Power BI Weekly
Issue #348 - 10th March 2026
A short edition this week with no announcements to share. So let's highlight a few articles. First of all, Teo Lachev has provided an overview of Direct Lake Composite Models (currently in preview), comparing and contrasting them to Direct Lake-only models and proposing scenarios where you might like to consider the composite option. Elsewhere this week, a couple of Field Parameters videos: Reid Havens starts with a good overview of Power BI Field Parameters vs Calculation Groups (while showing off some new web-dev skills!) and Nadim Abou-Khalil has shared a Field Parameters Step-by-Step - Dynamic Reports Made Easy, showing how you can create arbitrary groupings over field parameters to achieve bulk showing/hiding of fields on your visuals. Nice trick!
🛠️ Data Prep
- Jeff Lenning (@Exceluniversity) blogs about IMPORTCSV IMPORTTEXT
- Chandeep Chhabra (@chandeep2786) talks about 5 Advanced Tricks Beyond Power Query’s User Interface
🧩 Data Modeling
- On the SQLBI blog, Alberto Ferrari (@FerrariAlberto) blogs about Creating functions for the like-for-like DAX pattern
- On the Prologika blog, Teo Lachev (@tlachev) writes about Direct Lake Composite Models
- Reid Havens (@HavensBI) talks about Power BI Field Parameters vs Calculation Groups
- On the Power BI community blog, Anmol Malviya shares some Use Cases of Local (Modeling) MCP Server, Use Cases of Remote Power BI MCP Server and describes How to Discover and Document Data Sources in Power BI Semantic Models
- Nadim Abou-Khalil blogs about Power BI Field Parameters Step-by-Step - Dynamic Reports Made Easy
📊 Report Authoring and Interactivity
- On the SQLBI blog, Marco Russo (@marcorus) talks about Real estate with Synoptic Panel by OKVIZ
- Reid Havens (@HavensBI) hosts Power BI to Plotly: Build AI Dashboard Apps with Adam Schroeder
🚀 Deployment, Security and Operations
- Gilbert Quevauvilliers (@GilbertQue) explains how to Restore Microsoft Items from Backup using Python & Fabric CLI
- On the RADACAD YouTube channel, Reza Rad (@RADACAD_COM) talks about Common Mistakes When Sharing Power BI Reports from Workspace
- On the Power BI community blog, Julián Ramírez shares a Common Power BI + Snowflake headache that kept me fighting for days
- On the Microsoft Fabric Café YouTube channel, Chris Cusumano talks about Breaking Bad….Governance in Power BI: Free & Open-Source Solution
- Ignacio Barrau (@ignacho_07) writes Descargar reporte o modelo semantico via API como proyecto TMDL [Spanish]