A BIM file in Power BI holds information about the semantic model – tables, columns, measures, queries, etc. It doesn’t hold any data. You can generate a BIM file using Tabular Editor: Open a semantic model with Tabular Editor and choose “Save As” from the File menu to save a BIM file. There’s a popular… Continue reading: BIM Files in Power BI: You can use them as a data source!
If you’ve been following my series on how to get Planner data (basic Planner, not premium) with Power Automate, you may have noticed that there is not a “completed by” user name or ID field available as a dynamic content card. We can still get the completed-by data using direct references to the JSON output… Continue reading: How to get “completed by” user data for Planner
I went to sign up for a new Microsoft 365 tenant today and ran into an issue when trying to purchase as part of the registration process – every payment method I tried came back as invalid. I quite honestly gave up and decided to come back to it later, but when I came back… Continue reading: Fix for “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” error when updating organization name in Microsoft 365
Power BI has a feature that allows you to add source tables to a report that is referencing a published semantic model. This is a really big deal in data modeling land, because previously if you wanted to add a minor table for some additional use case that you only needed for one report, you… Continue reading: Adding sources to a “thin” report
Power Automate actions produce JSON outputs. Depending on the connector you’re using, you can oftentimes reference these using the built-in dynamic content cards that appear in the UI. But what happens when you want to reference something that’s NOT in the dynamic content card list? Option 1: Use PowerFX to reference values You’d use this… Continue reading: How to parse or extract specific things from Power Automate JSON outputs
If you use Microsoft Planner or Project for the Web, you’re probably familiar with the colored labels you can add to tasks. These can be renamed to whatever you like; they’re used to “flag” tasks. When we pull this task data into Power BI, we lose a lot of the label details. If we’re using… Continue reading: Microsoft Planner / Project for the Web Color Label Values
This started out as a offhand question to ChatGPT just to see what it came up with, but it ended up being WAY more insightful than I expected, so I did a few more to share them. Me, anthropomorphizing? YES ALWAYS. By the way, NEVER ask me “if you were an animal, what would you… Continue reading: If Power Platform apps were animals, what would they be?
Early on when the SharePoint Online List 2.0 connector was released, I did some internet searching to see why you’d use the new connector vs the old connector. It turned up a lot of posts like this, where it was stated that the limit on the 2.0 connector was a maximum of 5000 returned rows.… Continue reading: SharePoint List 2.0 Power BI Connector: Is the Limit 5000 Rows?
It depends on exactly what functionality you need, who your form submitters are, and what licensing you have available to use. Are your form submitters internal organization users or anonymous/external? If your submitters are external and not being explicitly invited with their Microsoft 365 accounts, the answer is going to be Microsoft Forms or Power… Continue reading: Which tool should I use to make a form in Microsoft 365?
I run into this problem more times than not when setting up tables in Dataverse to use with Power BI. Why does this happen? I have no idea. After creating the table, I go to search for it in the Power BI Dataverse connector menu and the table doesn’t show up. Waiting it out doesn’t… Continue reading: New Dataverse table isn’t showing up in Power BI? Here’s the fix.