Power BI InfoGraphic Update – Sep 2018
It has been a few months since I have updated my Power BI InfoGraphic and with the speed at which this all changes and updates I have always had a challenge to keep it up to date. The following items have been added with links to more details: Composite Models Buttons Aggregations Comments in Dashboards New App Workspaces Geographic Distribution…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Service & Mobile Update for July & August 2018 – User Research Panel – On-Premise Gateway Update for Sep – Webinar on Power BI Dashboard Comments)
Here is this weekly BI-RoundUp where I will detail what updates there have been in the past week. Power BI – Service & Mobile Update for July & August 2018 In the past two months there has been a lot of updates to the Power BI Service and the Power BI Mobile App. All the details are below with links…
DAX – Getting the Start Date of the following Week
I was recently doing some work for a customer where they wanted to compare their date to the start date of the following week. They also had a requirement to persist the data to the dataset. I thought that this would be a good challenge to use DAX with a calculated column. I most certainly could do this using the…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Sep Update for Power BI Desktop – Dashboard Comments – Community Contribution to PowerShell Cmdlets – Power BI PowerShell Cmdlets available in Azure Cloud Shell)
Welcome to another week of my Power BI Round Up. And as expected there is another massive Power BI Desktop Update. Power BI – September Update for Power BI Desktop As always I am going to over the new features and highlight what I think is really relevant in terms of what has been released. Reporting With the added support…
Power BI Default Slicer Selection
I have recently had some discussions with regards on how to enable the default selection of a slicer which will always keep the slicer selection on the current month. As is currently stands there is no out of the box way to change the slicer on a selection where it shows the actual date for each day. This is because…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (New Monitoring Capabilities for Power BI Premium – Developer Update for August – Webinar on New Power BI Tools)
Welcome to another week of the BI-RoundUp. Power BI – New Monitoring Capabilities for Power BI Premium As you can see above there now is an App which you can get for Free from the App Source which will get all your capacity metrics which you can then use to better understand how you and your users are using your…
What runs under the cover when I open Power BI Desktop
I am always interested in what happens under the covers when I open Power BI Desktop. So I did a little digging and I got the inspiration from Macro Russo when he did his Webinar as well as presented at the Queensland Power BI User Group on “My Power BI report is slow: what should I do?” What happens when…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (On-Premise Data Gateway August)
This week has been rather quiet, but I have a feeling that if Power BI Desktop gets released next week, we will be back at it and have a whole host of updates. Power BI – On-premise Data Gateway Update for August In this month’s update there is additional improvements for Custom Data connectors. And it also has got the…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Report Server Update – Aug 2018 – Ask a Question Generally Available – URL Filter Improvements – Python Episode 1 – Multi-Geo Support for Power BI Embedded)
Here is the weekly roundup, and as always the Power BI team has been very busy over their summer releasing some incredible features. Power BI – Report Server Update Aug 2018 I am not going to go through all of the updates to the Power BI Report Server, due to almost all of the functionality already being released in Power…
Persistent Filters (Reset to Default) now works with Custom Visuals in the Power BI Service
I was pleasantly surprised today whilst working on an older Power BI Report which had a few Chiclet slicers, and when I changed the selection of the Chiclet slicer I got the option highlighted “Reset to default” I was actually so excited that I created this blog post on the way home from work, I simply could not wait until…