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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.
- Changes introduced in the September 2018 Power BI update (this blog)
- Report page tooltips
- Copying values and records
- Keyboard short-cuts in Power BI Desktop
- Built-in themes
- Column From Examples now allows for text padding
- Improvements to dot (scatter) charts
- 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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Changes introduced in the September 2018 Power BI update
For me, this update is dominated by the roll-out of report page tooltips, which have been in preview now for a few months, but there are a few other nice changes too.
Microsoft also seemed to have solved a bug, whereby when you started typing in the text for a visual's Title property the cursor lost focus.
Here are the changes for this month which we think will impact our clients (you can see the full list here):
| Change | Notes |
|---|---|
| Report page tooltips | You can show the contents of a separate tooltip page when you linger over an item in a report. |
| Copying data | You can now right-click to copy an individual value, or selected rows, columns or cells. |
| Keyboard short-cuts | To improve accessibility Microsoft have provided some short-cut keys when designing reports |
| Built-in themes | There are now 7 built-in themes that you can apply to any report. |
| Text padding | You can now automatically apply fixed-length text padding using Columns From Example. |
| Dot chart improvements | You can now specify a category field to be the X axis for adot (scatter) chart. |
I've also included a separate list of the features waiting in preview.
- Changes introduced in the September 2018 Power BI update (this blog)
- Report page tooltips
- Copying values and records
- Keyboard short-cuts in Power BI Desktop
- Built-in themes
- Column From Examples now allows for text padding
- Improvements to dot (scatter) charts
- Features awaiting in preview as of September 2018