Power BI Weekly

Issue #343 - 3rd February 2026

On the official blog, Zoe Douglas has provided a Deep dive into composite semantic models with Direct Lake and import tables - the new public preview capability allowing you to mix Direct Lake and Import tables and achieve the expected performance with the creation of regular (rather than limited) relationships. Marco Russo has shown us how to Show transaction details on the matrix visual in Power BI, stepping through various DAX calculations culminating in the optimal method. Just Blindbæk has written about Bringing Databricks Metric Views into the Power BI world with the new Tabular Editor 3 (Commercial) feature called "Semantic Bridge", which offers automatic conversion of the two data model representations. Finally, the Icon Map team has written an interesting article about Gradient colour schemes in Power BI: keep your map and legend colours aligned, describing where gradient legends can fall short in your dashboards and how instead to use them effectively.