Category: Improve the Experience
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How to find which visual generated the query in Log Analytics?
Model metadata in Power BI is getting more and more accessable and there are a fair amount of tool that we can use to work with it. Report metadata on...
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Hidden features of Analyze in Excel - Part 3 - Focus
In the first two parts (part 1 and part 2) of the blog we explored the Show details functionality of a Pivot table in Excel. Now we look at another...
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Hidden features of Analyze in Excel - Part 2 - Give me all the data
This blog series is about the hidden features in Analyze in Excel. There are lot of tiny details which can help the adoption of Power BI for Excel users. In...
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Hidden features of Analyze in Excel - Part 1 - Show me the details
This blog series is about the hidden features in Analyze in Excel. There are lot of tiny details which can help the adoption of Power BI for Excel users. In...
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Organizational Data Types - Supercharge your Excel users' productivity
Categories: Get to the Data, Improve the ExperienceData Types has been part of Excel for some time now, but a lot of people is not familiar with it. You can find them under the Data tab. You...
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Dynamic Comparison values using Field Parameters
Categories: Analytics Edge, Improve the ExperienceI have been reading a lot of good feedback of the Power BI May 2022 update especially and the introduction of field parameters. Do not want to go into details...
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Slicers or Filters - Comprehensive Guide
Categories: Analytics Edge, Improve the ExperienceSlicer and filter were around in Power BI for a long time now, and plenty of blog posts were created comparing them to each other. Because these features constantly get...
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Referential Integrity violations in a Data model, what are those?
Categories: Improve the ExperienceWhat is referential integrity and why you need to make sure you have it. Learn how you can find and solve issues with it.
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Custom Actions from Best Practice Analyzer recommendations
Categories: Analytics Edge, Improve the ExperienceTurn Best Practice Analyzer recommendations into Custom Actions in Tabular Editor. Improve your data models with a few clicks.
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Difference between creating a dataset for yourself or creating for others
Categories: Big Picture, Improve the ExperienceWhen I began working with Power BI, all the datasets I created were intended to support the reports I was building. However, as more of my colleagues started embracing Power...
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Ways to provide support for adoption?
Categories: Improve the ExperienceAs I am doing project handovers and discussions with business users about their understanding what Power BI is capable of, I made some interesting observations. I think this will be...
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What are the options when a Power BI report is slow? - Power BI Performance Guide
This blog post want to help how to understand the reasons and give you a starting point for improvements in Power BI report performance. Won't cover all the options in-depth...
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Semi geocoded data in Power BI Maps
Categories: Improve the ExperienceRecently encountered a dataset that only partially had latitude and longitude information and observed some strange behaviour that I was unaware before. So I decided I do a little exploration...
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Why understanding administration matters for customer experience
Categories: Improve the ExperienceI recently appear in Data Lounge talking about Power BI Administration. We went through with Alejandro on the most important setting from the tenant settings. There were some settings where...
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Quick Idea: Let the consumers change the report design
Categories: Improve the ExperienceIn the September 2019 version of Power BI new dynamic conditional formatting options appeared. So I thought it's time to talk about the possibilities that open up once all the...
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Updated: Using the Visual Headers
Categories: Improve the ExperienceI updated the post, because I left out some important aspects. Anyone who is a regular user of Power BI knows about the Visual Headers. It gives us a lot...
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Pinning to dashboard - How it works
Categories: Improve the ExperienceWhen we create dashboards from reports, it is a quite an easy task. Just use the Pin Visuals icon. But under the hood this has some cool functionality that might...