What will happen to the Power BI visual at the end of 2023 if the project is being retired?

[jawz101]

https://charticulator.com/index.html

We thank all the users that have been interested in using Charticulator. We no longer have the resources to keep Charticulator up-to-date with the requirements for accessibility and security that Microsoft requires of all its software. Charticualtor will be retired at the end of this year (December 31, 2023). Both the application and website, however, are open-sourced. We hope others can continue to use and improve it.

Will the visual within Power BI remain and potentially be maintained or will it go away? I am hesitant to learn and use the Power BI Charticulator visual if, according to the charticulator website, the Microsoft Research team is retiring their support of the visual.

[garylzimmer]

I'm assuming that this means that the PowerBI Visual for Charticulator will continue to work until a breaking change is made within the PowerBI codebase. Then it will be dead as far as embedding into PowerBI. The Visual itself is NOT Open source and unless MS posts the source themselves, it's essentially a dead project. I would recommend learning Vega-Lite or Plot.ly as it is much more mature and customizable than Charticulator. Plotly is similiarly code lite as Charticulator and has a PowerBI visual for editing and displaying. Vega-Lite is a more approachable version of Vega, both of which are fully code based but provide some of the most customizable solutions for data visualizations short of straight up coding your own visual from scratch in D3.js

[zBritva]

I hope Microsoft will publish the source code of the visual. It allows to continue to work on visual part also.
The fixes made year ago still have not published yet.

[agusmba]

It's a pity to see this project discontinued.
I found Charticulator particularly easy to use and powerful.
I don't see Deneb or Plotly beeing able to easily create a single complex graph like this (variable number of rows/circle-bars, drill down...):

[zBritva]

@jawz101 @agusmba @garylzimmer Follow me on my blog or on GH.

I made updates to include the changes made a year ago and deployed the charticulator app at https://ilfat-galiev.im/charticulator/.
Now I am updating the packages and libraries to keep the Charticulator as modern app. (React 18+ e.t.c.).
I hope to finish the end of next week.

After resolving the issues with Parthner Center I am going to publish my own version of Charticulator visual in AppSource.

[zBritva]

@jawz101 @agusmba @garylzimmer
The first part of the visual is approved and available on Appsource page

[agusmba]

Thanks @zBritva !
Great news!
I'll see how easily I can migrate my custom exported pbi to the new visuals.
(btw, the new site seems to be down currently)

[zBritva]

@agusmba This is unoptimized code, I'm saving the unminimized code to get detailed error output before the final visual/app release. This is taking a while to load. Next week I'll add chunks to split the large JS file into several.

The visual is on publish, and it will take a while before it's available to import into Power BI UI.

[MSchutter29]

Dear @zBritva this is so helpful, thanks very much. Are you aware of any bugs in creating links when using the web version, more specifically in creating links using band? It seems like at the moment, links are created using lines automatically. Many thanks