April 29, 2024
Tips+ Designer and Theme Generator Tutorial: Automatic Visual Objects with AI
Welcome to today’s tutorial where we’ll explore an exciting feature implemented to streamline your background creation process in Power BI. If you’ve...
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Seth Bauer
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February 27, 2024
Tips+ Designer and Theme Generator Tutorial: Gallery Project Copy & Edit
## Introduction Welcome to today’s tutorial where we dive into the powerful capabilities of the Power BI Tips+ Theme Generator. In this post, we won’...
January 29, 2024
Tips+ Designer and Theme Generator Tutorial: Gallery Project Download for Easy Theme Solutions
Welcome to today’s tutorial where we’ll explore the Power BI Tips+ Theme Generator and its incredible features designed to streamline your Power BI re...
January 18, 2024
Creative Thinking in Fabric & Power BI
In podcast #286 we take the time to review an older video of John Cleese giving a talk about the Creative Process in Management. We thought this would...
December 9, 2023
Revolutionizing Power BI Theme Building with New AI Capabilities in Tips+
Introducing cutting-edge AI capabilities to simplify the Theme Building experience. We recognize the value of time in the fast-paced realm of analytics.
October 15, 2023
Designer: Use any Scrim from the Gallery when Building Wireframes
## **The Power BI Tips Theme Generator: Your Ultimate Theming Tool** The Power BI Tips Theme Generator is the go-to resource for users aiming to crea...
October 4, 2023
Unlock Effortless Power BI Theming with the New Gallery Feature
The Power BI Tips Theme Generator tool already allows you to easily interact with, and adjust, all the visual properties, wireframes, etc… How could w...
August 14, 2023
Transforming Power BI Customization: Wire Frames in PowerBI.Tips Designer
### **Introducing the New PowerBI.Tips WireFrames Feature** In the dynamic landscape of data visualization, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. Th...
June 7, 2023
Unlock Your Creativity with the Power BI Tips Designer: Exciting New Features!
At Power BI Tips, we’re committed to providing you with the best tools and resources to enhance your report building experience. That’s why we’re thri...
February 28, 2023
PowerBI Tips Theme Generator: The Ultimate Tool for Creating Complex Themes
Power BI is a powerful business intelligence tool that helps organizations to gain insights into their data. With its ability to create stunning visua...
October 12, 2022
Live AMA with Marco Russo & Alberto Ferrari
When the moon hits your eye… If Dean Martin were still alive and loved Power BI as much as we do… Do you think he might change up the lyrics of his so...
February 10, 2022
Certified vs. Promoted Dataset?
Power BI continues to grow and strengthen its position in the enterprise space. A feature that you may not be aware of, but can be extremely valuable,...
January 9, 2022
Continuously Improving User Experience
In the day to day operations of businesses speed of delivery, cost effectiveness, and satisfaction of outcome is a trifecta of challenges we run again...
December 22, 2021
Power BI Themes
Themes are the bedrock of consistency. As report authors it is important to create a consistent experience in a single, series or multitude of reports...
December 15, 2021
Discussing SQLBI's 7 Reasons DAX is Not Easy
First of all, go read this amazing blog put out by Alberto Ferrari over at SQLBI that he posted awhile ago. It is the context for the conversation we...
December 9, 2021
Measuring Data Culture Success
This topic was gleaned from the absolute wealth of knowledge put down in the MSFT [Power BI Adoption Roadmap](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-b...
December 2, 2021
Trolling the Power BI Ideas Site
Trolling… we should clear up the definition of this right off the bat. We aren’t talking about the type of trolling where we spend a bunch of time fin...
November 27, 2021
Power BI Formal vs. Self-Training
We’ve been having an amazing amount of fun having conversations on our podcast “[Explicit Measures](https://powerbi.tips/explicit-measures-power-bi-po...
May 11, 2021
How to Represent Your Power BI Skills
This is part 3 of 3 in a series designed to help Power BI users and enthusiasts. This post focuses on representing your skills when the time comes.
April 25, 2021
How to Build Your Power BI Skills
**One of the biggest improvements you can make to your life and career is embracing a learning mentality.** If you are here, I assume one of your inte...
February 11, 2021
Assess Knowledge using the Power BI Skills Matrix
Power BI took the BI world by storm 5 years ago, there has been a release of the Power BI Desktop almost every single month. The infant that was Power...
September 30, 2020
Milwaukee Brew City PUG – Sept 2020
We were excited to welcome a good friend of PowerBI.Tips Alex Powers to speak with us at this months PUG meet...
September 29, 2020
Designing a Great Power BI Report
What does it take to design and create a great looking report in Power BI? Do you have a clear understanding of what tools and techniques you should u...
September 8, 2020
Update 'Enter Data' Table in Service without full Publish
This tip outlines an easy deployment method for data tables that have been manually added to a model via “Enter data” in Power BI Desktop. This is a v...
August 13, 2020
One Tool to Install them ALL
We are excited to announce a new tool from PowerBI.tips — The Business Ops tool. One tool to install them all!
