Building Reports

Introducing Scrims
PowerBI.Tips Tools

Introducing Scrims

2019-12-23 Seth Bauer

PowerBI.tips is excited to announce our new tool to help you build the best looking reports, Scrims. We’ve built out a fast and easy solution for snapping visualizations into place while giving your reports the […]

Scrims Instructions
PowerBI.Tips Tools

Scrims Instructions

2019-12-21 Mike Carlo

Thanks for your interest in our product Scrims. For more details on what is a scrim click this link to Learn More. Download a scrim from the products page. You can access all the available […]

Performance Tips & Tricks

More Visuals Mo Problems

2019-12-06 Mike Carlo

In some recent conversations the notion of minimizing the number of required visuals came up as a topic. While I know from talking with the Microsoft development team more visuals on a report page increases […]

Report Visualization Tips

Scale a Visual

2019-11-20 Mike Carlo

For each visual in Power BI Desktop there is a button called Focus Mode. This feature highlights a single visual. While this can be helpful, it does remove the ability to change or adjust the […]

Building Reports

Stacked Bar Chart

2019-11-05 Mike Carlo

For this week we are building a stacked bar chart on https://Charts.PowerBI.Tips. While you can build this type of chart within Power BI Desktop this video is more of an example showing how you can […]

Data Sources

Make PBIDS Files

2019-10-23 Mike Carlo

In October of 2019 Power BI released a new file type, PBIDS. The Power BI Desktop Source (PBIDS) file is a JSON object file that aids users connecting to data sources. In true PowerBI.Tips fashion […]