Power BI Weekly

Issue #356 - 5th May 2026

No official announcements from the Power BI team this week (other than the standard On-premises data gateway April 2026 release), so straight into the community content. (Side note: it seems like the Fabric and Power BI blogs have moved (at least temporarily, but who knows!). It's fair to say it's not a very popular change!)

First of all, Alberto Ferrari at SQLBI has written a thorough walkthrough of filtering measures through slicers - something that initially sounds like a reasonable request until you realise it's actually a slightly confused one. Alberto describes why "filter a measure" is a meaningless statement without defining granularity, and then shows how to build something that achieves what most people are actually after. Onto some accessibility content now: Alex Badiu has published a practical guide to accessibility in PBIP, covering tab order and alt text with some useful (undocumented) learnings to share.

Elsewhere, Nicky van Vroenhoven has written what is essentially a decision guide for a question I'm assuming a bunch of you still have: Power Apps or Translytical Task Flows? With Translytical Task Flows now at GA, this is a live question for a lot of teams, and Nicky does a good job of cutting through the noise. The short version is: Translytical Task Flows for simple, Fabric-native write-back; Power Apps for anything that needs a richer UI or writes to targets outside of Fabric. Definitely worth a read. And finally, Chris Webb has described a neat trick for anyone managing semantic model deployments: using binding hints to automatically connect a semantic model to a Shareable Cloud Connection on publish, involving a small addition to the model's TMDL, but eliminating the manual step of wiring up the data source connection in the Service after each deployment. A useful addition to your deployment toolkit!