Data Sources
Milwaukee Brew City PUG – Oct 2020
The Milwaukee Crew is back at it again with the October 2020 Power BI User Group (PUG). This month we have the amazing Gil Raviv talk to us about Power Query and the Enterprise. For […]
Power BI Tutorial
Report Visualization Tips
HTML Content Custom Visual
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 […]
Data Sources
Customize the Default Dataset
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 […]
Data Preparation Tips
Handle Errors in Data Refreshes with Power Automate
This article examines using the advanced editor in Power Query to better handle when things go wrong. It will also allow custom actions to be triggered using Power Automate, allowing the rest of the data to be refreshed while alerting the owner by email of data source errors. […]
PowerBI.Tips Tools
Scrims Instructions
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 […]
Report Visualization Tips
Scale a Visual
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
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 […]
Building Reports
Act like the business, Think like I.T.
This month at our Power BI User group in Milwaukee Seth and myself walk through some of the basics of Power BI. We digest how can we leverage Power BI to Act like the business, […]
Report Visualization Tips
Filled Donut Chart, Yumm..
We are starting today off with a fun chart. We will be making a filled donut chart. Typically, I don’t use donut charts but in this case I think we have a good reason, and […]
Report Visualization Tips
Custom Sort Order Within a DAX Measure
This post will answer how to sort a measure that returns text values to a custom order, without affecting other columns. It will utilize the DAX functions of REPT() and UNICHAR(8203) – a Zero width […]