BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Power BI Desktop June update – Subscribe others to Email Subscriptions – Developer Community for May, Service & Mobile Update)
Here is my weekly BI-RoundUp, and once again the awesome people from the Microsoft Power BI Team have released some additional gifts. Power BI Desktop June Update Here is another month of big updates to the Power BI Desktop. Reporting The first item is now based on your contrast settings, this will be applied to the Power BI Desktop file…
Using the Power BI API with PowerShell scripts – Refreshing your dataset
I know when I started trying to use the Power BI APIs, I was unsure of what I was doing, and how I could get it working. Not only that, but I could see that as with building any cloud platform the APIs have to be there before they can put the skin on and make it easy to use….
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Help Improve Power BI – Gateway Update for May)
Fortunately, there has not been a lot of activity in the Power BI space, which gives me a chance to catch up on some reading (Beginning DAX with Power BI by Phil Seamark) and to have a bit of a rest. Here are the updates for this week. Help Improve Power BI The Power BI Team has a survey out, in…
Power Query Pattern – Adding Spaces in Text within your data with Camel Case
In this week’s blog post, I created this Power Query Pattern, which I created to add in spaces for CamelCase text within a column. To get this to work for you, all that you do is need to make one change to the code. Below is what the data looked like Then I created the following Power Query Pattern below….
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Dashboard Theming – Incremental Refresh)
Another week has flown by and there are once again more Power BI Updates, which I really enjoy. But at the same time there is so much content and blog posts that at times it is a bit of a struggle to keep up with what everyone is doing. And with all of that I am still really enjoying being…
Power Query – Renaming Multiple Columns
I was working on a dataset where I wanted to change multiple column names using one step and not having to change them manually. Since there were over 30 columns this would be really time consuming. Below I detail how to complete this in the Power Query Editor, which will replace all the column names for me in one step….
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Power BI Update May 2018 – Custom Visuals in Excel – Service & Mobile Update – ArcGIS Online & Plus Subscriptions )
Here is my weekly BI-RoundUp and it is great to see that the monthly update for Power BI is here, as well as some other details of the new items. Power BI – Update for May 2018 As always here are the updates for Power BI Reporting As shown above the first item is that you now can have conditional…
DAX – Concatenating Values only when values are selected
What I am doing with the DAX below is to only show the concatenation of values if a value is filtered. If nothing is filtered (Selected) then display text to show that nothing has been selected, otherwise display in a concatenation what has been selected. NOTE: If you individually have to select each item, it is still being filtered so…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (On-Premise Gateway Update – Developer Community Update)
Here is this week’s BI-RoundUp. I am hopeful that by this time next week the latest version of Power BI Desktop will be released! Power BI – On-Premise Gateway Update By far the biggest news is the capability to use Custom Data Connectors in the Personal Versions of the On-Premise Data Gateway. The Power BI Team did indicate in the…
Reactivated Players DAX Pattern
I had a requirement where my customer was looking to gain some insights into their data relating to reactivated players. The definition used for a reactivated player is a player that has previously played but has not played for a certain number of days. The player then comes back and plays again. So, by this definition the player is reactivated….