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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 […]

Act like the business, Think like I.T.

2019-10-30 Mike Carlo 0

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, […]

Make PBIDS Files

2019-10-23 Mike Carlo 1

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 […]

Historical Stock Price Function in Power Query

2019-10-22 Steve Campbell 58

This post will walk through how to pull daily stock price from Yahoo! Finance, then transform the data using a technique called a query branch. It will be completed all in the Power Query Editor. […]

Grouping with Style

2019-09-26 Mike Carlo 3

Grouping with Style The release of grouping visuals was an extremely welcomed feature. As one who builds lots of reports grouping elements together is essential to stay organized and to increase report building speed. Since […]

Updating PBIX Files in SharePoint: Do’s & Don’ts

2019-09-17 Seth Bauer 2

I recently encountered a really frustrating experience related to a set of reports seeming to not update after some data source changes. I’d done this change before, and had another co-worker take on the task […]

New Layout – One

2019-08-30 Seth Bauer 1

This layout continues to deliver fantastic visual guides to make your reports look top notch. This layout utilizes buttons for navigation without locking in the position in the layout background. We also really like how […]

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 […]

Icons upon Icons

2019-07-18 Mike Carlo 13

I am just bursting with excitement!! This month the amazing Power BI team has yet again come out with a great new feature, Icon sets. In addition to this you can enhance these icon sets […]

The Dynamic Time Matrix

2019-07-11 Seth Bauer 16

Time and time again when I begin talking with Excel users and ask to see what current reports they are using, they usually show me a table with a mixed bag of columns split by […]