Category: Power BI
Embed Power BI reports in Power Apps Portal
Inkey, April 8, 20223757 Views
We can now embed Power BI Dashboard/Reports in PowerApps Portal with few easy steps. Prerequisite:- D365 Customer Service organization having a Global user with D365 and Power BI license. ENABLE POWER BI VISUALIZATION In the PowerApps select the environment where you have provisioned the Portal. Go to Your Apps section from Power Apps home page and locate […]
Read morePower BI > How to deal with a Text column having a length of more than 32766 characters.
Inkey, April 1, 202216499 Views
Power BI supports up to 32766 characters of data in a column of TEXT Data Type. What if we have more data stored in the data source? Recently, we came across a requirement where we had to show the content of an email in HTML format in the Power BI report. The report was built […]
Read morePower BI > Using slicer for just highlighting values without filtering
Inkey, December 20, 20218705 Views
The general purpose of slicer visual in Power BI is to filter the data points in the report and view only the filtered information. They provide options (single or multiple) to a user, to click on & filter the visuals on the page. Recently, in one of our projects, we were tasked with a requirement to highlight the bars of a bar chart instead of filtering the visual based on the selected value of the slicer. It sounded odd at first […]
Read morePower BI > Drill-through feature from Card visual
Inkey, November 19, 202116276 Views
In Power BI, a drill–through feature permits the report consumer to peer detailed facts associated with the primary page in the context of a particular data point applied. With drill via Power BI reports, one can create a detailed report page on your data that focuses on a particular applied data point. When the readers want to analyze a particular record or data […]
Read morePower BI > How to filter all the data by TODAY, by default?
Inkey, September 10, 202118554 Views
Ever wondered how we can filter the Power BI report to show only Today’s data by default but at the same time give the flexibility to change the Date filter? The approach we as developers generally take is – create a calculated column IsToday in the Calendar table and have it return “Yes” for today’s […]
Read moreUpdating the SQL DataSource from Power BI using Power Automate Visual
Inkey, August 6, 20216130 Views
Ever thought of manipulating the data in your SQL data source directly from the Power BI Report? If yes, our prayers have been heard (as the use of Power Automate within Power BI is still in Preview as of writing this blog) and will be answered soon (when made GA)! An exciting new feature was […]
Read moreCalculation Groups in Tabular Editor
Inkey, June 11, 20214081 Views
Consider a scenario where your measure’s definitions are the same but the only difference is the base measures. For example, while doing time-related calculations like MTD, YTD, QTD for 3 different calculations/measures, we need to create 3 measures for MTD, 3 measures for YTD, and 3 measures for QTD, resulting in total 9 measures such […]
Read morePower BI > Embed Dashboard/Report in D365 Sales with RLS – 5
Inkey, April 30, 20214453 Views
There are various approaches to embed Power BI Dashboard/Report in D365 Sales, but each approach comes with its own drawbacks and cons that might not complement your requirements. Earlier we have posted blogs that describe the 4 approaches but as I said they have their own pre-requisite and cons. With the advancements of Power BI […]
Read morePower BI > Get Data from OneDrive for Business (Folder as a source)
Inkey, March 12, 202126795 Views
Microsoft Power BI supports many data sources from where we can fetch data and a good Microsoft Power BI Consulting services provider can help, but many times, we need to use some workaround to fetch data from certain data sources. One such case is to get data from a folder on OneDrive. There are no […]
Read morePower BI > How to easily copy Measures from one pbix file to another?
Inkey, February 5, 202145495 Views
Have you ever questioned if it is feasible to move all of the measures from one Power BI PBIX file to any other PBIX file? Imagine you’ve got 2 PBIX files with the same models, i.e all tables used in the measures have the same data structure. If someday you are in this position then […]
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