How to complete granular deployment of Power BI Desktop changes to the Power BI Service (Using PPU)
Now that we have got Power BI Premium per User (PPU), this opens a whole host of new capabilities. In this blog post I am going to demonstrate how to make a granular deployment where I will create a new column in my City table, and only deploy those changes. What this means is that by deploying only the column…
How to get an App feature on the Power BI Home page and in users Apps
There have been some recent updates to the Power BI Service that allow for certified Apps to be features in the Home section. Along with this, there is now the capability for your App to feature first when users view the Apps that they have access to in the Power BI Service. In this blog post I am going to…
How to get multiple slicer items filtered using the DAX TREATAS function
Quite often I wanted to get the data a slicer quickly and easily where multiple items are selected. I then wanted to use the slicer items to filter my measure. The first thing that I did was to manually hard code the values to make sure that I was getting the correct values with the following measure below. EVALUATE ROW…
Power Query – Remove all characters before delimiter & after delimiter
Below is the Power Query Syntax where I wanted to move the characters before the delimiter. I must give credit to the Power BI Community who got me going with how to solve this. For reference: Solved: Rename all column headers removing part before to … – Microsoft Power BI Community This is an example of what my column name…
Configure OLS in Power BI using Tabular Editor to limit access to non-financial measures
What Object Level Security (OLS) allows me to do, is to define which tables or columns users can or cannot see. My example which I am going to detail below will show you how I will restrict a user from viewing sales data. The same user will be able to see Quantity amounts. This becomes really powerful because not all…
Power Query – Continuous Week on Week Comparison
Below is the Power Query syntax to allow for Week-on-Week comparison over multiple years. I have seen in the past Week-on-Week comparisons but one of the challenges is what happens when it overlaps years. Especially at the start of a year like it is now Feb 2021, the users want to compare week-on-week for the past 3 months. My challenge…
Changing the User Account in Excel when connecting to Power BI Premium/Per User or Azure Analysis Services
Recently I have been working where I have multiple accounts, and I wanted to test the different access to the accounts when connecting via Excel. I could not find any blog posts or videos on how to do this. In my blog post I detail how to achieve this. Connecting to the dataset using Excel The method below will work…
Setting the Default Format String with Calculation Groups in Power BI
Recently I was working on a customer’s data and one thing that was missed was when something was not selected the Calculation Group did not return any default Format String. Below is how I solved this, with the tricky part being formatting of the measure to be displayed correctly. This follows on from my previous blog posts with regards to…
How to create DirectQuery (Composite) using an existing Power BI Dataset and a local Excel file
If you are looking how to use DirectQuery (Composite) models in Power BI I show you how to do this with an existing Power BI dataset from the Power BI Service and then importing an Excel file from SharePoint. In my working example I already have got a dataset which contains the Power BI Audit Log data. I want to…
How to refresh Excel files faster in Power BI
I was recently getting an error when refreshing an Excel file that was stored in SharePoint online. This got me thinking what the issue is and is there a way to improve it and YES there is as detailed below. When I investigated this further, I found that my 17kb Excel file was using at least 616kb of data when…