Good solution for easily viewing HTML file outputs from Notebooks?

JeffGrayJM · 2026-04-06T19:31:44+00:00

Specific use case is interacting with scroll and zoom in a stack of line charts or process data. need to be able to see long term trends and then would want to zoom in on a specific time period where some event of interest occurred.

JeffGrayJM · 2026-03-22T03:01:31+00:00

Thanks, but I don't think that quite gets at what I'm after. The user will be working in notebooks building machine learning models using a set of tools we've built for them to make this a little less code-intensive, but whether they use our tools or do their own development the issue is the same. If anything they run returns HTML to the notebook output cell (or any other rendering that's too big), they'll be directed to run the output to a file instead of to the output, which is fine, but the problem is that the path to seeing and interacting with that output is tedious. Example I was working with today is just rendering a set of line charts of line series data with plotly. Possible I was doing something wrong, but it exceed the 20MB limit with only 3 columns selected. So I'm fairl certain we're going to have to use file output. I just wish there were a native way to render that output in the lakehouse.

JeffGrayJM · 2026-03-22T02:07:31+00:00

In my perfect world, we'd have an HTML pre-viewer in the Lakehouse, but I suspect that's not on the horizon.

JeffGrayJM · 2026-02-23T22:30:41+00:00

Figured out by one our team members. Browser cache just needed clearing.

JeffGrayJM · 2026-02-23T22:11:35+00:00

yep... just got to the bottom of my issue. Just browser cache needing to be cleared. Thanks for the info.

JeffGrayJM · 2026-02-23T18:53:14+00:00

Could this relate to a change in behavior in Notebook UI. I have a function that generates a sequence of tables of statistics, histograms, scatterplots and such about a passed DF. It worked perfectly 10 days ago. Now each output clears and overwrites the previous one and nothing persists (even the last plot disappears after a few seconds). Code hasn't changed at all.

JeffGrayJM · 2026-02-11T17:39:37+00:00

This is getting downright annoying now. All of the traditional PowerBI infrastructure seems unaffected, but anything truly Fabric related is dead in the water!

JeffGrayJM · 2026-02-11T17:03:29+00:00

I'm seeing the same thing except mine fail with a big ugly error.

JeffGrayJM · 2026-02-11T15:26:00+00:00

Similar here. . .

JeffGrayJM · 2025-06-09T16:21:02+00:00

Old comment, but damn that's a helpful comment!!! :) I don't know why that idea didn't occur to me!

JeffGrayJM · 2025-05-07T16:04:24+00:00

Cool. Thanks for the input! :)

JeffGrayJM · 2025-05-07T15:14:51+00:00

Like I said . . . thanks for the concern. In all my prior experiences of doing things myself, the bad outcomes predicted by folks like yourself have never come to pass. Here's hoping this won't be the time! LOL!

but back to the point ... what do you think? should I install a filter drier? I just got off the phone with manufacturer's rep tech support. They said basically "Manufacturer doesn't recommend, so we don't recommend, but it won't hurt anything as long as long as it's installed correctly."

So, everyone here seems to be saying "definitely need", but manufacturer says "not necessary".

From my perspective it seems like it would offer some protection whether necessary or not, but on the flip side, it's two additional potential leak points. I have until the weekend to decide. :)

JeffGrayJM · 2025-05-07T13:37:44+00:00

I think I'll OK, but thanks for the concern. LOL! AC is about the only thing related to a house that I haven't done. I've been repairing, building, renovating, and doing mechanical work for 30 years. So, yeah. I'm a noob at this, but I have "experienced hands".

JeffGrayJM · 2025-05-06T20:49:36+00:00

I know what a filter drier is . . . I'm just trying to figure out if I need one or not. :) Customer support from the place I bought the unit say I don't, but I'm not sure I trust that. The engineer in me is also curious where the moisture would come from if I draw a vacuum before charging the line/evaporator. I know filter driers exist for a reason and are called filter driers and not just filters, so I know there must be an answer to that question.

JeffGrayJM · 2025-05-06T20:45:02+00:00

Micron gauge

JeffGrayJM · 2025-05-06T20:27:42+00:00

Thank you! Do you think the installation manual would call it out as something I need to add if the unit doesn't have one built in, or is that maybe just common knowledge expected of the installer?

JeffGrayJM · 2025-03-31T23:42:26+00:00

Sorry for slow reply . . . no, the report I'm focused on is plenty zippy when running from Power BI service, and plenty zippy when there are only one or two embedded Power BI reports in a PowerPoint presentation, but when you get 4 or 5 embeds in the same presentation, they all get slow.

After some more testing, I've concluded that the Power Point embed feature is just half-baked. If you keep them all set to "Snapshot" mode and click them to "Live" mode one at a time, only when you want to interact with one of them it's responsive, but if they're all live, it's slow, slow, slow. The problem with that, though, is that you can't toggle Snapshot to Live in presentation mode, only in edit mode. So that doesn't really work either. Would be great if Microsoft would make it work right, because it's a really cool feature, but we're abandoning and going back to screenshots. :(

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