The purpose of this post is to provide the information I wish I had when I started creating content on YouTube (and this blog). These are things I’ve picked up here and there over the course of a couple of years of trial and error and various content channels – not to say I know… Continue reading: Getting Started in Content Creation
Creating tasks in a system that allows interaction with said tasks (e.g. checking a box to complete) can be really tedious and time-consuming – this makes it a perfect target for AI automation! My issue is that most of the AI tools designed for this across all the systems I’ve tried are currently half-baked, meaning… Continue reading: Using AI to Create Tasks
If you’ve tried out the “visualize this list” functionality in Microsoft / SharePoint lists, you may have noticed that they’re not stored in the typical Power BI workspaces. You’re not prompted to choose a workspace to put the report in, and are instead dropped to a URL in Power BI that starts with “https://app.powerbi.com/sharepointlist/groups/”. If… Continue reading: Where are “Visualize this List” models and reports stored in Power BI?
What’s new and interesting in the world of Power Platform? Power BI From the Power BI Core Visuals vision board: Sidenote, the vision board linked above is also a Power BI report itself – @Power BI Park has a “reverse-engineer” tutorial here. In other Power BI / Fabric news, org apps were also released recently, allowing multiple… Continue reading: December 2024 Power Platform News
I used Notion, and I liked it. There… I said it. Here’s why. If you’re not familiar with Notion, but you ARE familiar with Microsoft products, Notion vaguely resembles a combination of Microsoft Loop and SharePoint Lists. This is a strangely emotional topic for me, because my career is based primarily around Microsoft 365, but… Continue reading: Notion vs Microsoft Loop & Microsoft Lists: A Comparison of Features
Microsoft 365 has two different types of groups that can be used to control access to resources: Security groups (formerly called Azure Active Directory, also now called Entra ID) and Microsoft 365 groups. Structurally, these behave very differently – for example, a Microsoft 365 group comes with a shared mailbox and SharePoint site, and does… Continue reading: Group Types in Microsoft 365
Date tables are one of my favorite things in Power BI, right up there with field parameters. Particularly the ability to make all of my date filtering relative is one of the things I really love about them – it can really reduce the maintenance for reports to have measures and filters “stick” to current… Continue reading: Date Tables in Power BI
YES you can use incremental refresh on SharePoint files in Power BI! The trick is, the date column you use needs to be something OUTSIDE the file, such as the “created date” column in the SharePoint library. What that means, is, this is only really useful for SharePoint folder sources, where Power BI is grabbing… Continue reading: Can you use incremental refresh on SharePoint file sources in Power BI?
The matrix visual in Power BI is a bit fiddly to work with, particularly when you’re working with text-based data. It likes to auto-summarize any text fields you add, and typically you want a little more control over the header groupings than it wants to give. Here’s an example of what the task data looks… Continue reading: How to Make Your Matrix Behave
In the video tutorials for how to send a basic HTML table from Power BI with Power Automate and similar for styled tables, a question came up about what to do if the query to the Power BI dataset returned blank for a given user – if it has no rows to show, it will… Continue reading: Sending HTML Table Emails from Power BI with Power Automate – Handling Blanks