ChipSlicerHierarchy

ChipSlicer Hierarchy — Power BI Custom Visual

A hierarchical chip/pill slicer for Power BI with drill-down filtering across up to 3 levels:
Category → SubCategory → Product

Features

Feature	Free	Pro
Hierarchy levels	2	3
Values per level	20	Unlimited
Multi-select	✗	✓
Custom per-level colors	✗	✓
Auto-collapse siblings	✗	✓
Configurable reset button	✗	✓

How It Works

Drag a Category field into the Level 1 well
(Optional) Add a SubCategory field to Level 2
(Optional) Add a Product field to Level 3
Click a chip to filter — child chips expand automatically
Click the expand icon (▸) to browse without filtering

Installation

Install directly from Microsoft AppSource.

Build from Source

# Prerequisites: Node.js 18+, pbiviz tools
npm install -g powerbi-visuals-tools

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Start development server (live reload in Power BI Desktop)
npm start

# Build .pbiviz package
npm run build

The output .pbiviz file will be in the dist/ folder.

Project Structure

ChipSlicerHierarchy/
├── src/
│   ├── visual.ts          # Main visual logic + HierarchyManager
│   └── settings.ts        # Formatting settings model
├── style/
│   └── visual.less        # Visual styles
├── assets/
│   └── icon.svg           # AppSource icon (20×20)
├── stringResources/
│   ├── en-US/resources.resjson
│   └── es-ES/resources.resjson
├── docs/
│   ├── privacy-policy.html   # https://tcviz.com/privacy
│   └── terms-of-use.html     # https://tcviz.com/terms
├── capabilities.json      # Data roles & formatting objects
├── pbiviz.json            # Visual metadata
├── package.json
└── tsconfig.json

AppSource Compliance Checklist

Context menu on empty space (null selectionId) — req. 1
Tooltips on all chips (chip.title = label) — req. 2
Terms of Use separate from Privacy Policy — req. 3
Sample .pbix with 13+ unique values & Hints page — req. 4 & 5
Privacy policy in English at public URL — req. 6
Correct version in pbiviz.json — req. 7
Public GitHub repository — req. 8
No intrusive watermark in free tier — req. 9
Official IVisualLicenseManager API — req. 10

License

Commercial software. See Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Source code published for AppSource review transparency. Redistribution not permitted.