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…
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…
Quick Tip Adding Search to the Default Slicer in my Power BI Report
I always am amazed that there is still so much to learn with Power BI. This week’s blog post is short and sweet, I am going to demonstrate how to add searching to the Default Slicer in my Power BI Report. The main reason that I required this, is because currently (14 Aug 2018) the persistent filters only works with…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Desktop Release for August – New App Workspace Experience – Power BI World Tour) – Analysis Services (White Paper for AS Scalability)
Here is my weekly BI-RoundUp, and as I thought when I started putting this together yesterday that there would be a release of Power BI Desktop, which there is and not only that an updated App Workspace experience! Enjoy the read! Power BI – Desktop Release for August Well that was pretty quick to get another release of Power BI…
Convert from Seconds to Minutes with a DAX Measure
I was recently doing some consulting work for a customer and they had a column which contained seconds and whilst this is useful it is better to have it shown as Minutes and Seconds, which is easier to relate and compare. Below I will show you how I came up with the DAX measure which converts it from seconds to…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (July Desktop Update – Admin APIs & PowerShell for Power BI – Multi Geo Support for Power BI Premium – Power BI & SharePoint – On-Premise Gateway Update for July – Developer Update for July)
Since the Business Applications Summit there has been a whole host of updates to Power BI, so please find all the details below. NOTE: This is once again a longer read with just so many updates that have come through. And it is well worth the read. Power BI – July Desktop Update As with every month I will highlight…
Unleash row level security patterns in Microsoft Power BI – Business Applications Summit
I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the Business Applications Summit in Seattle this year. I had an incredible time, met a lot of people that I have looked up to, read their blogs and watched their video’s. As well as made some new friends. One of the things that stood out for me was how easy it…