Power BI Weekly
Issue #316 - 15th July 2025
Another short edition this week, with no announcements. Straight onto the highlighted articles, then. First of all, Bernat Agulló Roselló is back with an article describing how to Copy visuals between reports and prepare a report to make it bilingual, demoing how Tabular Editor, C# and the PBIP/PBIR file formats can work together to achieve something not possible in native Power BI Desktop. Elsewhere, Reid Havens has spoken about Everybody's Favorite Power BI & Fabric Topic: Licensing with guest Stephanie Bruno, providing a thorough summary of the relationship between user & capacity licences, as well as ways of calculating costs. Finally, Gilbert Quevauvilliers has started a new series on Power BI Load Testing with the article Why Should I Complete Power BI Performance Load Testing & Initial Setup. Outside of Power BI and Fabric, but very topical if you've been working with Lakehouses in Fabric or Direct Lake mode in Power BI, my colleague Carmel has published a video talking about How does Delta Lake work?
🛠️ Data Prep
- Laura Graham-Brown (@Laura_GB) writes about Paginated Reports – Power Query as a Source
- Chandeep Chhabra (@chandeep2786) presents Geert v/s Chandeep | Who will win? Power Query Tricks Battle 4
- Parul Sagar (@parulsagar) shares some Power Query Techniques That Work: From Raw Moodle Logs to Clean Reports
🧩 Data Modeling
- On the Power BI community blog, Ajay Babu Inturi covers Unlocking the Power of Calculation Group - Beyond Time Intelligence
- Valerie Junk (@porcubi) talks about Choosing a Storage Mode in Power BI
- Kim Leblanc (@lecfomasque) covers Modèle sémantique Power BI: Guide complet de la connexion en direct [French]
📊 Report Authoring and Interactivity
- Jon Stjernegaard Vöge covers Fabric Data Warehouse as write-back destination for Translytical Task Flows & User Data Functions
- On the Learning Science YouTube channel, Learning Science (@learn_scitech) explains how to Dynamically Change the measure for a Sparkline in Power BI
- Bernat Agulló Roselló (@AgulloBernat) describes how to Copy visuals between reports and prepare a report to make it bilingual
- Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) writes about Power BI Copilot, AI Instructions And Dealing With Ambiguity
🚀 Deployment, Security and Operations
- Reid Havens (@HavensBI) presents Everybody's Favorite Power BI & Fabric Topic: Licensing (with Stephanie Bruno)
- Gilbert Quevauvilliers (@GilbertQue) writes about Why Should I Complete Power BI Performance Load Testing & Initial Setup
🌐 General
- On the BIFocal podcast, John White and Jason Himmelstein (@bifocalshow) delve into Episode 297 - Microsoft Power BI June 2025 Feature Summary