Apps in Power BI Today I will show you how to improve the user experience by setting up Apps in Power BI Service. I do think it’s a very confusing name, and perhaps Power BI could have named it something else, but here we are, and Apps, or whatever you call it, are awesome! It’s
Embedding a Stream video in Power BI service Today I will be showing you how to embed a stream video in the power bi service. I had an idea to do videos on how to navigate new reports, that I will send to my users once I’ve deployed a new report, or updated an existing
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In this post, you will learn how to use DAX and conditional formatting for dynamically changing colours in visuals to highlight the highest and lowest values. Power BI developers have added Conditional Formatting to nearly all their features and this truly ups the game for all Front-end report developers. These details enhance the user experience
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Power BI Cleaning and Transforming Data Pivot and unpivot columns in Power BI is very useful functionality for structuring data that cannot be used for reporting as-is. The first blog post on data preparation covered the basics of cleaning and transforming your datasets. This blog post, will go into more advanced cleaning and transformation steps
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Total Value in a Stacked Column Chart I have recently run into the frustration that I cannot display a data label for the Total Value for a stacked column chart in Power BI. Data labels are only displayed for each category of my stacked chart, however, no data label is displayed for the Total Value
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Welcome to our first of the Power BI Tips series. Over the past two weeks, I have been asked the same question by people who have just started the awesome journey towards revolutionizing their reporting experience through Power BI: “Instead of the default alphabetical sorting, how do I sort the months in my charts by
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So far I’ve given you a very small glimpse of this marvelous thing called Power BI, and the old (IT dependent) vs. the new (Self-service BI) approaches. Let’s quickly paint a scenario: You wake up one morning and you have a beautiful red Ferrari parked in your garage (Oh yeah!!)… but you decide to walk
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