A summary of the new features introduced in the September 2018 Power BI update
Part seven of an eight-part series of blogs

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.

  1. Changes introduced in the September 2018 Power BI update
  2. Report page tooltips
  3. Copying values and records
  4. Keyboard short-cuts in Power BI Desktop
  5. Built-in themes
  6. Column From Examples now allows for text padding
  7. Improvements to dot (scatter) charts (this blog)
  8. Features awaiting in preview as of September 2018

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 21 September 2018

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Improvements to dot (scatter) charts

Microsoft have made a "substantial update" to scatter charts, allowing you to show categories on the X axis:

Comparing sales by centre type

I'm not sure how substantial this improvement actually is - but then, I don't work with scatter charts much.

For anyone who wants to see the gubbins behind this, here are my field well selections:

Field well settings

The main change is to remove any Details selection, and show a text field in the X Axis section.

 

Sorry - I may be missing the point, but I can't get that excited about this change, which is why it comes last in my list!

  1. Changes introduced in the September 2018 Power BI update
  2. Report page tooltips
  3. Copying values and records
  4. Keyboard short-cuts in Power BI Desktop
  5. Built-in themes
  6. Column From Examples now allows for text padding
  7. Improvements to dot (scatter) charts (this blog)
  8. Features awaiting in preview as of September 2018
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