Power BI Weekly
Issue #295 - 11th February 2025
Quite a short one this week, and no official announcements from the Power BI team. So straight into the featured articles. My colleague Paul has shared an article talking about Power BI Images That Pop: A Guide to Intuitive, Easy-to-Maintain Reports, which does a deep dive into how to get the most out of using imagery in your Power BI reports, explaining the different image-embedding methods and a data model design that enables effective storage of image references. Do check it out! Elsewhere this week, Bernat Agulló Roselló is back with an ever-detailed article around Making a Report Bilingual: The Full Story (Part 1). Probably the most comprehensive write-up on this topic, so well worth your time if you have this requirement. Finally, Gilbert Quevauvilliers has described how to Use a Microsoft Fabric Notebook to get all Power BI Licenses, building upon a previous article detailing how to retrieve information about users in your Entra tenant. I can imagine this being quite useful for you admins out there!
🛠️ Data Prep
- Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) explains how to Improve Power Query Performance On CSV Files Containing Date Columns
- Ignacio Barrau (@ignacho_07) covers [PowerQuery] Múltiples reemplazos estilo switch o case [Spanish]
- On the Data Bear blog, Boniface Muchendu (@DataBearLTD) writes about Mastering Time Zone Conversion in Power BI and describes Bulk Write Back to SQL from Power BI
🧩 Data Modeling
- On the Power BI community blog, Anmol Malviya explains How to Use the NETWORKDAYS DAX Function in Power BI
- Parul Sagar (@parulsagar) writes about Unlocking Insights with INDEX and OFFSET Functions in Power BI
- On the Learning Science YouTube channel, Learning Science (@learn_scitech) blogs about Power BI Tips: How to Convert Dates into Various Month/Year Formats in Power BI (Data Model Level)
- Kim Leblanc (@lecfomasque) covers Guide pratique sur les nouveaux calculs sur visuels dans Power BI [French]
📊 Report Authoring and Interactivity
- On the endjin blog, Paul Waller (@Crashbangwaller) discusses Power BI Images That Pop: A Guide to Intuitive, Easy-to-Maintain Reports
- On the Data Bear blog, Boniface Muchendu (@DataBearLTD) describes Mastering Dynamic Filtering in Power BI
🚀 Deployment, Security and Operations
- On the Power BI community blog, Anmol Malviya writes about Embedding Power BI Report in Web Pages
- Valerie Junk (@porcubi) talks about Deployment Pipeline in Power BI
- Gilbert Quevauvilliers (@GilbertQue) describes Using a Microsoft Fabric Notebook to get all Power BI Licenses
- Dániel Gábor Patkós writes From Version Chaos to CI/CD: Power BI Version Control with GitHub
🌐 General
- Bernat Agulló Roselló (@AgulloBernat) covers Making a Report Bilingual: The Full Story (Part 1)
- On the Power BI community blog, Pradip V S and Vivienne Vereen write about Power BI - Powered by Copilot
- Valerie Junk (@porcubi) explains How to Create a Power BI Way of Working
- Parul Sagar (@parulsagar) describes How Power BI Can Transform Your Product Bundling and Sales Insights