We built a Fabric App demo. Here’s what it would take to make it production-grade, and why a demo isn’t there yet A Fabric App demo can be built fast, especially with AI assistance. A working page that reads a semantic model, renders like a polished web app and does something a report cannot, that
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The hard part of Power BI finance writeback wasn’t the writeback We set out to build a finance commentary writeback report in Power BI using Fabric translytical task flows. The interaction sounds trivial: select a finance row, type an explanation, click a button, write the comment to a Fabric SQL Database, and show it back
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We built a Fabric App that lets finance edit the forecast, and the hard part was not the UI Most write-ups about Microsoft Fabric Apps stop at the same place: here is a data app, here is a chart, look how it resembles a web application instead of a report. That is the easy 80%.
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Replicating a Power BI report in a Fabric App: a practical guide to the parts that fight back Microsoft Fabric Apps let you build a data-driven application on top of the same semantic model that feeds your Power BI reports. One of the first things people want to try is the obvious one: take a
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A UK manufacturer rang us in February asking for a Power BI Health Check. Their executive dashboard had stopped refreshing inside its scheduled window. An in-house team had built the model two years earlier, everyone who needed to had signed it off, and it ran cleanly until the dataset crossed some invisible threshold and something
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A finance director called us last autumn. They had eight Power BI developers across two teams, a Premium capacity, and 247 published reports. Refresh failures were a weekly conversation. The company had officially deprecated two reports, but more than eighty users still opened them each month. The CFO had asked, reasonably, why the BI investment
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Designing responsive apps in Power Apps can be frustrating especially when resizing, reordering, and aligning elements on different devices becomes a never-ending formula chase. But what if there was a simpler way? Power Apps layout containers offer a clean, efficient way to create responsive designs without writing a single formula. Enter layout containers the secret
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In today’s fast-moving data landscape, Power BI theming and secure external sharing are becoming more important than ever. As businesses scale their analytics efforts, they also need reports that look professional, stay consistent, and remain easy to share securely. Because of this, Microsoft Fabric now introduces two major innovations: an improved Power BI theme designer
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Building a robust data model is a critical step when developing cloud-based applications in Microsoft Power Pages. While a visually appealing website is important, the real power lies in how your data is structured, stored, and connected. In this guide, we’ll walk through how to: Create a data model for Power Pages Automatically generate tables
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Power BI Organizational Themes make it easier to standardize report branding across your organization. Instead of manually sharing JSON theme files through email or SharePoint, administrators can centrally manage themes in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, ensuring every report follows the same visual style and branding guidelines. Fortunately, Microsoft introduced a powerful new preview feature
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