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Classification Data Software

The Search Box – A Working Example

Following the release of the Power BI Search Box visual in September, here is a working example to showcase a possible ‘search engine’ use case:

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Classification Data Software

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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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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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.

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Data

Who hates Power BI URL Parameters?

I love ’em, me, until I need to extract a custom URL – especially if it’s to this, this, this, and this – to share with others. With a bit of DAX and button trickery, however, there’s a way to add a button to a page so once values are selected in a slicer, the […]

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Automation Data

Transform your data in PowerAutomate

Super-charge your automations in PowerAutomate by customising the data coming into it using Power BI’s query editor…

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Data Intranets Software

Power BI : Learn to build free Venn and Euler diagrams

Grouping datasets into overlapping circles can, in many cases, allow your audience to easily grasp relationships between them. Power BI comes a bit short in being able to deliver on this, with no out-of-the-box visualisations for Venn or Euler graphs – and the custom visualisations are lacking essential features or cost up to US$5,000 p/annum. […]

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Data

Power BI – Keeping it Simple

You know the scenario – you throw some visualisations together and publish a proof of concept. People love it, and start filling up your backlog. You quickly add new features accordingly, and before you know it you’ve an unintelligible mass of pages, charts, tables, filters, maps, and text boxes; the ‘love’ turns out to be […]