Posts categorized: Features

Power BI Desktop April 2020 Feature Summary

We have a ton of great updates this release! We’re excited to announce a new visual personalization feature to allow your end-users to explore and personalize visuals all within the consumption view of a report! Also this month, if you’re interested in fast refresh scenarios, you will find these new features very useful: change detection for page refresh and support for relative time filters in minutes and hours. On top of this, we are releasing several other features, including rectangular lasso select across visuals, conditional formatting for totals and subtotals, Direct Query support for AI visuals: decomposition tree and key influencers, several updates to Q&A, and more!

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How Public Agencies Keep Communities Informed on COVID-19 with Power BI

As the world grapples with COVID-19, it’s critical that public agencies working to stop the spread of the virus are equipped to give citizens timely and accurate information. Government agencies and non-profits are handling large amounts of data that are changing rapidly, and many of them are turning to Power BI to share data about COVID-19 with citizens in easy-to-understand maps and dashboards.

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Announcing General Availability of Query Diagnostics

We’re happy to announce the general availability of Query Diagnostics for Power Query in Power BI. If you haven’t yet tried out the preview feature, Query Diagnostics is a powerful new feature that will allow you to determine what Power Query is doing during authoring and in some refresh workflows in Power BI Desktop.

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Power BI Desktop March 2020 Feature Summary

We have great updates this month! We are releasing new button actions, multi-column sort for tables, dual axis for line chart, a search for the filter pane, updates to decomposition tree, and much more! We are also releasing a preview of an enhanced dataset metadata feature, which will be foundational for XMLA read/write and for management of Power BI dataset and the migration of Analysis Services workloads to Power BI. Check out the full blog to learn more about all the updates and enhancements this month.

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