all know that when you create a report in
  Power BI desktop, Power BI provides us a
  visualization pane which contains different types
  of visualizations like Bar chart, Line chart,
  Scatter chart or a Pie chart which we can use to
  create interactive graphs. If you check properly,
  these visualizations are very less. The below
  picture is showing the same thing.

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Data Visualization Services

• You can easily count these visualizations. If
  suppose you want to show some data but the
  visuals that are present is not a visualization
  you want. At that time you want some other kind
  of visualization which is your Custom
  visualization. You are not limited to these
  visualizations only. We are going to discuss how
  we are going to achieve this task.

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Types of Custom Visualizations

Custom visuals are mostly created by developers
so that users can create visuals that fit for
their business best. Report creator can import
these visuals and use them in their reports.
Custom visuals are divided into three categories.
To reach through each category you need to click
on three ellipses present in Visualization pane
(look like this).

You will see three options. Lets go through each
category one by one-
1. Custom Visual Files

2. Organizational Visuals

3. Marketplace Visuals
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Custom Visual Files

Custom visual are the files created by developers
using .NET SDK with the file extension .pbiviz.
These files can be created by anyone and the
author can import this file very easily. But this
can be very risky. Actually, it is not created by
Microsoft. You need to trust the author or
creator of the file. And after importing you can
use this visualization in your reports. In this
blog, I am not going to show you how to create
your own custom visuals through coding, because
it will be a lengthy process. I am going to write
a separate blog for this process. Here, I am
telling you to follow these steps first.

1. Click on ellipses ().

2. Click on Import from File.

3. Choose the file with (.pbiviz extension) from
your local machine (wherever it is present) and
import it into your Power BI desktop.

4. You will see one more visualization is added
in your Power BI desktop. Click on the
visualization and use it into the report.
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Power Bi - visualization

• Organizational visuals
• Power BI gives one more functionality for admins.
  A Power BI admin can upload or deploy a visual in
  his organization so that authors can easily find
  out that the admin has approved this
  visualization and can be used in their reports.
  By using this functionality an admin can choose
  specific visuals for their organization. An admin
  can enable, disable or delete the visuals.
• For importing Organizational visuals follow these
  steps.
• 1. Click on these ellipses () as shown below.

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2. Click on Import from marketplace. A new window
appears.

3. From this window Select My Organization as
shown below.4. From the above list, you can
select any visualization according to your needs.

5. To add the visualization click on Add. It will
be added in your visualization pane as shown
below and is ready to use in the
report.

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Marketplace visuals

Marketplace visuals are those visuals which are
created by Microsoft team for the end users and
can be easily downloaded and imported into the
Power BI reports. There is no risk in using these
visuals as we see while adding custom visuals
files. These all are Microsoft certified and
tested by their development team.
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How to download custom visuals from Marketplace
App Source?

• Power BI provides a simple process to download
  the custom visual from marketplace. In this
  section, we will follow the following steps.
• Import custom visuals within Power BI Desktop.
• 2. Select the ellipses in the visualization pane
  as shown below.

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3. Select Import From Marketplace. You will see a
new window appears

4. You will see a list of charts appears. You can
download any chart from here. As we can see there
are different charts like Box and Whisker chart,
Drill down donut chart, Thermometer by MAQ
software etc. There is one sidebar also. You can
easily filter the charts based on your
requirements so that you do not need to download
the complete list. For example, if you want to
create a map chart, simply click on maps from the
sidebar and you will only see the list related to
map charts. Same with other categories like
Filters, Time and Infographics etc.

5. If you want a detailed explanation of a
particular chart. Just click on the vary chart
and a new window will open which have all the
information like Description, Version, Reviews
and Query and Feedback as shown below.

6. For reviews, scroll down to the bottom.

7. Click on Add to see the visuals in the
visualization pane and it is ready to use in the
reports.
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Conclusion

In this complete section, I have explained you
all the major three steps to import custom
visualizations in your Power BI desktop. For
creating your own custom visual file, I will come
up with another blog. For now, you can go through
and understand its concepts because it requires
strong coding skills. If you have any query
regarding this article, you can post your queries
in the comment section. Thanks!
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