June 16, 2020
Buy and Apply Power BI Premium P license
I am working on a project that uses Power BI embedded to display reports to external users via an application. I’ve used the progression of A sku’s (e...
June 3, 2020
Model Performance in DAX Studio
Understand more about your model then you thought possible! This is part two in our series on DAX Studio. If you missed part one be sure to check out...
May 14, 2020
Introduction to DAX Studio
Darren Gosbell & Marco Russo join PowerBI.Tips in a 4 part series on how and why to use DAX Studio! They show us why **DAX Studio is the ultimate tool...
May 8, 2020
Milwaukee Brew City PUG – April 2020
The Milwaukee Brew City PUG for April kicks off with some quick updates and highlights of upcoming events. We spend a quick minute on why we’re so exc...
March 4, 2020
Keeping it Versatile
I was recently working on some new ideas for a Scrim when I stumbled upon something interesting. A scrim is pretty specific in its layout, and this on...
February 17, 2020
Adding Contextual Help for End Users
As a report author it is important that you build the necessary context for your end users. The main areas most often needing context either relate to...
January 14, 2020
KPIs in Power BI
KPIs are a key visualization type used to convey high level metrics to the end users. They provide an at-a-glance metric that allows business users to...
December 23, 2019
Introducing Scrims
PowerBI.tips is excited to announce our new tool to help you build the best looking reports, Scrims. We’ve...
November 27, 2019
Embedding Paginated Reports
Over the course of time Power BI has come to encompass a wide variety of technologies and tools. One such product that has been integrated into the su...
November 12, 2019
Consolidate Report Pages Easily with Visual Grouping
We do a ton of Layouts here at powerbi.tips and with the introduction of the new visual grouping feature I wa...
October 29, 2019
Building a Gateway Cluster
Power BI requires a gateway for refreshing on premises data sources. There are a myriad of different data sources that you can create and two differen...
October 15, 2019
Power Query – Get Started!
As a user that builds Power BI reports, did you know the different technologies that come into play when you interact with the tool? This is one of th...
October 2, 2019
Power BI datasets: A Method to the Madness
As report authors we sometimes get caught up in how easy it is to create a report and provide value to the business. Each report is an opportunity to...
September 17, 2019
Updating PBIX Files in SharePoint: Do’s & Don’ts
I recently encountered a really frustrating experience related to a set of reports seeming to not update after some data source changes. I’d done this...
September 3, 2019
Power BI Refresh Overview
There are different ways you can connect to a multitude of different data sources. I’ve written about the different connection types before and you ca...
August 30, 2019
New Layout – One
This layout continues to deliver fantastic visual guides to make your reports look top notch. This layout utilizes buttons for navigation without lock...
July 11, 2019
The Dynamic Time Matrix
Time and time again when I begin talking with Excel users and ask to see what current reports they are using, they usually show me a table with a mixe...
June 20, 2019
2019 Microsoft Business Application Summit Retrospective
This year the Microsoft Business Application Summit (MBAS) was held in Atlanta Georgia. Despite some travel snafu’s (3 rebooking’s and 9 delays), we m...
May 1, 2019
New Layout – Square One
“Square One” utilizes the color theme as a background component that adds a pop of accent color only. This gives you the end user the maximum flexibil...
March 21, 2019
New Layout - Smooth Operator
Hey everyone! We're excited to release our latest layout 'Smooth Operator'. Download it now and give your reports a fresh look.
December 4, 2018
Respect Layers
If you are like me and you like making your reports look extra good with different visual elements you’ve probably come across the issue before where...
November 26, 2018
New Game – aMAZEing DAX
If you haven’t had your mind melted over the past few games that Phil Seamark has developed here is one more, aMAZEing DAX. This month’s game is a Ga...
November 13, 2018
Power BI Dataflows: Change is Coming
I have been holding on to a copy of Satya Nadella’s book “Hit Refresh” for quite some time. With all the Power BI goodness, the job, etc.… I just hadn...
July 9, 2018
Center the X-Axis on a Line Chart
Sometimes when your working on a line chart you want the x-axis to stay centered on a chart. This tutorial will walk you through how to create an X-Ax...
April 23, 2018
When to Use Publish to Web
There are often questions surrounding Publish to Web. What is it? How can I use it to share my reports? This video walks through the proper usage f...
February 26, 2018
Power BI Connections: Live Connection
Of all the connection types, I’ve always gravitated towards this one. I imagine it is because I come from the database developer side of things. I’m a...
December 29, 2017
Power BI Connections: Direct Query
Now that we've covered the basics of connection types, let's dive into Direct Query and when to use it for your Power BI reports.
November 16, 2017
Power BI Connections: Import
Power BI’s default connection type is Import. In fact, if you have never dealt with a data source that handles multiple loading methods, you may never...
October 16, 2017
Power BI Connection Types
Get Data – Power BI Connection Types: An Introduction to understanding Import, Direct Query, and Live connections.