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This month's big story is a huge range of improvements to the Q&A feature in Power BI, with more in the preview pipeline. There are also a built-in PowerApps visual, improvements to data profiling in Query Editor and a new template for connecting to datasets.
- Updates to Power BI for October 2019 (this blog)
- The new Q+A visual, and many other Q+A changes
- The PowerApps visual is now part of Power BI
- Data profiling enhancements in Query Editor
- PBIDS files to create data access templates
- Features in Power BI preview as at October 2019
For a cumulative list of all of the updates to Power BI Desktop in the last few years see this blog, or have a look at the Power BI courses that we run.
Posted by Andy Brown on 20 October 2019
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Updates to Power BI for October 2019
Here's what Microsoft have to say about this month's updates:
Here are our more measured words!
And here are the main changes (as always, I've omitted features still in preview, new custom visuals and obscure data connectors):
Feature | Notes |
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Q&A visual | If you liked the Q&A feature before, you will love it now - Microsoft have gone to great lengths to embed it within Power BI. |
PowerApps visual | You can now create PowerApps visuals within your reports using a standard visual. |
Data profiling changes | There are a few improvements to data profiling in Query Editor (the feature which allows you to find anomalies in data that you're loading). |
New PBIDS file format | You can now create a type of report template which prompts users to choose to which data they want to connect. |
Despite my threat in last month's blog I've also retained the traditional list of preview features, because Microsoft have added two useful new announcements to this.