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A summary of the new features introduced in the September 2018 Power BI update
Posted by Andy Brown on 21 September 2018
The September update of Power BI finally breathes life into report page tooltips, which have been in limbo for a while. You can also copy data from Power BI reports by right-clicking, use some keyboard short-cuts for visual design, apply built-in themes, set fixed-width padding by column example and show categories on the X axis of scatter charts.
A run-through the new features in the August update of Power BI Desktop
Posted by Andy Brown on 14 August 2018
This is a bigger update than most, largely because it includes two major new features emerging from preview (report themes and desktop Q&A), but it's the export to PDF feature which really catches the eye.
A DAX formatter to tidy up your code
Posted by Sam Lowrie on 30 July 2018
Use this handy web based formatter to turn shameful code into neat DAX!
Posted by Sam Lowrie on 30 July 2018
Learn to use DAX variables, and understand how they can be used to break up code. Not true debugging, but better than nothing!
A summary of the new features in the July 2018 update to Power BI Desktop
Posted by Andy Brown on 25 July 2018
This month sees features allowing you to change the appearance of the icons at the top right of each visual, and also to change the appearance of the wallpaper surrounding a report, but otherwise all of the enhancements are fairly minor.
How to show current drilldown filters in Power BI Desktop
Posted by Sam Lowrie on 20 July 2018
Some technique to remind users what levels they chose while using drilldown.
Stop automatic grouping in Power BI Desktop
Posted by Sam Lowrie on 20 July 2018
Read this blog to understand the risk of Power BI's automatic grouping of data, and to learn how to avoid getting caught out!
Disappearing data labels in Power BI Desktop
Posted by Sam Lowrie on 20 July 2018
Ever had a data label vanish for no apparent reason? This blog gives two of the most common reasons why this might happen.
A summary of recent blogs that we've written on bookmarks in Power BI Desktop
Posted by Andy Brown on 18 June 2018
We've created a few blogs giving some ideas for how to use the new Power BI bookmarks features (including dynamic charts and enabling pagination). This blog brings the links together onto a single page.
Using the CROSS FILTER function in Power BI Desktop
Posted by Sam Lowrie on 13 June 2018
Learn about the perils of changing the cross filter direction to "Both", then discover why the CROSS FILTER function is better!
Changes in the June 2018 Update of Power BI Desktop
Posted by Andy Brown on 09 June 2018
There are hardly any changes in this update - the only significant one is that you now sort and filter data within Power BI Desktop itself, rather than having to go into Query Editor.
More suggestions for how to use bookmarks
Posted by Sam Lowrie on 09 June 2018
Another set of examples showing ways in which to use the weird and wonderful bookmarks feature in Power BI Desktop
Splitting long tables of data into different pages (pagination)
Posted by Sam Lowrie on 01 June 2018
This blog shows how you can split rows in tables into different pages, making the data easier to read.
How to create dynamic report titles in Power BI Desktop
Posted by Sam Lowrie on 01 June 2018
How you can combine the use of measures and cards to create dynamic report headers in Power BI Desktop.
Weighted and numeric distribution in Power BI Desktop
Posted by Sam Lowrie on 18 May 2018
Learn to use the SUMMARIZE and CALCULATE functions to produce numeric and weighted distributions.
A summary of new features added to Power BI Desktop in the May 2018 update
Posted by Andy Brown on 14 May 2018
New features introduced into Power BI Desktop in this update include conditional formatting by different fields, the inclusion of filters in drill-through and minor improvements to line and funnel charts.
What is new in the April 2018 Power BI Desktop update
Posted by Andy Brown on 07 April 2018
This month's update allows users to add customisable buttons to a report, incorporates a numeric slicer and includes a few other smaller changes.
Some suggestions for possible uses for bookmarks in Power BI Desktop
Posted by Sam Lowrie on 24 March 2018
This blog gives some suggestions for how you might use the new bookmarks feature in Power BI Desktop.
New features in the March 2018 update of Power BI Desktop
Posted by Andy Brown on 20 March 2018
By far the biggest new feature in the March 2018 update of Power BI Desktop is bookmarks (so big, in fact, that it gets a summary treatment in this blog and a separate, longer blog all to itself).
Learning bookmarks in Power BI Desktop
Posted by Sam Lowrie on 14 March 2018
You can use bookmarks to take your reports to the next level - they take a while to get used to, as this blog shows, but they're worth the hassle!
Hi Andy,
I'm a little confused about Power BI. Looking at your videos, it seems Power BI is a collective term for PowerPivot, Power Query, Power Map, etc.
However, googling Power BI, I see this, where the video shows a completely independent tool aimed at creating dashboards and reports, so can you please clarify what is Power BI? Thanks.
Microsoft haven't helped with their naming convention! They keep changing what Power BI refers to. Here's where we're at now ...
Power BI is a standalone desktop product, previously known as Power BI Desktop. You can use these to create reports, and publish them to the web.
PowerPivot runs within Excel, and allows you to link different data sources together to create a data model, and use this as a basis for pivot tables. PowerPivot used to be one of the Microsoft Power BI tools, but they seem to have quietly dropped this title.
So when Microsoft refer to Power BI, they now refer to creating reports in the standalone Power BI application, perhaps using Power BI Pro, and publishing these to the Internet.
Hope that's clear ... !