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
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!
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
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?
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.