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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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a3309361 99be-ea11-a812-000d3a8ddfb2 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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41cfde20 7b30-42a8-b863-8e54fc82d545 on 05 Jul 2020 22:53:22

RE: Import custom visuals into PowerBI gallery only once

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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4952d79b c26b-4818-8305-671d02961db4 on 05 Jul 2020 22:44:37

RE: Import custom visuals into PowerBI gallery only once

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

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53819be9 5e2f-4584-a4ed-8114a5de701c on 05 Jul 2020 22:37:19

RE: Import custom visuals into PowerBI gallery only once

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

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1cc8275c 9bc2-4c26-8461-8d34082035fa on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:07

RE: Import custom visuals into PowerBI gallery only once

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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908153eb 9f2a-4b19-913e-e6361d0e201f 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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f1a38e79 14f6-4846-b8f4-9d286b85fc34 on 05 Jul 2020 22:28:48

RE: Import custom visuals into PowerBI gallery only once

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

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21387a57 79bf-47fa-8f60-fcabee8779d3 on 05 Jul 2020 22:28:07

RE: Import custom visuals into PowerBI gallery only once

This is a must need feature.

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3b04ae3b e130-467b-9364-a6d053ac2336 on 05 Jul 2020 22:28:06

RE: Import custom visuals into PowerBI gallery only once

Definitely a "must have" for Power BI