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…
Review of new Features coming to Power BI by Oct 2018 – From Business Applications Summit
I was fortunate to attend my first ever Business Applications Summit in Seattle. I had the pleasure of sharing an Airbnb with Matt Allington, Phil Seamark and Miguel Escobar, it was great to spend time with these Power BI Legends. I also did meet a lot of people and got to chat with people in the Microsoft Power BI team,…
Creating a Slicer that also contains a DAX Measure
I got an interesting question from Vijay asking, “How do we do a slicer with data count?” This is what Vijay was looking to achieve as shown below and I always enjoy a good challenge. As I always like to do, is to show how I got to the required result. I currently have got data from my website, which…
Creating a DAX Calculated Column for Today, Yesterday and Next Working Day with Variables
Below was a question from the Power BI Community where the output was to have a calculated column in the Date Table, which would have Today for Todays date, Yesterday for Yesterdays Date, and Next Working Day (Being the following Monday) The challenge was that for the “Next Working Day” it should only be for the next Monday and not…
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…
Power BI – One Measure dynamically made up from multiple measures (To show Month Estimate for current Month)
Where I am consulting there was a requirement where for the current month they wanted to display the Current Month Estimate for the current month they were in, and to show the historical sales for all the previous months. This makes some sound business sense, since currently month would typically start off with a lower sales amount, which would increase…
DAX – Filtering Measure to show value when selected or no values selected
I had a requirement where I had a measure that I wanted to be filtered if it’s value was selected then it must show the value. As well as if nothing is selected on the slicer then I also want the value to be displayed. I did this so that when the users are using the report, it will clearly…
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…
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 %…