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…
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 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…
You can now view the Power BI REST API calls via the Audit log
When I review the Power BI Audit logs, I am always finding either new operations or new additions into the audit log. In my example below I found a way to quickly and easily identify Power BI REST API calls that are being used. If you have not read my prior blog post where I detail how to store the…
How to enable dataset sizes larger than 10GB for Power BI Premium or Power BI Premium Per User
By default, when using Power BI Premium or Power BI Premium per user the dataset size is set to 10GB. I have had the wonderful experience of refreshing my dataset and getting the following error: In the steps below I will show you how to change this setting to allow for larger dataset sizes. Finding the dataset GUID The first…
Updated Look for External Guest Users in Power BI (And a way to see the Navigation Pane)
I am fortunate to work across multiple Power BI Tenants, in some cases I have a local account and in other instances I work as an External Guest user. The first thing that I noticed when logging in is that there is an updated look for External Users who have had Apps, Reports or Dashboards. I have found that this…