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A run-through the new features in the August update of Power BI Desktop

Part six of a nine-part series of blogs

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.

For a cumulative list of all of the updates to Power BI Desktop in the last few year or two, see this blog, or have a look at the Power BI courses that we run.

Posted by Andy Brown on 14 August 2018

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Bookmark groups

It's a sign of success that a feature becomes so popular that you need some way of categorising all its members! So welcome bookmark groups, which allow you to categorise your bookmarks:

I've got 7 bookmarks here: 3 to do with environments, and 4 to do with regions. I need some way of dividing them up into groups ...

You can create a group by selecting a bookmark, then selecting the ... button next to it:

Choose the bookmark menu.

You can then assign this bookmark to a group:

This menu will only be selectable if you've got the bookmark selected.

You can then rename the group in a fairly obvious way:

Here I'm renaming my new group Group1.

You can drag bookmarks into groups, just like for editing hierarchies:

Here I'm adding the WaterPage bookmark to the Environments group.

One final tip - it's quicker to use the Ctrl key to select multiple bookmarks for grouping:

Select more than one bookmark, then click on the ... symbol to the right of any one of the bookmarks you have selected to create a new group into which to put them.

You can expand and collapse groups:

Much better - I can collapse and expand each group to see its contents.

Simple - but nice!

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