I have a question about creating the custom visualization in Power BI.
I want to implement a "total row" functionality which is available in the built-in matrix visualization. The main concept is to automatically sum-up every value and group it by the rows. This is how it's looks like on the matrix visualization:
But, to be honest, I don't know how to achieve this. I try different things but I can't receive this grouped values in the dataViews.
I tried to analyze the built-in matrix.ts code but it's quite different that the custom visualizations code. I found the customizeQuery method which set the subtotalType property to the rows and columns - I tried to add this in my code but I don't see any difference in the dataViews (I don't found the grouped value).
Currently my capabilities.dataViewMappings is set like this:
dataViewMappings: [
{
conditions: [
{ 'Rows': { max: 3 } }
],
matrix: {
rows: {
for: { in: 'Rows' },
},
values: {
for: { in: 'Values' }
},
},
}
]
Does anyone know how we could achieve this "total row" functionality?
UPDATE 1
I already found the solution: when we implement the customizeQuery
method (in the same way as the customizeQuery method in the matrix.ts code), and then add the reference to it in the powerbi.visuals.plugins.[visualisationName+visualisationAddDateEpoch].customizeQuery
then it works as expected (I receive in the dataViews[0].matrix.row.root
children elements that has the total values from row).
The only problem now is that I don't know exactly how to add correctly this reference to the customizeQuery
method. For example the [visualisationName+visualisationAddDateEpoch]
is Custom1451458639997
, and I don't know what those number will be (I know only the name). I created the code in my visualisation constructor as below (and it's working):
constructor() {
var targetCustomizeQuery = this.constructor.customizeQuery;
var name = this.constructor.name;
for(pluginName in powerbi.visuals.plugins) {
var patt = new RegExp(name + "[0-9]{13}");
if(patt.test(pluginName)) {
powerbi.visuals.plugins[pluginName].customizeQuery = targetCustomizeQuery;
break;
}
}
}
But in my opinion this code is very dirty and inelegant. I want to improve it - what is the correct way to tell the Power BI that we implement the custom customizeQuery
method and it should use it?
UPDATE 2
Code from update 1 works only with the Power BI in the web browser (web based). On the Power BI Desktop the customizeQuery
method isn't invoked. What is the correct way to tell the Power BI to use our custom customizeQuery
method? In the code from PowerBI-visuals repository using PowerBIVisualPlayground we could declare it in the plugin.ts
file (in the same way like the matrix visual is done):
export let matrix: IVisualPlugin = {
name: 'matrix',
watermarkKey: 'matrix',
capabilities: capabilities.matrix,
create: () => new Matrix(),
customizeQuery: Matrix.customizeQuery,
getSortableRoles: (visualSortableOptions?: VisualSortableOptions) => Matrix.getSortableRoles(),
};
But, in my opinion, from the Power BI Dev Tools we don't have access to add additional things to this part of code. Any ideas?