Microsoft Power BI offers an extensive range of charts and graphs designed to visually represent data, facilitating insightful analysis for making informed business decisions. Occasionally, stakeholders prefer a broad overview of their performance and target achievements, categorized into percentage ranges, without delving into precise figures. While Power BI lacks a built-in linear gauge visual akin… Continue reading Creating the Linear Gauge to Check the Status of Sales in Power BI
Microsoft Power BI continues to be a cornerstone in the BI community, with its relentless commitment to updates catering to evolving business needs. The latest eagerly awaited enhancements in Column, Bar, and Ribbon Charts provide users unparalleled flexibility to tailor their visualizations. Enhancement in Stacked Column/Bar Charts: In recent updates we get the following options… Continue reading Enhancements in Column, Bar and Ribbon Charts in Power BI
Microsoft is always keen to bring new updates to its reporting service Power BI. Because, it has a wide user base and makes it easy for the report viewers and data analysts to easily dive into their data and analyze it. This also makes the report developers happy because they find it easy to show… Continue reading Enhancements in the New Card Visual in Power BI
The February 2024 update marks a transformative shift in DAX in Power BI writing with the introduction of visual calculations! Visual calculations entail defining and executing DAX calculations directly within a visual. These calculations have the flexibility to reference any data within the visual, be it columns, measures, or other visual calculations. This innovative approach… Continue reading Revolutionizing DAX with the Magic of Visual Calculation in Power BI
In the dynamic landscape of business analytics, tracking and comparing sales or profit variances across different categories or countries is essential. While Power BI has been a go-to tool for visualizing data, the conventional methods of representing variances were limited. In this technical blog, we will explore how to leverage the reference line feature in… Continue reading Enhancing Column chart for Variance Analysis in Power BI: A Step-by-Step Guide
Recently, for Power BI, we encountered a requirement where we have Delivery data, and we want Slicer which gives a range of “Delivery Per Customer”(Count of Deliveries) that seamlessly integrates with all visuals in the dashboard. Specifically, a scenario where, upon selecting a date range, the “Delivery Per Customer” slicer dynamically operates on the filtered… Continue reading Implementing Dynamic Cascading Slicer To Filter the Data
In Power BI, providing page security and role-based access to users traditionally involves creating different workspaces or different audiences in one app workspace. However, an innovative approach is to achieve this using measures, eliminating the need for additional workspaces and audiences. In this blog post, we will explore a real-time requirement where we need to… Continue reading Dynamic page navigation in Power BI based as per User Role
Greetings, BI enthusiasts! When working with Power BI reports and handling numerical data with multiple hierarchies, the Matrix visual is often the go-to choice. It seamlessly accommodates hierarchical data with proper modeling, allowing the use of measures as rows. However, what if you need to display measures as rows with specified indentations, sorting, and font… Continue reading Achieving Hierarchical Representation for Measures in Power BI Matrix Visual: A Workaround
In our previous blog, we delved into the inner workings of Deployment Pipelines. Now, we shift our focus towards a crucial aspect of Power BI development – integrating Git with workspaces in Power BI Service, especially those that play a pivotal role in your Deployment Pipelines. Integrating Git with Power BI Workspaces Our journey now… Continue reading Part 3: Git Integration for Content Management
In our previous blog post, we delved into Power BI Projects and Git integration, catering to the needs of developers with Pro Capacity. Today, we venture further into the fascinating world of Power BI Deployment Pipelines. Our focus is on providing you with insights into how to seamlessly handle content within your development lifecycle. Unveiling… Continue reading Part 2: Streamlining Power BI Deployment Pipelines
In a much-anticipated move, Microsoft has unveiled Git Integration in Power BI for developers who work with Power BI Desktop Projects. This ground-breaking feature which is in preview, promises to revolutionize the way developers streamline development, source control, and collaboration within their Power BI projects. In this technical blog, we’ll delve into the intricacies of… Continue reading Part 1: Git Integration with Power BI
Consumerism is at an all-time high, especially after the economic lull in 2020. Since 2021, e-commerce sales have grown exponentially, to the point that in 2024 we are looking at a forecasted 6.2 trillion US dollars in e-commerce sales. This puts pressure on retail companies to optimize their data collection and analytics to respond to… Continue reading The Benefits of Power BI for Decision-Making
In today’s business landscape, organizations are constantly seeking ways to maximize growth while minimizing operational costs. Sharing essential information and insights with management or higher-level teams is crucial for decision-making. However, investing in Pro user or Premium per-user licenses for a limited number of users who only need access to view a specific Power BI… Continue reading Efficiently Sharing and Synchronizing Power BI Reports within Your Organization: A Cost-effective Approach
