Nov 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...
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Oct 2, 2018
New Layout – September 2018 Blog Layout
In the September 2018 blog post the Microsoft team released a new layout. This layout has a number of really nice design elements. However, upon rev...
Sep 10, 2018
How to use Drillthrough in PowerBI
In Power BI reports various features are used to enhance the reporting experience. Drillthrough allows users to navigate to different report pages wi...
Sep 10, 2018
How to Navigate Hierarchies on a Visual in Power BI
In Power BI reports various features are used to enhance the reporting experience. A hierarchy is a ordered set of values that are linked to the leve...
Sep 10, 2018
How to use Focus Mode in Power BI
In Power BI reports various features are used to enhance the reporting experience. Focus mode allows for a single visual to expand for dedicated inte...
Sep 10, 2018
How to use the Ellipsis in Power BI
In Power BI reports various features are used to enhance the reporting experience. The Ellipsis allows users to open an option menu specific to a vis...
Sep 10, 2018
How to use Tooltips in Power BI
In Power BI reports various features are used to enhance the reporting experience. Tooltips appear when the cursor is hovering over a visual. Not al...
Sep 4, 2018
Using Grids to Improve Visualization Placement
When you design a report, there are a number of things to consider. For example, the types of visuals, the colors used within the visuals, and the lo...
Aug 21, 2018
Game Time – DAX Mission Impossible
PowerBI.Tips and Phil Seamark are proud to release our third game written in Power BI, DAX Mission Impossible. This game is similar to the game play...
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...
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...