Jul 30, 2018
Microsoft Business Applications Summit – New Layout – Purple Haze
In honor of the 2018 Business Applications Summit, PowerBI.Tips has published a new layout, Purple Haze. Purple Haze is the brain child of Seth Bauer...
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Jul 28, 2018
Microsoft Business Application Summit – PowerBI.Tips 2018 Top Tips and Tricks
Want to give a special thanks to the Microsoft PowerBI team for allowing PowerBI.Tips to participate in the 2018 Microsoft Business Application Summit...
Jul 17, 2018
Tic Tac Power BI
I am proud to announce another joint development game between Philip Seamark and myself (Mike Carlo) of a Tic Tac Toe game. To read about how this ga...
Jul 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...
Jun 22, 2018
Power BI and Sudoku – Yes Please
This week Philip Seamark, an avid Power BI developer has released a joint project with PowerBI.Tips, a full Sudoku game in Power BI. To be totally ho...
Jun 20, 2018
Segmented Filtering with Slicers
This weeks tutorial focuses on the need to control groups of visuals independently. This recently came up in a project where I needed to adjust all t...
Jun 6, 2018
Data Table Filters
Hands down best feature this year to date, Data Table Filtering! In the June 2018 Power BI Desktop Microsoft released the ability for you to navigate...
May 17, 2018
Apply a Filter to a Slicer
Often when working with a Power BI report you will add a slicer that has a “Blank” item in the selection criteria. From a usability standpoint you mi...
Apr 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...
Apr 18, 2018
Introducing Lingo
Update: This tool has been deprecated as of 2024-11-27. You can now find this as a downloadable HTML file on GitHub.
Feb 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...
Feb 21, 2018
Crazy Table Gymnastics – Part 2 – Build Support Materials
This is part 2 in the 3 part series on developing super cool tables using some fancy measures. In part 1 we walked through how to build a table that...
Feb 14, 2018
Crazy Table Gymnastics – Part 1 – Dynamic Column Categories
When I teach Power BI to new users, there are typically questions about how to get Power BI to act more like Pivot Tables in Excel. Through my discus...
Jan 31, 2018
Adding Data Types Within Query Editor
If you have spent any time working in Power BI, your very first step is to, wait for it… Get Data. Using Get Data will start loading your data into t...
Jan 19, 2018
New Layout – Splash o Red
First off, let me say WOW! The announcement of Layouts was well received by the Power BI Community. Thank you so much for the positive feedback. So...
Jan 16, 2018
Introducing Layouts
PowerBI.tips is extremely happy to be part of, and contribute to, the Power BI Community. We’re constantly trying to think of new and interesting ways...
Jan 15, 2018
Move Visuals Between Reports
There are cases when working with Power BI files, that you would want to transfer a visual from one report to another report. While this feature is n...
Dec 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.
Dec 20, 2017
Start of Month DAX Calendar
While on a recent project I needed to build a variation of the DAX date table with start-of-month dates. Here's how to create one.
Nov 24, 2017
Custom Usage Metrics Reporting
One of the really cool features contained within the PowerBI.com service is the ability to monitor how often your dashboard or report is being viewed....
Nov 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...
Nov 14, 2017
Fixing the Truncating Bar Chart
The more you work with Power BI Desktop it is more than likely you will find some tool limitations that impact your overall design pursuits. As I hav...
Nov 1, 2017
Creating A DAX Calendar
There are many cases when you will need to create a date table within Power BI desktop. This could be as simple as creating a master date table or mo...
Oct 16, 2017
Power BI Connection Types
Get Data – Power BI Connection Types: An Introduction to understanding Import, Direct Query, and Live connections.