Power BI Weekly
Issue #322 - 26th August 2025
Welcome to the 322nd edition of Power BI Weekly! A quiet week this week, with just the one article from the Power BI team. They're going into a bit more detail of one of the August feature summary announcements, which is the Semantic Model Refresh Templates in Power BI (Preview), which provide various ways to easily orchestrate your Power BI refreshed, including incremental refreshes, chaining dependent refreshe, and event-driven refreshes. All very common scenarios! Elsewhere this week, Matt Mair-Durrant has written an interesting article describing how to Narrate Your Data: Implementing Dynamic Alt-Text for Inclusive Reporting, taking advantage of the ability to populate Alt Text using a DAX formula much like you can for conditional formatting. Finally, Jon Stjernegaard Vöge has continued his series of experiments on Translytical Task Flows, providing a novel solution for Using Dropdowns for User Input in Translytical Task Flows.
🛠️ Data Prep
- On the SQL Server Central blog, John Kerski (@JKerski) writes about 13 Things I wish I knew about Power Query (when I first started)
- On the RADACAD YouTube channel, Reza Rad (@RADACAD_COM) explains how to Merge tables based on Dates Between in Power Query and Power BI
- Avi Singh (@powerbipro) talks about Power BI Not Showing New CSV Columns? Here’s Why + The Fix
🧩 Data Modeling
- Chandeep Chhabra (@chandeep2786) talks about Power BI Lookup Tricks You’ll Wish You Knew Sooner
- On the Learning Science YouTube channel, Learning Science (@learn_scitech) explains How to calculate growth Month Over Month MoM in Power BI?
- On the Power BI community blog, Gökberk Uzuntaş describes how to Power BI Copilot: Write DAX Measures Fast and covers Power BI DAX Functions: Basics to Real-World Cases
- On the Power BI Tips YouTube channel, Mike Carlo and Tommy Puglia (@PowerBITips) talk about Calculation Groups in Practice - Ep.452 - Power BI tips
📊 Report Authoring and Interactivity
- On the Purple Frog Systems blog, Matt Mair-Durrant (@PurpleFrogSys) explains how to Narrate Your Data: Implementing Dynamic Alt-Text for Inclusive Reporting
- Valerie Junk (@porcubi) describes Organizational themes in Power BI
- Jon Stjernegaard Vöge describes Using Dropdowns for User Input in Translytical Task Flows
- Philipp Lenz (@lenz_philipp) explains How do I update a record in a table within Power BI using Translytical Dataflows?
🚀 Deployment, Security and Operations
- On the Power BI blog, Grace Gong highlights the new Semantic Model Refresh Templates in Power BI (Preview)
- Parul Sagar (@parulsagar) writes about the Semantic Model Refresh Templates with Fabric Data Pipelines: August 2025 Update
- Gilbert Quevauvilliers (@GilbertQue) describes How to use the Tabular Object Model using Semantic Link Labs in a Microsoft Fabric Notebook
- On the RADACAD YouTube channel, Reza Rad (@RADACAD_COM) talks about Sharing Microsoft Fabric Org App The Best Way
- Ignacio Barrau (@ignacho_07) covers [Fabric] Agregar y compartir origenes de datos nube [Spanish]
🌐 General
- Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) writes about Useful Community Tools And Resources For Power BI And Fabric
- Juliana Smith discusses Ep 20. Power BI Accessibility