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Import custom visuals into PowerBI gallery only once

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Sam on 17 May 2016 04:58:53

It's truly amazing to see some high quality community-developed custom visuals. However, I have to import the custom visuals every time I need them in a new PowerBI report using the desktop app. Please allow custom visuals to be imported only once into a standard PowerBI templates repository and be able to use them going forward without a need to reimport them every time.

Administrator on 09 Dec 2016 03:58:40

This is on our roadmap. I'll update when we have more concrete timeline.

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 06 Jul 2020 00:00:56

RE: Import custom visuals into PowerBI gallery only once

Yes, an import should work across dashboards and shoud be available for any dashboard opened on the same machine. Saves a lot of time and also when you may not have an active internet and your data is on the intranet or the same machine.

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Chris on 05 Jul 2020 22:53:22

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Option to auto update custom visuals, or notification that an update is available, would be very useful along with this library approach

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Emily on 05 Jul 2020 22:44:37

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Agreed! Would love to see work done on this issue. Any update from Microsoft on this feature?

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Alan on 05 Jul 2020 22:37:19

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Much needed, tired of having to reimport every time I make a new report.

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Sathya on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:07

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Would be great to have an central organization custom visual repository and import once by admins and all internal business users can then benefit from there.

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Tanja Fischer on 05 Jul 2020 22:33:27

RE: Import custom visuals into PowerBI gallery only once

I would like to know what the status is on this suggestion?
i also think it is essential for using power BI.
regards tanja

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Deena Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:28:48

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Absolutely agree, it's very annoying that we need to re import each time.

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shekhar on 05 Jul 2020 22:28:07

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This is a must need feature.

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Francesco Mantovani on 05 Jul 2020 22:28:06

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Definitely a "must have" for Power BI