Imagine going to groceries and being forced by your mother to negotiate the best price for a variety of things from different vendors; it sounds tiresome, doesn’t it? What is the easier way to resolve this? You will visit a supermarket, where you can simply find everything you need under one roof. Data professionals face… Continue reading Microsoft Fabric – The One-Stop Shopping Mall
In the earlier blog post, we stated how to identify referenced measures or columns, i.e. whether they are used in other measures or not. If you haven’t visited the blog post, please click here. It is a very useful blog, especially in the big Power BI models. But this won’t be helpful when we would… Continue reading Power BI > How to identify referenced Measures and Columns in Model – II
Most of the time, while updating the existing model, it’s hard to identify which measures or columns are being used in report visualization and which are referring to other measures or columns. Many times, while developing a report, there are frequent changes in the requirements and we need to modify/update the data model accordingly, which… Continue reading Power BI > How to identify referenced Measures and Columns in Model – I
We can now embed Power BI Dashboard/Reports in PowerApps Portal with few easy steps. Prerequisite:- D365 Customer Service organization having a Global user with D365 and Power BI license. ENABLE POWER BI VISUALIZATION In the PowerApps select the environment where you have provisioned the Portal. Go to Your Apps section from Power Apps home page and locate… Continue reading Embed Power BI reports in Power Apps Portal
Power BI supports up to 32766 characters of data in a column of TEXT Data Type. What if we have more data stored in the data source? Recently, we came across a requirement where we had to show the content of an email in HTML format in the Power BI report. The report was built… Continue reading Power BI > How to deal with a Text column having a length of more than 32766 characters.
The general purpose of slicer visual in Power BI is to filter the data points in the report and view only the filtered information. They provide options (single or multiple) to a user, to click on & filter the visuals on the page. Recently, in one of our projects, we were tasked with a requirement to highlight the bars of a bar chart instead of filtering the visual based on the selected value of the slicer. It sounded odd at first… Continue reading Power BI > Using slicer for just highlighting values without filtering
In Power BI, a drill–through feature permits the report consumer to peer detailed facts associated with the primary page in the context of a particular data point applied. With drill via Power BI reports, one can create a detailed report page on your data that focuses on a particular applied data point. When the readers want to analyze a particular record or data… Continue reading Power BI > Drill-through feature from Card visual
Ever wondered how we can filter the Power BI report to show only Today’s data by default but at the same time give the flexibility to change the Date filter? The approach we as developers generally take is – create a calculated column IsToday in the Calendar table and have it return “Yes” for today’s… Continue reading Power BI > How to filter all the data by TODAY, by default?
Ever thought of manipulating the data in your SQL data source directly from the Power BI Report? If yes, our prayers have been heard (as the use of Power Automate within Power BI is still in Preview as of writing this blog) and will be answered soon (when made GA)! An exciting new feature was… Continue reading Updating the SQL DataSource from Power BI using Power Automate Visual
Consider a scenario where your measure’s definitions are the same but the only difference is the base measures. For example, while doing time-related calculations like MTD, YTD, QTD for 3 different calculations/measures, we need to create 3 measures for MTD, 3 measures for YTD, and 3 measures for QTD, resulting in total 9 measures such… Continue reading Calculation Groups in Tabular Editor
There are various approaches to embed Power BI Dashboard/Report in D365 Sales, but each approach comes with its own drawbacks and cons that might not complement your requirements. Earlier we have posted blogs that describe the 4 approaches but as I said they have their own pre-requisite and cons. With the advancements of Power BI… Continue reading Power BI > Embed Dashboard/Report in D365 Sales with RLS – 5
Microsoft Power BI supports many data sources from where we can fetch data and a good Microsoft Power BI Consulting services provider can help, but many times, we need to use some workaround to fetch data from certain data sources. One such case is to get data from a folder on OneDrive. There are no… Continue reading Power BI > Get Data from OneDrive for Business (Folder as a source)
Have you ever questioned if it is feasible to move all of the measures from one Power BI PBIX file to any other PBIX file? Imagine you’ve got 2 PBIX files with the same models, i.e all tables used in the measures have the same data structure. If someday you are in this position then… Continue reading Power BI > How to easily copy Measures from one pbix file to another?
