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Preview data is now available in the dataset details page
Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . The dataset details page helps you explore, monitor, and leverage datasets. When you click on a dataset in the data hub, a workspace, or other place in Power BI, the details page for that dataset opens. The dataset details page enables you to perform a number of actions. The actions available vary from user to user depending on their permissions on the data item, and thus not all actions are available for all users. In what ways are dataset details helpful? Shows you metadata about the dataset, including description, endorsement, ... Read More
Power BI June 2022 Feature Summary

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Welcome to the June 2022 update. We are excited to announce the general availability of the new Format Pane, error bars and information protection updates, table navigation improvements, Connect to datamarts and Power BI Data Storytelling features. There is more to explore, please continue to read on. Reporting Modeling Data connectivity and preparation Service Embedded Analytics Developers Visualizations Other Check out the video below for this month’s summary: New Format Pane The new format pane is now generally available! This has also been shipped to the PBI Service. Thank ... Read More
Updates to full report attachments for email subscriptions in Premium Gen2
Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . With email subscriptions, you have the option to include a full report as a PDF or PowerPoint attachment if the report is saved in a Premium capacity or Premium Per User (PPU) workspace. There are several updates coming to email subscriptions that use full report attachments that we want to make you aware of. Extending full report attachments to 50 pages – We’re increasing the maximum length of reports you can attach to email subscriptions from 20 pages to 50 pages. Whether you’re getting a PDF or PowerPoint copy ... Read More
Enhanced refresh with the Power BI REST API is now generally available
Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We’re excited to move Enhanced refresh with the Power BI REST API (formerly asynchronous refresh) from public preview to general availability in Power BI Premium, Power BI Premium per User, and Power BI Embedded. As noted in the public preview announcement, this feature not only eliminates the need for synchronous client connections to perform a refresh, but also unlocks enterprise-grade refresh capabilities. It’s a significant improvement over the standard refresh REST API in Power BI. By using the enhanced refresh REST API, you can leverage built in features for ... Read More
Unlocking new self-service BI scenarios with ExecuteQueries support in Power Automate
Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . As part of our GA work for the ExecuteQueries REST API, we delivered a new Power Automate action to run queries against Power BI datasets. This action delivers a straightforward low-code/no-code experience to BI users who want to streamline repetitive, mundane tasks and processes. You can conveniently select the desired workspace and dataset in the user interface, paste your DAX query into the query textbox, and automate away! That’s it! You don’t need to know anything about the REST API. You don’t even need to know DAX to get ... Read More
Power BI Report Server May 2022 Feature Summary
Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We’re excited to bring you a new version of Power BI Report Server this Spring! With the May 2022 update, we have a variety of new enhancements, including Dynamic format strings support, multi row card selection, canvas zoom, updated slicer defaults and many more. Please continue to read on! Here’s a complete list of the updates: Reporting Other Dynamic format strings now supported for all chart elements Reports with AS data sources can provide dynamic format strings, or cell-level formatting, to customize the formatting of their data. Reports with ... Read More
Announcing general availability of the ExecuteQueries REST API
Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are happy to announce that the ExecuteQueries REST API is now GA. By using this REST API, you can query datasets in Power BI from practically any modern environment on any platform, as long as you can authenticate with Azure Active Directory (AAD) and construct a Web request. The query functionality is comparable to XMLA read access, yet avoids dependencies on Analysis Services client libraries, requires no connection to XMLA endpoints, and works in Premium workspaces as well as in ordinary workspaces. Just make sure your workspace is ... Read More
Announcing general availability of automatic aggregations
Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Less than a year ago, we announced support for While it is easy to enable automatic aggregations on the Dataset Settings page, we learned during the public preview period that customers want more insights and control over the automatic aggregations training process. For this reason, we are introducing the following improvement with the GA release: Additional information about requirements and unsupported configurations in the user interface. For example, your dataset might use a data source enabled for single sign-on (SSO) in which case the UI will let you know ... Read More
Composite models on SQL Server Analysis Services
Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are excited to announce you can create composite Power BI models by connecting to SQL Server 2022 Analysis Services tabular models! SQL Server 2022 is available now for public preview and when you upgrade or deploy tabular models to SQL Server 2022 Analysis Services this DirectQuery connection becomes available in Power BI Desktop starting with May 2022 release. Existing or new tabular models hosted on SQL Server 2022 Analysis Services can be joined with other data in Power BI Desktop to create a composite model. The ability to create ... Read More
Democratize enterprise analytics with Microsoft Power BI
Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . It’s that time of year again—welcome back to Microsoft Build. Microsoft Build represents the ultimate developer event. A hundred thousand developers from across the world gather for three days with their peers to learn, engage, and collaborate on the latest innovations and tools from Microsoft. With over three million active developers on Microsoft Power BI creating incredible data experiences every day, we want to use this event to show you the truly exciting innovations we are bringing to Power BI. These announcements include: Datamart in Power BI Metrics in ... Read More
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