Category Archives: Power BI
How do you get a latest Refresh Date in Microsoft Power BI report
In this blog we will learn how to get a last refresh date in Microsoft Power BI report. So, using this practice, we will know last data refresh and also knows the problem with dataset refresh. In order to get latest refresh dates, you have to follow the below steps. Step 1: Open your report in “Power BI Desktop”. Step 2: Click on Transform data, it will open Power query Step 3: Click on New Source, select Blank query. Step 4: Enter DAX expression: = DateTime.LocalNow() and also change the name Step 5: Before use its need to convert into To Table. Step 6: Rename the column name like DateTime Step 7: Click on Close & Apply Step 8: Drag the Datetime field in report and apply card level visualization. It will work when you refresh the whole model, it will not refresh the date when individual table refresh. Hope this helps!
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Hiding Filter Pane in Power BI Reports
While viewing reports in Power BI service/ Power BI Desktop, Power BI provides a feature to eliminate the filter pane completely in order to provide a professional look. Here are the ways to Hiding Filter Pane in Power BI reports. 1.Show/Hide the filter pane from report readers. By default, the Filters pane is visible to the end-users. If we don’t want them to see it, we can select the eye icon next to Filters and hide it. 2. Turning on/off the filters from Settings. Steps: Open the Power BI Report in the desired workspace and go to the content section. Select More options (…), then select Settings for that report. Go to the Filtering Experience and disable both the options to hide the filter pane. 3. Showing the desired filters in a user-friendly manner: We can select the filters which we want to display to the end-user depending on the users requirement. Hover-over the filter icon on the right-hand corner to view the read-only filters. Whichever filter we do not want to display to the user, we can hide them in the filter section of the report. Hope this helps!
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Modern Enterprise BI: Part 1
Power BI has some new features and Future Promises for Modern Enterprise applications in Business.
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How to Hide the filters panel in Microsoft Power BI report
In this blog we will learn how to hide the filter panel in Microsoft Power BI report. Once you publish the Power BI report in Power BI service, filter panel is useless for the end user. In order to hide the filter pane, you have to follow the below steps. Step 1: Open your report in “Power BI Desktop”. Step 2: Click on filter pane. Step 3: There is a eyeball icon at the top of the filter pane that can be toggled. Save the report and publish to your workspace. Before published the report looks like below. After the published the report, user can not see the filter pane. You can also do this in the Edit Report in the service. Hope this helps!
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How to Pin Entire Report Page to Dashboard in Power BI
Dashboard is created to get a brief overview of your report by pinning visuals to an Existing dashboard or to a new dashboard. But sometimes it might be required to pin all the visuals of your page in the report to your dashboard. This blog will guide you through how this can be achieved.
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How to publish your Power BI report to CRM Dashboard
Instead of viewing dashboard and report on Power BI Web Service, we can directly view it in CRM. We need to publish the Power BI dashboard to our CRM Environment. This Blog will guide you through it can be done.
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Microsoft Power BI – Joining contents of two tables into one table using Append Power Query
In this blog we will learn how to append two or more table into new table or existing table. The Append Queries in Microsoft Power BI is an equivalent of UNION ALL in SQL. Consider two sample customer table; one for CustomerOne: And Customertwo: Open Microsoft Power BI for Desktop > Get Data > Excel > the excel file. You should see this: Select tables and click on Transform Data. Now it’s time to proceed with the Append operation itself: Click the little triangle on the main “Append Queries” button. You’ll get 2 options: Append Queries – this operation would add rows into an existing table Append Queries as New – this operation will create a new output table from 2 (or more) appended tables. I’m going for this option. So, let’s see what happens after clicking the “Append Queries as New” button: You either append 2 tables like me OR you can do “Three or more”. So, keep in mind you are NOT limited to 2 tables only. One important thing to understand how the tables are actually “appended” together. Power BI looks at column names. If it finds the same columns like in my case (CustomerID, First Name, Last Name, Contact No) in both the tables, it won’t create any new columns and it will fit everything right into those 4 columns. What about Duplicates? Append Queries will NOT remove duplicates. You have to use Group by or Remove Duplicate Rows to get rid of duplicates. So, you press OK and you get the result of your operation. Now the result: Hope this helps!
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How to Install and Locate new Plugin in XRM
This Blog will show you how you can Install and locate your Plugins in XRM new interface.
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Register an application entity in Azure Active Directory
The following steps are to be followed to register an application entity in Azure Active Directory:- Go to Azure Active Directory and Click on App Registrations. Click on New Registration, Enter a name and the Redirect URL and click Register. Copy and save the Application(client) ID and Tenant ID in a text file. Generate a key for the Client ID from Certificate & secrets section.Go to Certificate & secrets and click + New Client Secret.
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Conditional Formatting by Row in a Matrix
Introduction: This blog will show you how you can color individual rows differently based on different conditions and the row headers in matrix (Not alternating rows). Our Scenario: I want to apply colors to different rows of the following Buckets: Current – No Color 1-30 Days Past Due – Yellow 31-60 Days Past Due – Orange 61-90 Days Past Due – Red 91 or More Days Past Due – Red Step 1: Create a new calculated column in your data source which applies a numeric value to each header type that you would like to have highlighted. We have created a Calculated Column using the following query. Step 2: Select the Matrix to which you want to apply the formatting and go to conditional formatting section in the Format Tab and turn the Background Color Option “On”. Step 3: The Conditional Formatting is applied for different fields in the Values section in the Matrix. So we will apply conditional formatting according to No. field first. Select Format by “Rules”. In Based on field select “Sum of Color Column” and in Summarization select “Sum”. In the Rules section add the Rule as shown in the Screenshot. Step 4: Apply the other rules for different colors same as above. Step 5: The Colors have been applied to different buckets according to our rule for “No.” Column. Step 6: Repeat the same steps by selecting different fields from the drop down under Conditional Formatting, one by one. Step 7: Thus we have colored the different rows of the Matrix successfully based on our condition.
