Power BI Weekly

Issue #347 - 3rd March 2026

This week we've received the Power BI February 2026 Feature Summary, including a few interesting reporting features such as GA of Filter or enter data in reports with Input slicer (formerly the Text slicer) and the ability to Paste selections into any report slicer, opening up this capability to the standard slicer. A bit more detail on the input slicer is available in the article Input slicer: Filter reports and collect user input.

Outside the feature summary this week, there's been the announcement about the ability to Evaluate Power Query Programmatically in Microsoft Fabric (Preview) whereby the Fabric team has exposed an API on top of a Dataflow to allow you to execute arbitrary queries using the Dataflow engine. Opens up a lot of automation scenarios if you're familiar with Power Query! Elsewhere this week, James Serra has written a useful blog comparing Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric (given that the feature sets are somewhat converging) and Marco Russo has written about a simple way to troubleshoot your tricky measures, writing about Debugging DAX variables using TOJSON and TOCSV (a trick I still find useful since you don't need to try to recreate your evaluation context elsewhere!)