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This is the biggest single update for some time, introducing the new modelling view, tooltip styling, single-select slicers and much more besides.
- The March 2019 Update to Power BI Desktop
- A new modelling view to change your Power BI life!
- Changing the appearance of tooltips
- Single-select slicers
- Viewing date components in the field list (this blog)
- Automatic heat maps and improvements to map formatting
- Improved selection pane
- New DAX functions
- Lots of other miscellaneous changes
- Power BI features waiting in preview, as of March 2019
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 20 March 2019
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Viewing date components in the field list
Another very welcome (and overdue) change - you can now see the parts of a date hierarchy in the field list:
The symbol shown appears to the left of any date field automatically.
When you click on the symbol above, you see the date hierarchy:
Just one more click to go ...
When you click on this symbol you can choose which parts of a hierarchy to show:
You can choose whether to show the year, quarter, month and/or day for this field.
In the chart below I just ticked the Quarter level of the hierarchy:
This chart just shows the number of films by quarter (disregarding the fact that they were released in different years).
Unless you want to create time-intelligence functions (for example comparing this year's sales with the previous year's), there's ever less reason now to add your own calendar to a data model.
- The March 2019 Update to Power BI Desktop
- A new modelling view to change your Power BI life!
- Changing the appearance of tooltips
- Single-select slicers
- Viewing date components in the field list (this blog)
- Automatic heat maps and improvements to map formatting
- Improved selection pane
- New DAX functions
- Lots of other miscellaneous changes
- Power BI features waiting in preview, as of March 2019