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Business Ops: New and Updated External Tools

2021-10-19 James Bartlett Comments Off

Howdy, folks! This past weekend, I was a man on a mission. There were two pressing reasons for a new release of Business Ops: The authors of many popular External Tools released updates recently, so […]

A better way to Mobile

2021-09-23 Mike Carlo Comments Off

Where does the Power BI Mobile app fit within your report building plan? This topic is widely un-discussed within the Power BI community. Many blogs and tutorials focus mainly on developing Power BI reports for […]

Copy Power BI Desktop Server:Port Connection String to Clipboard

2021-09-12 James Bartlett Comments Off

Howdy, folks! A few months ago, I was writing and running various PowerShell scripts to manipulate the connected data models in my Power BI Desktop files. During model development, I was constantly having to open […]

HTML Content Custom Visual

2020-10-26 Mike Carlo 0

Daniel Marsh-Patrick is a custom visual developer who recently released the HTML Content, a custom visual. This month we go over this visual in detail with it’s creator himself. While this visual is currently at […]

Power BI is part of the greater data solution

2020-10-23 Steve Campbell 3

Power BI is a powerful reporting tool that has been dominating the market and rapidly evolving. Yet, in many organizations people seem unaware of its true potential or core purpose. As a result, too often […]

MVPs React October 2020

2020-10-23 Mike Carlo 0

Horary! The Power BI desktop for October finally arrived and it is packed with tons of updates. I’m super excited about this month’s release. We rallied the troops and have a ton of MVPs talking […]

Customize the Default Dataset

2020-10-22 Mike Carlo 0

In the October 2020 release of Power BI desktop you have the ability to load a dataset from the splash page. For this tutorial we dig in on how Microsoft enables a default dataset. Additionally […]

MVPs React July 2020

2020-07-21 Mike Carlo 0

This month we are trying something brand new. We are introducing a new series called MVPs react. As you may already know Power BI has monthly desktop releases. If you are as excited about these […]

Dual Y-Axis Line Chart

2019-09-11 Mike Carlo 12

Ever need two different scales on the Y-Axis of a line chart? If so, then this tutorial is for you. While creating a dual y-axis line chart is pretty common in excel, it is not […]

Dynamic Visuals using Buttons

2019-08-08 Steve Campbell 58

Sometimes, we want the users to see different metrics, but do not want to take up too much space on our page. The scenario we are going to walk through is how to build just […]