Power BI RoundUp – (Nov 2018 Desktop release – AI Capabilities for Power BI)
Well this month has sure been a busy month with a whole host of additional updates for Power BI. I personally am really looking forward to the next few months to better understand how all of this will evolve and assist customers on leveraging their data assets. Power BI – Nov 2018 Desktop This was yet another massive update to…
Power Query – A function to remove spaces within Text values
UPDATE: 19 Nov 2018 With the recent announcement of dataflows in the Power BI Service, I see more people will be looking to better understand and leverage dataflows by using the M language which is available in Power BI Desktop, Power Apps and Microsoft Flow. I had a great response to this blog post, and both Ted and Daniil had…
Power BI RoundUp with SQL Pass updates – Dataflows – Paginated Reports (SSRS) – Premium Metrics App with Data Flows & Paginated Metrics – Paginated Reports in Mobile App – Mobile & Service Update for Oct – Bonus features coming to Power BI Desktop
As expected this week with SQL Pass, there has been a whole host of new capabilities and features in Power BI, so please see my roundup below with the relevant links below. And even though there is a lot of announcements here, we are still waiting for the update to Power BI Desktop!! Power BI Dataflows One of the biggest…
DAX Measure – Getting Difference between 2 values in a table
I had a requirement where the customer wanted the difference between 2 values in a table. The challenge here was that because the values are already part of the table, I had to find a way to get the unique value for each item. This would then allow me to calculate each value separately and then calculate the difference. This…
Power BI RoundUp – Webinar on Advanced Data Prep – Data Flows in Power BI – On-Premise Data Gateway Update – New Power BI Regions in Azure – General Availability of Custom & Certified Data Connectors
Here is my weekly Power BI related round up, I hope that you find this information relevant and keeps you up to date with everything that is happening with regards to Power BI. Power BI – Webinar on Advanced Data Prep with Dataflows https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Webinars-and-Video-Gallery/10-23-18-Webinar-Advanced-data-prep-with-Power-BI-data-flows/m-p/534100 There is an upcoming Webinar on 13 November 2018, where Anton Fritz will introduce you to…
Running Power BI Reports or Dashboards in Fullscreen without the Buttons
I had seen some questions in the Power BI Community when asking how to run reports or dashboards in a browser screen so that they cannot see they buttons on the bottom left hand side. In my example I am going to use my existing dashboard that I want to display where it does not show anything from Power BI,…
Quick Tips for Aggregations & Composite Models in Power BI
I have been working with a customer on the implementation of Aggregations with Composite Models in Power BI and I have found that there are a few useful tips to assist you with getting it up and running. Tip 1 – Always ensure that queries start off as DirectQuery When starting to bring in the composite models the first thing…
Power BI Gateway – How to remove a Gateway Instance from the Gateway Cluster
I recently was troubleshooting a performance issue for a customer where their LiveConnection was slow when connecting to an On-Premise SSAS Tabular server via the On-Premise Data Gateway. One of the things that I had to do was to remove an existing On-Premise Data Gateway from a cluster, so that I can then move the Gateway onto another server. NOTE:…
Power BI – Modifying the Colours in the Options of the Visual Headers
I was recently consulting at a customer and I was looking to better understand if there was a way to disable the exporting of Underlying data, but whilst investigating this I came across the formatting pane and as shown below I could modify the menu in the Options for Visual Headers which I detail below. The first step is to…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Service & Mobile Update for July & August 2018 – User Research Panel – On-Premise Gateway Update for Sep – Webinar on Power BI Dashboard Comments)
Here is this weekly BI-RoundUp where I will detail what updates there have been in the past week. Power BI – Service & Mobile Update for July & August 2018 In the past two months there has been a lot of updates to the Power BI Service and the Power BI Mobile App. All the details are below with links…