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!

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