Launched new subfolders to store visuals with their guid as filename

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How do you know “the identity” of a custom visual in a Power BI report or project files?
You look for its GUID.

Each custom visual has a ID. When the visual is published on AppSource, it gets a global unique identifier.

There are multiple ways to find the visual’s guid in a report. The most recent method that is to save the report as a project (.pbip) using Power BI Desktop and then look for a subfolder with the guid name under [report].Report/CustomVisuals/. The guid also appears in package.json under visual.guid. And if you use organizational visual, you can find the visual guid in one of the jsons with “_org” suffix.

To help you match visuals in this repository with the ones you have in your reports, we added the GUIDs as the filenames of the visuals under a new subfolder "PBIVIZ with guid".

The new subfolder will be available in the main folders: "All Visuals", "Certified", "Uncertified" and "Unlisted". Every refresh of the repository will overwrite the older versions of the visuals with the newest.

"PBIVIZ" folder will include the same visuals as in "PBIVIZ with guid", but with more user-friendly filenames. "PBIVIZ with versions" will keep storing all visuals by the various versions we are collecting in this repo.

You can also find the guid in the Visuals Summary.md and .csv files under Visual GUID field.

Together with the version field that is available in the summary files, you can quickly check if this repository has new versions of visuals you would need.

If you know which guid you need, you can get the latest version by generating the following URL:
https://github.com/DataChant/PowerBI-Visuals-AppSource/blob/main/All%20Visuals/PBIVIZ%20with%20guid/[guid].pbiviz

For example - here is the link of the latest Hierarchical Filter visual:
https://github.com/DataChant/PowerBI-Visuals-AppSource/blob/main/All%20Visuals/PBIVIZ%20with%20guid/HierarchicalFilterF39DAE8D57A743EF89F5C3809DEE2B67.pbiviz

Hope you find it useful.