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…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Power BI World User Group Tour – On-Premise Gateway Update for July 2017 – Featured Data Stories for May and June – Certified Custom Visuals and why it Matters)
After last week there was not any updates worth blogging about, so here is this weeks updates.
Power BI – DAX Measures for Excel based “ % of Column Total “ or “ % of Row Total ”
Where I am currently consulting there was a requirement to create a measure like you can in the Excel pivot tables for the % of Column Total or the % of Row Total. One of the things that you can currently do in Power BI, which I only learnt as part of this requirement is that you can use %…
Power BI – Using Reports Usage Metrics to create Custom Reports & Leverage them for other App Workspaces
In this blog post below I am going to show you how I created my own Custom Usage Metrics Report. NOTE: This has been done using my Report Metrics and not the Dashboard Metrics. NOTE II: I am going to refer to the Reports Usage Metrics as RUM (It has a nice ring to it) And then how I changed…