Custom visuals failing to load in Power BI desktop for RS (May 2021)


This article discusses about the issue with custom visuals failing to load in Power BI desktop for RS and the solution to get the visuals to load.

 

About the issue:

From Power BI desktop for RS, when adding a custom visual from local file, the visual keeps loading and doesn’t show up:

 

 

The above-mentioned behavior would be encountered in one of the following scenarios:

When the machine that has PBI desktop is not connected to internet When the PBI desktop machine’s network device blocks “pbivisuals.powerbi.com”

 

How to load custom visuals?

 

You can use one