How to Get Field Name(Capability Name) from GetFilter Method of powerBi using JavaScript

Question

We are creating Visuals using Power BI API Client(JavaScript).Once it is created I want to pre populate all selected Capabilities and filters in another view.I used Visual.getFilters() method to get all pre selected filters but in each item I am not getting the capability to which it belongs,Is there is any way to get capability name with each filter. for example

I selected bellow properties for creating a visual

Visual Type = Funnel

Capabilities

1 Group = Group1

2 Values = value1

after saving this visual when we execute getFilters(),we are getting this two objects but it does not contains Capability names like Group/Values

Answer 1

It is not possible to get the capability names in each filter using getFilters(), we can get the Capability Names by using getCapabilities. To get the capability names, follow the below steps:

1. Create an authoring page:

window.authoringPage = await report.addPage(pageName);

2. Create a visual using Create a visual API:

const createVisualResponse = await page.createVisual('Visual_Name');
const visual = createVisualResponse.visual;

3. Get the applied filters using getFilters():

const filters = await visual.getFilters();

We didn't get capabilities of each filter in filters object

4. Get the Capability Names by using getCapabilities:

const capabilities = await visual.getCapabilities();

Find the references and the sample code here: https://learn.microsoft.com/javascript/api/overview/powerbi/report-authoring-overview https://learn.microsoft.com/javascript/api/overview/powerbi/create-add-visual https://learn.microsoft.com/javascript/api/overview/powerbi/get-visual-capabilities