Power BI Weekly
Issue #314 - 1st July 2025
A couple of official updates this week – Microsoft have announced a series of special events, learning opportunities and contests to Celebrate as Power BI Turns 10. We've also been told there are now Expanded entry points, access options, and functionality in Explore, which means the Explore feature is now available by default to users with view permissions, allowing more business users to perform ad hoc analysis on their data. The update also makes Explore more powerful: you can now launch it from both report visuals and Copilot generated visuals, and create visual calculations within your Explore analysis.
Now onto this week's highlighted content, Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen has taken us through how to Become a Guardian of the Star Schema, helping us create create clean, high performance data models. Valerie Junk has shown how to use numeric range parameters for What if analysis in Power BI, Jon Stjernegaard Vöge has written an article Exploring User Input Options for Translytical Task Flows (Write-back in Fabric & Power BI). And finally, Carmel Eve has published a short talk: What is a Data Lakehouse?
🧩 Data Modeling
- On the Microsoft Fabric Café YouTube channel, Mehrdad Abdollahi presents #FabricCoffee with Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen - Become a Guardian of the Star Schema
- On the RADACAD blog, Reza Rad (@RADACAD_COM) writes about What Fields to Hide in Your Power BI Solution?
- On the Power BI community blog, Ajay Babu Inturi describes How to Organize Measures Effectively in Power BI
- Valerie Junk (@porcubi) talks about What if analysis in Power BI – Numeric Range Parameter
- Darren Gosbell (@darrengosbell) announces DAX Studio v3.3.1 Release
📊 Report Authoring and Interactivity
- On the Power BI blog, Tori Pinheiro (@MSPowerBI) announces Expanded entry points, access options, and functionality in Explore
- Shivanshu Bisht describes How to Track Project Tasks Over Months | Power BI
- Chandeep Chhabra (@chandeep2786) explains how to Build an Invoice and Payment Tracking Dashboard in Power BI
- On the Learning Science YouTube channel, Learning Science (@learn_scitech) explains How to filter or search multiple column values using a single Slicer in Power BI?
- On the Data Bear blog, Boniface Muchendu (@DataBearLTD) covers Power BI Slicer Validation with DAX, writes about Sankey Diagram in Power BI: Visualize Data Flows Easily, describes Power BI SVG Icons: Easy Guide to Customize and Use and writes about Excel Integration in Power BI: A Complete Guide for All Methods
- Jon Stjernegaard Vöge describes Exploring User Input Options for Translytical Task Flows (Write-back in Fabric & Power BI)
- Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) discusses Data Validation In Power BI Copilot AI Instructions
🚀 Deployment, Security and Operations
- On the Power BI community blog, Anmol Malviya writes about Power BI Enhancements You Need to Know - Part 6: Power BI Desktop Developer Mode
- On the Data Bear blog, Boniface Muchendu (@DataBearLTD) blogs about Power BI Publish to Web: What It Is and Security Update
- Paul Turley (@paul_turley) walks through Using Tableau with Microsoft Fabric & RLS
🌐 General
- On the Power BI blog, Kim Manis (@kimmanis) announces Celebrate with us as Power BI Turns 10
- Carmel Eve (@carmel_eve) has published a short talk: What is a Data Lakehouse?