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…
Power BI InfoGraphic Update – Sep 2018
It has been a few months since I have updated my Power BI InfoGraphic and with the speed at which this all changes and updates I have always had a challenge to keep it up to date. The following items have been added with links to more details: Composite Models Buttons Aggregations Comments in Dashboards New App Workspaces Geographic Distribution…
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…
DAX – Getting the Start Date of the following Week
I was recently doing some work for a customer where they wanted to compare their date to the start date of the following week. They also had a requirement to persist the data to the dataset. I thought that this would be a good challenge to use DAX with a calculated column. I most certainly could do this using the…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Sep Update for Power BI Desktop – Dashboard Comments – Community Contribution to PowerShell Cmdlets – Power BI PowerShell Cmdlets available in Azure Cloud Shell)
Welcome to another week of my Power BI Round Up. And as expected there is another massive Power BI Desktop Update. Power BI – September Update for Power BI Desktop As always I am going to over the new features and highlight what I think is really relevant in terms of what has been released. Reporting With the added support…