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The September 2021 update to Power BI introduces even more features for customising buttons, a Power Automate connector and line chart series labels, along with a few other small changes.
- September 2021 Power BI Update
- You can use shapes and icons as buttons
- Running Power Automate flows from Power BI reports (this blog)
- You can now label line chart series
- Suppressing totals on waterfall charts
- Changes to DAX
- Pictorial histograms using the Graphomate custom visual
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Posted by Andy Brown on 28 September 2021
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Running Power Automate flows from Power BI reports
You can now call Power Automate flows from within your Power BI reports:

Start by adding a Power BI Automate connector visual to your report.
After adding a Power Automate visual, you need to edit it:

Click on the visual, then choose Edit from the visual header menu to edit it.
You can now create or choose a Power Automate flow:

Create a new flow or choose an existing one.
For example, you could use this to refresh a dataset or to export data to an Excel workbook.
- September 2021 Power BI Update
- You can use shapes and icons as buttons
- Running Power Automate flows from Power BI reports (this blog)
- You can now label line chart series
- Suppressing totals on waterfall charts
- Changes to DAX
- Pictorial histograms using the Graphomate custom visual