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Revolutionize Power BI with the Search Box Visual

Unlock the full potential of your Power BI reports with our latest feature – the Search Box. This intuitive visual allows users to filter reports effortlessly by entering any terms they define. Whether it’s a simple keyword search or a precise phrase search, the Search Box has you covered.

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Data Intranets

Power BI Publishing : From Design to Distribution

Streamline your Power BI report sharing with our step-by-step publishing guide. Learn to navigate workspaces, utilize premium capacities, and embed reports in SharePoint. Uncover advanced techniques for URL customization and dynamic filtering.

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Data

15 Power BI Tricks to Supercharge Your Query Refresh Speed

Boost efficiency and bring back the joy of working in Power BI with this comprehensive guide to optimizing query performance. From connection tweaks to advanced techniques, we cover essential strategies to dramatically speed up your data refreshes.

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Classification Social Learning

I Need Help – Options and Issues with Skills Mapping in Organizations

Explore the complexities of creating an effective skills mapping system in organizations. This article delves into defining skills, measuring proficiency, and navigating the pitfalls of controlled vocabularies versus folksonomies. Discover key insights to help you design a robust skills mapping application that balances user adoption with organizational needs.

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Data

Power BI Troubleshooting: Three Steps to Fix Common Data Issues

Struggling with incorrect data in Power BI reports? This article offers a clear, step-by-step workflow to identify and resolve issues like missing values, duplicate columns, and mismatched relationships. Learn how to ensure your reports are accurate and reliable. Don’t miss the handy cheat sheet included!

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Data Project Management

Flexible Project Management : Gaining Insights on Performance

This article is a must-read for anyone using SharePoint lists to manage tasks and actions. It guides you through transforming your raw data into insightful visualisations that can help you track team performance, identify resource bottlenecks, and stay on schedule.

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Data Information Audit

Growing Trust in Power BI Reporting

Want to build trustworthy Power BI reports? This article emphasizes the importance of branding, storytelling, standardizing footers, thorough documentation, clear commenting, and validating metrics. These practices ensure reports are accurate, auditable, and resilient, fostering confidence and trust among stakeholders.

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Automation Project Management

Flexible Project Management: Adding Actions to a Task List

The content explains how to replicate Planner’s ‘Checklist’ feature in a SharePoint task list using a separate actions list and Power Apps form. It details steps to create the actions list, build and customize the Power Apps form, and link actions to tasks. Finally, it covers adding, displaying, and updating actions linked to tasks.

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Automation Data Project Management

Flexible Project Management : Automating an Email Digest of Tasks

This article explains how to set up a workflow in Power Automate to send task reminders from a SharePoint list to team members. It includes detailed steps for creating and customizing a flow that schedules reminders, generates an HTML table of tasks, and sends personalized emails, ensuring project tasks are managed effectively.

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Communities of Practice Intranets Social Learning

Essentials for Internal Communities of Practice

Communities of practice are essential for any organisation to grow its capabilities, respond quickly to opportunities and challenges in the market, and gain an engaged, productive, and satisfied workforce. Creating and growing such communities takes investment and skill.

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Automation Data Project Management

Flexible Project Management with SharePoint Lists and the Power Platform

When Microsoft’s Planner is insufficient and Project is too complex, this post outlines how to use SharePoint lists for task management. SharePoint offers flexibility with custom fields, quick setup, and integration with the Power Platform. The guide details creating task lists, assigning responsibilities, and improving task views, providing a middle ground between Planner and Project.

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Data

Mastering Visual Trends Analysis in Power BI

This post explains key methods for displaying changes over time in Power BI. It covers transforming date formats in Power Query, creating a date table, converting UNIX timestamps, and using visualizations like line graphs, column graphs, area charts, Gantt charts, and histograms. The post also provides steps for accurate running totals and highlights both DAX and simpler solutions.