Power BI has different DAX functions using which we can have our results in many different ways. As far as the result is concerned, it doesn’t matter which road we take to reach the destination but, we would always strive to get the most optimal solution. We often need bi-directional relationships to let the filters… Continue reading Power BI > USERELATIONSHIP Vs. CROSSFILTER
Recently, we had come across an issue which we thought is very common and is easily resolvable. But, we were highly mistaken. We had several reports which were using a shared Power BI Dataset. We accidentally deleted the dataset on Power BI Service. Naturally, it deleted all the other reports pointing to this dataset. The… Continue reading Power BI > How to make PBI Reports pointing to deleted Power BI Dataset working again?
We have often encountered requirements that need the date and time columns to change according to the timezones of the user. Conversion according to the timezone requires to add/subtract the offset hours to the DateTime field in UTC. As this is something that is not available in Power BI out-of-box, we have found an approach… Continue reading Power BI > How to handle multiple time zones?
While preparing our Data Model, we are often tasked to change the column names of the tables which are brought into Power BI using GetData. It is very time consuming if we change the names of each column of all the tables manually but it is equally important. The time & efforts seem futile when… Continue reading Power BI > How to efficiently change the column names?
Power BI has advanced incredibly in the last few years. Microsoft has been working their fingers to the bone to make Power BI simple to use and easily adaptable. But at times, it gives us hard time to achieve even the simplest of requirements, or at least we think so. Recently, I faced one such… Continue reading Power BI > Use of ISINSCOPE()
In our previous blog we have learnt embedding of PowerApps in Power BI report. Now, in this blog we’ll learn to embed PowerBI tiles in PowerApps. Let’s look at the steps required to add Power BI tiles in Power Apps. In PowerApps click on Insert tab. Click on Charts and then select Power BI tile… Continue reading Embedding PowerBI Tile in PowerApps
Lets check out integration of PowerApps and Power BI in this blog. PowerApps and Power BI are pretty awesome tools by themselves. By combining them, we can potentially, achieve a lot more. By putting the PowerApp within the Power BI itself, we can give the user the ability to put in the data that he… Continue reading PowerApps And PowerBI Integration
As there are various approaches to embed Power BI Dashboard/Report in D365 Sales, we might often use a different approach to achieve it only to realize that it doesn’t suit our cost or requirements. We have posted blogs describing the other 3 approaches but they have their own limitations regarding licenses or restriction of data… Continue reading Power BI > Embed Dashboard/Report in D365 Sales with RLS – 4
We discovered several approaches to embed Power BI Dashboard/Report in D365 Sales, but each approach came with certain pre-requisites or cons that might not complement our requirements. Blogs posted earlier regarding the other 2 approaches either need Power BI Pro License for each user or it doesn’t filter out data according to the users and… Continue reading Power BI > Embed Dashboard/Report in D365 Sales with RLS – 3
There are various approaches to share Power BI dashboard or report in D365 Sales and every approach has it’s own merits & demerits. Our previous blog describes an approach that doesn’t work if we need to restrict data from the users. I recommend you read through the previous blog first, to get the context. Now,… Continue reading Power BI > Embed Dashboard/Report in D365 Sales with RLS – 2
Microsoft Power BI enables its global users to share the Power BI dashboard or report by embedding them in various applications and sites. Likely, we can also share them in our D365 Sales using Publish to Web or Embed URL. There are many ways to achieve this, but not all approaches fulfill the requirement to… Continue reading Power BI > Embed Dashboard/Report in D365 Sales with RLS – 1
Power BI has advanced a lot since the last few years. We all know, that now, Power BI REST API provides service endpoints for various functionalities such as embedding, administration, interaction with report & user resources. While working on the scenario of maintaining different environments for Power BI reports such as “DEV”, “TEST” and “PROD”,… Continue reading Power BI > REST API – RebindReport issue
Nowadays, Power BI is used by many large organizations to collect information that helps their organization grow in the market. The increasing use of Power BI in such organizations, demands, mostly a development team that takes care of the reports’ development & deployment from A to Z. This demands the team to follow best practices… Continue reading Power BI > Development Cycle – DEV, TEST & PROD environments
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