PowerBI Custom Visual MVP

The custom visual will be:

• installable .pbviz
• video documentation: (1) installing and (2) using
• creds: fields for graphistry account
• configurable: handle pre-shaped data with no additional panel-level bindings
• tested

Subsequent versions will support fancier bindings, transforms, auth, etc.

See below on each

MVP Components

Installable .pbviz

MVP:

• Initially we need a hand-rolled installable via local dev script
• Leo will test the install: is this possible w/ OS X, or will need something more?

Deferred:

• Build automation: semvar, docker, CI/CD, PR attachment, ...
• Signing
• AppSource
• Potentially separate handling of different extension modes

Video documentation

MVP:

• 30s-3min video showing installation steps
• 30s-3min video showing putting in graphistry creds
• 30s-3min video showing binding some data to get a graph out

Later, we will do a blogpost, tutorial+video, reference docs, and additional side tutorials/videos/..

Account config

Initially, the dashboard creator will put in their graphistry creds:

• username
• password <- mark as a password field so browser can do ****
• protocol + server: default "https" and "hub.graphistry.com"
  • if protocol is http, we emit a link instead of the iframe <-- server may not have TLS setup initially

This can be part of the panel fields

Later, we can look at fancier oauth2, sharing levels, etc

Configurable

Required:

Dashboard author picks fields for:

• Edge value tables
• from/to edge fields

Alternative mode:

• Specify existing dataset id instead of using pbi data

Defaults:

• iframe url parameters: ...&splashAfter=false&menu=false

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Reach:

• edge tooltip fields:
  • extra fields to appear in edges (so Graphistry's UI can point-and-click over them)
• node value table
  • node id
  • node values
• url config
  • menu: true/false
  • logoUrl

Later:

• tooltip fields
• color/size/etc
• privacy options
• other url params: https://hub.graphistry.com/docs/api/1/rest/url/#urloptions
• preset histograms & filters

MVP Design - Summary

Required custom visual panel fields:

• graphistry protocol ("https")
• graphistry host ("hub.graphistry.com")
• graphistry username
• graphistry password (censored)
• edge from_id
• edge to_id
• dataset id <-- alternative mode

Defaults:

• urls: ...&splashAfter=false&menu=false

Reach targets for custom panel fields:

• edge value field(s)
• node id, node value field(s)

Visual result:

• Ideally Graphistry's iframe at 100% width/height
• Alternatively, URL (http)