How to add External (B2B) users’ access to Power BI reports
I was recently doing some testing and when I went to share a Power BI report with an external (B2B) user I could not initially find out how to do this. NOTE: I had already created my External (B2B) users, you can follow this guide below if you still need to create the external (B2B) users: Distribute content to external…
Power BI Error – Culture Name ‘en-XX” is not valid or is not supported
I was recently working with an overseas customer and when I tried to open the PBIX file I got the following error “Culture Name ‘en-IL” is not valid or is not supported” This is the error as shown below. When I saw the error, I thought that this might be related to the different language settings between my PC and…
Creating a group with all values (Even if not in the data) in Power BI
Recently I was working on a client’s requirement where they wanted to group the data into groups! Typically, when grouping data together it will have multiple ranges to group the data into. NOTE: As far as I am aware what I am going to explain and do below is not currently supported. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BACKUP OF…
Using an IN Condition for multiple values in Power Query (Power BI)
In the example I did not want to specify all the country names one row at a time. This not only takes a long time, but if I had to then make updates it could be painful too. The requirement was for certain countries to have their names and the rest be grouped into “Other Countries” I found this useful…
ALM Toolkit would not open (When using External Tools from Power BI Desktop)
I recently got a new laptop and I had to install all my programs again. Everything was going as expected, except when I went to use ALM Toolkit, the program would not open. I would click on ALM Toolkit, I would see it open for a few seconds in task manager and then it would disappear. That led me down…
How to get Power BI Row Level Security (RLS) Role users, details and export to CSV
In a previous tweet on twitter, I had elaborated on how I had extracted the RLS Roles with the details and then exported it into a CSV file which then allowed the organization to keep an audit of the RLS for the dataset. In the steps below I will show you how I did this. In my previous blog post…
Exporting a Power BI Visual data to a CSV File in SharePoint
In this blog post I am going to demonstrate how to use the new Power Automate Flow to extract data from a DAX measure into a SharePoint CSV file. I got this idea after reading the blog post from the Microsoft Power BI Team: Unlocking new self-service BI scenarios with ExecuteQueries support in Power Automate | Microsoft Power BI Blog…
How Power BI Field Parameters works under the hoods
There has been a lot of talk (on Twitter) with regards to the new Field Parameters in Power BI. Marco & Alberto have written a great blog post going into all the details as to how field parameters work, what the query looks and a lot more. I would highly suggest you read it here: Fields parameters in Power BI…
DAX – Getting Distinct Count on Dimension table for Offices that have had Sales
I had a challenge when I was looking to get the Distinct Count of Offices only for the Offices that had Sales. The reason for this measure is to get the % out of all Offices who had Sales. Below is how I solved this. What I did first was to create the following measure, the issue was that this…
Known Issues Power BI Report with Alerting
I was actually working on my own version of the Known Issues Power BI report, when the Power BI team released their blog post New Power BI Known Issue page | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI In the steps below I am going to show you the report I created, and then how I configured it to…