Author: Amanda Cofsky

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We love hearing feedback from the Power BI community and today we have another quarterly survey to keep improving Power BI with your feedback. In the past, our survey has focused on Power BI Desktop, but this quarter we are expanding it to cover the Power BI service as well. This survey helps us to understand what we're doing well, and what we can change to make your experience even better. This is a great opportunity to provide feedback directly to the product team and influence our development directly. In addition, if you ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . This month we have major updates across all areas of Power BI Desktop. Along with many other reporting features, we have our biggest update to conditional formatting in while, the ability to format any fields, including strings and dates, by a different numeric field in the model. Drillthrough also gets a major update this month with the ability to carry all filters through to the destination page. We are also enabling enterprise level scalability through incremental data refresh. Here’s the complete list of May updates: Reporting Analytics Power BI ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . This month, on top of our normal of visual & data connector improvements, we have two exciting features that lets report consumers interact with reports in a new way. The Q&A Explorer enables report consumers to ask their own questions about the data, and buttons let you add interactive elements on your reports. Don’t forget you can now get Power BI Desktop from the Windows Store if you’re running Windows 10! Here’s the complete list of April updates: Reporting Analytics Custom visuals Data connectivity For a summary of the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . There are two themes for this month’s Power BI Desktop update. The first is a focus on some of your major asks including multi-selecting data points across multiple charts and syncing slicer values across multiple pages of your report. We also have a major update to our SAP HANA connector. Our second theme is a focus on performance improvements across three different areas of our product. Don’t forget you can now get Power BI Desktop from the Windows Store if you’re on Windows 10! Here’s the complete list of ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Happy new year to everyone! We are kicking off the new year with an update to Power BI Desktop focused on incremental improvements to popular features you are already using, including automatic date hierarchy, data label and axis formatting, and our relative date slicer. The ability to hide pages is another big update that gives you much more flexibility over how users consume your reports. Don’t forget you can now get Power BI Desktop from the Windows Store if you’re on Windows 10! Here’s the complete list of January ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . This month we are very excited to integrate our Q&A experience into the reporting canvas, offering a whole new way to create your visuals. We are also updating our bookmarking preview with new features that provide you much more flexibility. A highly requested feature, the ability to drill to filter other visuals on the page, is also coming out this month. You can take advantage of several new connectors and major updates to existing ones. Don’t forget you can now get Power BI Desktop from the Windows Store if ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . This month conditional formatting gets a major update with the ability to control the color based on rules. If you have a slow data source, we now have report options that help limit the number of queries that are sent to the source. Finally, we are also adding several formatting features, including cell alignment for table and matrix, and precise control over the order of overlapping charts on your report. Don’t forget you can now get Power BI Desktop from the Windows Store if you’re on Windows 10! Here’s ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Our June release is full of new reporting features, new data connectors, accessibility features, and more. A few highlights of the June release are the addition of data bars to tables and matrices, markers for line charts, new map themes, and a horizontal image slicer. In addition, we are continuing to improve the “Add Column from Example” feature in the Query Editor. Here’s the complete list of June updates: Reporting Data connectivity Query editing For a summary of the major updates, you can watch the following video: This month ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . This month has many updates to previously released features, including an upgrade to tables to add the great features our new matrix, two new quick measures, and a new way to create bins. You’ll also now be able to take advantage of a new slicer type that lets you filter your reports down to relative dates, such as last 3 months. We are also very excited to announce report level measures for live connections to Analysis Services tabular models & Power BI service datasets. Continue reading to learn about all these ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . In the April update of Power BI Desktop, we released the ability to connect to datasets in the Power BI service. This feature allows you to create new reports off existing datasets you've already published to the cloud. You can leverage this feature to better collaborate and reduce duplicate efforts across your team. Model once, create many reports from that model. Many Power BI users tell us that data cleaning and data prep tasks take up 70% of their time when creating a new report. Now, you can do ... Read More