Will Thompson on 12 Oct 2016 03:43:38
The current version of Power BI visualsation framework does not support access to the previous levels in a drill-down. I.e. you only get access to the current level when rendering. That makes it very hard to develop visualizations such as pivot tables or breakdown trees.
This would let custom viz developers add thing like pivot tables and Breakdown Trees :)
[This idea was created as an offshoot of https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/15844186-pivot-tables-and-breakdown-trees. Fredrik had initially asked for updates to the Custom Viz API, but many votes and comments were cast assuming the idea was just asking for the Power BI team to build Pivot Tables or Breakdown trees!]
Administrator on 08 Jun 2017 18:44:57
Hi, Drill-down for custom visuals is now supported in the framework, so any developer can update their custom visual code to add drill-down support (where applicable). Here is the announcement with the details: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Custom-Visuals-Community-Blog/Visual-API-1-6-and-Drill-down-capability-available/ba-p/190457 Documentation is on GitHub: https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-visuals/blob/master/Capabilities/Drilldown.md
- Comments (112)
RE: Custom Viz access to the previous levels in a drill-down
Oh this will be a game changer of customs visuals to Build our own complex 3D visuals. Power BI Team start this immediately a humble request to you people
RE: Custom Viz access to the previous levels in a drill-down
Update?
RE: Custom Viz access to the previous levels in a drill-down
Any updates on this when will it taken care of?
RE: Custom Viz access to the previous levels in a drill-down
Still waiting hmm
RE: Custom Viz access to the previous levels in a drill-down
Damm when will this be consider from Under-view to Started... When?
RE: Custom Viz access to the previous levels in a drill-down
When Will this would be taken seriously? When This would help Developer to create customs visuals like non other BI tool can.
RE: Custom Viz access to the previous levels in a drill-down
Under view; unfare for the most important ideas & feature for Custom API
RE: Custom Viz access to the previous levels in a drill-down
Why is that the most important & wonderful feature are removed from API?; This feature would take power BI customs visuals to a whole new level.
RE: Custom Viz access to the previous levels in a drill-down
More and More people want this old feature on Power BI API development. why can't Microsoft get this done. whats stopping you... hmmmmm
RE: Custom Viz access to the previous levels in a drill-down
We need a timeline ASAP! Finance is demanding better tables and matrices and doesn't understand/care about technical complexities. The biggest complaint is the inability to show grand totals without subtotals, but pivot tables are almost as high a priority. We may start using Qlikview because of its more Excel-like display of tables.