Blogs from Wise Owl on Updates in Power BI Desktop

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.

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).

New features in the February 2018 update of Power BI Desktop

Posted by Andy Brown on 15 February 2018

You can now search for formatting properties, have slicers which work across pages and create quick measures, among other new features.

New features in the January 2018 update of Power BI Desktop

Posted by Andy Brown on 11 January 2018

This month introduces a smorgasbord of small but useful updates, including the ability to hide pages, colour data labels and to set the anchor (from) date for a relative date slicer.

New features in the December 2017 update of Power BI Desktop

Posted by Andy Brown on 04 January 2018

Field descriptions anyone? This is a fairly minor update, although we like responsive horizontal slicers, and there are some exciting things coming up in preview mode.

A summary of the new features of Power BI Desktop introduced in November 2017

Posted by Andy Brown on 15 November 2017

There's not too much to whet the appetite here: most of the changes are extensions to existing features, such as conditional formatting and column-by-example.

New features in the October 2017 update of Power BI Desktop

Posted by Andy Brown on 09 October 2017

On the minus side, the changes introduced in this update (mainly a selection pane and spotlight facility) are tiny, but on the plus side there is a huge new feature (bookmarks) waiting in the wings in preview mode.

A summary of the changes for the September 2017 update to Power BI Desktop

Posted by Andy Brown on 12 September 2017

The September 2017 Power BI Desktop update introduces ribbon charts, a feature to explain the increase or decrease for any chart point and a drill-through feature allowing you to temporarily switch to a summary page.

Changes made in August 2017 to Power BI Desktop

Posted by Andy Brown on 14 August 2017

A quiet month, after the frenetic activity of the July update, sees lots of small changes to matrices, tables and charts, but no single big update.

The July 2017 Power BI Desktop updates, including new table and matrix visuals

Posted by Andy Brown on 13 July 2017

This is a bigger update than usual, with the highlight undoubtedly being the official roll-out of the much-trailed new table and matrix visuals.

The most important changes included in the June 2017 Power BI Desktop update

Posted by Andy Brown on 26 June 2017

This update includes lots of nice features, such as line markers and the ability to change font typefaces, as well as many more changes!

The most important changes made for the May 2017 Power BI Desktop update

Posted by Andy Brown on 17 May 2017

The May 2017 Power BI Update brings in a couple of nice new query transforms and some new chart features, but the big changes are still in preview mode.

A list of the updates made in the April 2017 update to Power BI Desktop

Posted by Andy Brown on 28 April 2017

This update includes some nice new features - for example, creating columns by example and changing chart axis titles. Read this blog for a full list!

The main new features in the March 2017 update of Power BI Desktop

Posted by Andy Brown on 24 March 2017

This is a small update, although the new matrix tool which is currently in preview mode will be a big change.

Updates made in February 2017 to Power BI Desktop.

Posted by Andy Brown on 16 February 2017

A summary of the most important changes for Power BI Desktop users in the February 2017 update.

Power BI Desktop - January 2017 update

Posted by Andy Brown on 08 February 2017

A summary of the (small) changes in Microsoft's January 2017 Power BI Desktop update.

A summary of the Power BI Desktop Updates going back to November 2016

Posted by Andy Brown on 19 December 2016

This blog differs from the Microsoft update summary in two ways: it omits preview and obscure changes, but goes into more detail (and gives practical examples) on mainstream updates.

The main new features for BI workers in the November 2016 Power BI update

Posted by Andy Brown on 19 December 2016

A summary of the new features in the November 2016 Power BI Update, omitting things which are still only in preview.