Sometimes we would want to toggle some visuals in PowerBI on the basis of a button click for instance when clicking a button a certain visual shows up and while clicking the same or another button the visual hides itself. This can be easily done with the help of bookmarks in PowerBI. In this blog we will hide and show the slicer panel. First let’s insert a right arrow button from the Buttons option in the insert tab. And place this newly created button in the extreme left of our report canvas. Now click on View tab from the Ribbon and enable Bookmarks Pane and Selection Pane. Click on Add option in Bookmarks and create a new bookmark named Slicer Invisble Now again go to Insert tab and from shapes draw a Rectangle over the button. Now on the rectangle add a slicer and populate it with desired values also add a left button so as to close the slicer pane. Now add another bookmark named Slicer Visible in the Bookmarks pane. Now in the selection pane hide the first button we had created and update the Slicer Visible Bookmark. Similarly keep the first button visible and keep the shape, slicer, and second button hidden. Update the Slicer Invisible bookmark accordingly. Right click on both the bookmarks and uncheck the Data option so as to not record changes in data. Select the second button and toggle the Action button as on from type select bookmark and from bookmark select slicer Invisible. Similarly click on the first button and set its action to slicer visible bookmark The toggle buttons will open and close the slicer pane as required. Thank you for reading my blog hope it helped.

Sometimes we would want to ask users about their thoughts , opinions or ask some questions along with a PowerBI report. That is, we would need  to collect information about the user through PowerBI App.  This can be done by creating a Microsoft Form inside PowerBI interface to collect user information. This can be demonstrated as: Go to forms.office.com and create a new form. Insert the Title , Description and add some fields in my case I have created a Test form with a field for giving ratings. Click on share and copy the link. Go to app.powerbi.com , create a new workspace and while creating enable develop a template app option Add your existing PowerBI reports here by clicking “New” option and then click on create app. You can add Name, description and logo to this app also you can choose a theme Click on Navigation tab and enable new navigation builder Click on the  New button on the navigation pane and select link. Enter the Name of the form and enter Microsoft form link Publish the app then select go to app As you can see the form is embedded in PowerBI interface The responses done by users gets saved at forms.office.com This can be used in a scenario where we need feedback for a  PowerBI report Hope this blog helped Note: Not all Power BI users can view and interact with apps. If you have a free license, you can open apps that are stored in Premium capacity and have then been shared with you. If you have a Pro license, you can open apps that have been shared with you.

Introduction: Sometimes while refreshing our dataset in PowerBI or importing new data from existing sources we may encounter OLE DB or ODBC errors as shown in the image below. This might be due to caching issues. To solve this follow the steps: Go to File tab on the ribbon in PowerBI Desktop , then click on About and check the PowerBI version, make sure it is the latest version if not update PowerBI. If PowerBI version is latest, click on the dropdown arrow below the Transform Data button. Click on Data source settings Click on Global Permissions Select the Data Source and click on Clear Permissions and click on close. Click on close and again select the data source as new and enter the credentials. This time the dataset would be loaded without errors. Hope this article helped