Power BI Weekly

Issue #349 - 17th March 2026

Not a FabCon special this week - that will come mid next week with the full round up of all Power BI related announcements. This week, just a handful of community content to whet your appetite. First of all, Jiří Neoral has written an interesting article (in Czech. but use translate if necessary!) about using standard Gen AI chat experiences to Generate a Power BI layout, comparing the likes of Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT and Copilot as to how well they generate a report page using the same prompt across each. I think this is an interesting experiment, given that it's unlikely business users will get familiar with the MCP tools that would be better suited for these types of operations, so (IMHO) comparing the standard chat experiences is a valid test.

Elsewhere this week, Zoe Douglas has written about MoM, MoM%, YoY, and YoY% DAX measure approaches (providing a handy TMDL snippet to generate all at once), Bas Dohmen has shared a means by which you can use a DAX Measure to Send Emails Directly from Power BI (or, rather, "draft" emails), and Gary Carpenter has demonstrated how to Build a Liquid Glass Navigation Menu in Power BI.