Add tag for powerbi-custom-visuals
Some background details
Power BI is a self-service analytics tool.
Stack Overflow already has several Power BI related tags (8 in total). Aside from the main powerbitag, there are tags for specific platforms e.g. powerbi-desktop and powerbi-mobile and tags for specific aspects of Power BI such as powerbi-embedded and powerbi-datasource. Custom visuals fit the latter category.
Custom visuals are visualization plugins for Power BI - mostly written by the community and typically open-source. Compared to general Power BI questions, questions related to custom visuals are relevant to a different audience (developers, rather than typical Power BI users), they tend to focus on different topics, and typically require different knowledge and skill-set to answer.
At the time of writing this, there are 119 questions about Power BI custom visual development, their capabilities, API and usage.
These two reasons justify adding a separate tag for custom visuals.
Tag suggestion
Suggesting to add a powerbi-custom-visuals tag, with the following description:
Questions about Power BI custom visuals: their development, capabilities and usage. Power BI is a self-service analytics tool. Custom visuals are visualization plugins for Power BI, written in TypeScript or JavaScript using the Custom Visuals SDK.
I don't have a high enough reputation to add the tag myself.
Power BI in general, and custom visuals in particular already have official documentation and a developer forum. So this is in line with Stack Overflow's product-support policy ("Stack Overflow can help support your product but it can't be the only support.").
Fair disclosure: I'm a Microsoft employee, working in Power BI extensions development team. This is my personal SE account, and I occasionally contribute to SE sites on my personal time and in an unofficial manner.
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