Change Log - Visuals API

The page contains a quick summary of the API versions. Versions listed on this page are considered stable and should not change.

API v2.6

• Added isInFocus to update option and switchFocusModeState method to visual host
• Now Custom Visuals support subtotals customization

API v2.5

• Analytics Pane Support
• The DataRepetitionSelector interface is no longer supported, it was replaced with data.CustomVisualOpaqueIdentity interface
• SelectionIdBuilder supports withMatrixNode and withTable methods

API v2.3

• Landing Page API
• Local Storage API
• Tuple filter API (Multi column filter)
• Rendering Events API

API v2.2

• Restoring JSON Filter from DataView
• ContextMenu API

API v2.1

• Significant performance enhancements:
• Faster loading times
• Significantly smaller memory footprint
• Optimized data and event transactions
  Release notes

API v1.13

• Sync Slicers - Added Sync Slicers feature. Note that it’ll work only for single field slicers for now due to PBI current code state. Read more
• Accessibility: High-contrast support
• Accessibility: Allow Keyboard Focus flag

API v1.12

• Themes support
• fetchMoreData - Fetch More Data API overcome the hard limit of 30K data points
• Canvas tooltips - Canvas tooltip API

API v1.11

• FilterManager - Filter Manager
• Bookmarks Support - Bookmarks Support

API v1.10

• Added ILocalizationManager
• Added Authentication API call support

API v1.9

• launchUrl API - Added launchUrl API call support

API v1.8

• Added new type “fillRule” (gradient) support in capabilities schema
• Added “rule” property support in capabilities schema for object properties

API v1.7

• RESJSON Support - Added RESJSON support.

API v1.6.2

• Edit mode - support for visual to enter in-visual edit mode
• Interactive (html) R custom visuals - support for creating interactive R custom visuals, based on html

API v1.5.0

• Allow interactions - support for visual interactivity

API v1.4.0

• Localization Support - support for visual localization

API v1.3.0

• Tooltips - Added Tooltips support

API v1.2.0

• colorPallette - manage the colors used on your visual.
• Multiple selection - selectionManager can accept an array of SelectionId.
• R visuals - support for custom visuals using R scripts

API v1.1.0

• Debug visual in iFrame
• Light weight sandbox - faster initialization of the iFrame
• Fix issue in Capabilities.objects does not support “text” type
• Add pbiviz update to support updating visual API type definitions and schema
• Add --api-version flag to pbiviz new to support creating visuals with a specific api version

• Add support for alpha release of API v1.2.0

• Visual Host Addtions
  • createSelectionIdBuilder - allows for creation of unique identifiers used for data selection
  • createSelectionManager - manages the selection state of the visual and communicates changes to the visual host
  • colors - an array of default colors to use in your visual

API v1.0.0

• Initial API release