BI-RoundUp – Power BI (User details in Usage Metric Reports, Power BI Report Server Aug Update – Timeline Story Teller Custom Visual)
Here is the weekly BI Roundup of what has been happening in the last week. Power BI – User details in Usage Metric Reports As you can see in the image above, the Power BI team has now incorporated the capability to see which users have been accessing the reports. This is really awesome because it not only allows you…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (On-Premise Gateway Update August – What If Competition – Solution template for Microsoft Dynamics 365)
Here is this week’s BI Round up with the latest weekly information. Power BI – On-Premise Gateway update for August As you can see above in the August update there is now support for IBM Netezza connector the new TLS format 1.1 and 1.2. It is also good to see that they have increased the timeout for gateway requests from…
Power BI – Using Change tables to compare data
Have you ever wanted to compare changes in your data without having to create duplicate copies, as well as make it really simple and easy for users to do some self-service comparisons? In this example I am going to show how I created and then used Change tables to compare data where you can select multiple items to compare. This…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (August Desktop Release – Timeline Story Custom Visual – Help Shape the Future of Power BI – Text Analysis Solution Template using Bing – Azure Activity Log Solution Template – Survey for Mobile Apps – Developer Update for August)
While the week before had nothing to really talk about that is new, this week there is a whole host of updates and great new things to play with so here are the latest details. Power BI – Power BI August Desktop Release Whilst this picture above may not look like much it is incredible with this new “What If”…
Power BI – Using Functions for repeatability and can easily repeat Applied Steps to your data
In the past I did create a blog post where I demonstrated how to get the location of a user based on an IP Address What I did forget to elaborate on and what really makes Power BI even more powerful is how easy it is to create and use a function. So this is the goal of my blog…
Power BI – How Disconnected Slicers can enrich & transform your analytics data
I have been using disconnected slicers for quite some time. What I love about them is that you can use them so that a user does not have to go to individual pages to view different measures or values, but can easily click on the disconnected slicer, which will then change the measure or values for them. I find this…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Service & Mobile update July 2017 – Community Blog Highlights – Trust Center)
With the imminent monthly release happening for Power BI, here is this week’s BI-RoundUp.
Power BI – Dynamically changing the Title based on your selection
Would it not be nice if your Title changed based on what you selected on your slicer? In this example below I am going to show you how I used a Country slicer to dynamically change the title of my card based on my slicer selections. This was really useful because the Country Slicer has so many options I am…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Happy 2nd Birthday) – Azure Analysis Services (Web Designer)
Here is the weekly BI-RoundUp with the latest news. Power BI – Happy 2nd Birthday I cannot believe that it has already been 2 years since Power BI was launched. It is amazing to see how many new features and capabilities that keeps on happening. In the past year they have released 153 new features and updates. That is amazing…
Power BI – Using the Custom Data Connector to Connect to Strava
I was very excited when the news came out that there now was a Data Connector SDK Developer Preview, and I started letting customers and people know that there now is the new functionality to literally get data from almost any source. Then I saw a blog post by Kaper De Jonge where he was trying to get the Data…