Power BI Weekly
Issue #281 - 22nd October 2024
Welcome to the 281st edition of Power BI Weekly! Only the one announcement since the last edition, which is that the Admin monitoring workspace is now available in US government cloud tenants (GCC, GCC High, DoD). So straight onto the highlighted articles this week: Reza Rad has described how to Import email attachments into Power BI and Fabric using Power Query, Bas Dohmen has walked us through the New Power BI List Slicer, and Antriksh Sharma has reminded us about the gotchas around Sort-By columns in the article Why DAX is returning 100%.
🛠️ Data Prep
- On the RADACAD YouTube channel, Reza Rad (@RADACAD_COM) talks about Add Column VS Transform in Power Query in Power BI and Fabric and describes how to Import email attachments into Power BI and Fabric using Power Query
🧩 Data Modeling
- Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) walks through Finding The Columns Touched By A DAX Query
- Antriksh Sharma (@AntrikshShar) writes about Why DAX is returning 100%
- Pat Mahoney (@mahoneypa) describes how to Quickly review VPAX files with this model reviewer tool and explains how to Generate a VPAX file from your Fabric/Power BI semantic model
- Reid Havens (@HavensBI) talks about Semantic Model Ideation for Power BI (Leslie Welch)
- Ignacio Barrau (@ignacho_07) covers [SimplePBI] Documentar modelo semantico automáticamente [Spanish]
- On the Access Analytic blog, Melina Louzada walks through Mastering Dynamic Measure Formatting in Power BI | Part 2: Dynamic Cell Colour Formatting
- ,, Parul Sagar (@parulsagar) shares the Power BI October 2024 Update: Dynamic Format Strings for Measures
📊 Report Authoring and Interactivity
- On the Excel Basement YouTube channel, Rahim Zulfiqar Ali (@rahimzulfiqar) describes How to Create Top N Slicers Selection in Microsoft Power BI?
- On the Power BI community blog, Tharun Kumar Ravikrindhi describes How to Delete Bookmarks in Bulk in Power BI
- Bas Dohmen (@HowToPowerBI) shares a Hot Take on the New Power BI List Slicer
- Reid Havens (@HavensBI) talks about More Variance Comparisons to Stacked Column Charts
- Chandeep Chhabra (@chandeep2786) describes how to Ditch the Boring Charts - Try These Creative Budget vs Actual Visuals
- Hafeez Jimoh (@jimohhafeezco) talks about Introduction to Data Visualization in Power BI and covers Data Visualization in Power BI
🚀 Deployment, Security and Operations
- On the Power BI blog, Bogdan Blaga (@MSPowerBI) announces that Admin monitoring workspace is now available in US government cloud tenants (GCC, GCC High, DoD)
- On the phData blog, Akshay Venkataramana explains How To Implement Page-Level Security In Power BI
- Marc Lelijveld (@MarcLelijveld) writes about Full Impact Analysis in Power BI, Export and Analyze in Excel
- Kim Leblanc (@lecfomasque) writes Tirer profit d’une licence Fabric à faible coût, c’est possible [French]
🌐 General
- Miguel Félix covers Atualização Power BI setembro e outubro 2024 [Portuguese]
- On the Learning Science YouTube channel, Learning Science (@learn_scitech) explains How to use Microsoft Copilot in Power BI?