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Announcing Bravo, a new add-in for Power BI

Posted by Andy Brown on 30 March 2022

Marco Russo of sqlbi.com is a (the?) expert in Power BI, so any new tool announced by him has to be worth consideration. Bravo is a new Power BI add-in which lets you analyse your data models, format your DAX, automate the creation of date tables and export data model tables to Excel.

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Power BI > Updates

Copying/pasting Power Automate Desktop flows between users

Posted by Andy Brown on 29 March 2022

If you have a Power Automate Premium account you can share flows there, but otherwise this blog shows you how you can copy and paste flows between different users.

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Power Automate Desktop > General

Running a Python script within Power Automate Desktop

Posted by Andy Brown on 28 March 2022

How can you pass a value from Power Automate Desktop to a Python script, and then get the results back? This blog explains how.

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Python > General Power Automate Desktop > Scripting

5 best and 5 worst things about Power Automate Desktop

Posted by Andy Brown on 28 March 2022

To help understand what software can do, it can be useful to look at its strengths and weaknesses - which is what this blog aims to do for Power Automate Desktop!

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Power Automate Desktop > General

Two different schedules of planned updates to Power BI

Posted by Andy Brown on 28 March 2022

It can be hard to track down that elusive animal, the Power BI Updates schedule, but we've found two hidden in the Internet undergrowth

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Power BI > Updates

The March 2022 Power BI Desktop Update

Posted by Andy Brown on 26 March 2022

There are no significant new features announced in March's Power BI Desktop update, although error bars for line charts are now in preview.

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Power BI > Updates

Updates to Power BI Desktop - February 2022

Posted by Andy Brown on 18 February 2022

The February update enables the big new formatting pane in Power BI by default, as well as introducing changes to mobile view and multi-row cards.

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Power BI > Updates

A Wordle version of Power BI

Posted by Andy Brown on 28 January 2022

Can you play Wordle in Power BI? Of course you can! This blog explains how you can get Power BI to do something which it is eminently unsuited to do!

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Power BI > General

Our advanced Power BI course has split into two!

Posted by Andy Brown on 20 January 2022

We have launched two new courses: a two-day Advanced Power BI (Reports) course for report authors, and a two-day advanced Power BI (Data) course for data modellers.

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Power BI > General

Using the CalendarAuto function effectively in Power BI

Posted by Andy Brown on 24 November 2021

This blog shows how to generate a table which includes not only all of the dates in your data model, but also a range of aggregator columns such as financial year and month name for reporting purposes.

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Power BI > Dates and calendars

A Power Automate flow to send Xmas gift emails automatically

Posted by Andy Brown on 18 November 2021

Tired of doing repetitive tasks at Christmas? This blog shows you how to create a Power Automate Desktop flow to send emails out to your nearest and dearest programmatically, with each email including instructions on how they should use the gifts they've been given.

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Power Automate Desktop > Case studies

Introducing Power Automate Desktop

Posted by Andy Brown on 18 November 2021

Power Automate Desktop allows you to automate any common sequence of tasks that you perform in Windows, and has the potential to change your working life. So what is it?

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Power Automate Desktop > General

Using personal bookmarks to persist filters

Posted by Andy Brown on 28 October 2021

In Power BI Service you can now create personal bookmarks to retain any changes you've made to filtering for a report.

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Power BI > Bookmarks and filters

Persistent report filters in Power BI

Posted by Andy Brown on 28 October 2021

Consumers of your reports can alter filters, but you can change an option to prevent these changes persisting for other users.

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Power BI > Bookmarks and filters

Sharing Power BI Reports using Teams

Posted by Andy Brown on 28 October 2021

You can add a tab for a Power BI report within a Teams channel, and also share a report from Power BI Service within Teams - this blog shows you how to do both these things!

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Power BI > General

The Magic of the Power Query SHARED Global Environment

Posted by Andy Brown on 26 July 2021

How to use the #shared keyword to bring up a list of all of the M functions in Power BI Query, and then use this list to create your own help table or even your own function.

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Power BI > Query editor

Showing Small Multiples in Power BI charts

Posted by Andy Brown on 26 July 2021

Small multiples are mini-charts shown in a two-dimensional grid, with each chart showing the state of play for a different field's value. After a number of improvements small multiples have finally emerged from preview!

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Power BI > Visualisations

5 short tips for Power BI

Posted by Sam Lowrie on 19 July 2021

Sometimes our Owls come across little titbits that aren't big enough to count as a full meal. Instead we bide our time and create a smorgasbord of little bites for you to feast on. With that in mind, here are 5 Power BI tips that you might not know.

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Power BI > General

Power BI Reports vs. Paginated Reports

Posted by Andrew Gould on 19 July 2021

Confused about the difference between Power BI Reports and Power BI Paginated Reports? Allow this blog to clear up the confusion!

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Power BI > General

Power BI Channels you should watch

Posted by Sam Lowrie on 01 July 2021

There are many great resources for learning Power BI, and so many of them are completely free! Level up your BI skills with some of the best. Here Sam covers some of his favourite BI channels. You even get a glimpse behind the curtain to see other channels he watches!

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Power BI > General

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From:	duggie
When:	23 Jun 18 at 07:59

Hi Andy,

I'm a little confused about Power BI. Looking at your videos, it seems Power BI is a collective term for PowerPivot, Power Query, Power Map, etc.

However, googling Power BI, I see this, where the video shows a completely independent tool aimed at creating dashboards and reports, so can you please clarify what is Power BI? Thanks.

From:	Andy B
When:	23 Jun 18 at 16:14

Microsoft haven't helped with their naming convention! They keep changing what Power BI refers to. Here's where we're at now ...

Power BI is a standalone desktop product, previously known as Power BI Desktop. You can use these to create reports, and publish them to the web.

PowerPivot runs within Excel, and allows you to link different data sources together to create a data model, and use this as a basis for pivot tables. PowerPivot used to be one of the Microsoft Power BI tools, but they seem to have quietly dropped this title.

So when Microsoft refer to Power BI, they now refer to creating reports in the standalone Power BI application, perhaps using Power BI Pro, and publishing these to the Internet.

Hope that's clear ... !

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