We can add various Visual Formatting Options while developing a Power BI Custom Visual. One of them is the Toggle feature which is useful for adding or removing particular abilities to your visual or perform any similar boolean operations. The json bit for the toggle option looks like this. By default when you add a toggle option, the option is available under a dropdown. To access the toggle option you will always have to click on the dropdown arrow. There is a neat little trick that can make you access the toggle button directly rather than clicking on the dropdown button every time. You only need to change the required toggle property name to “show”. Note: The object name for the toggle option needs to be changed to “show” in the visual.ts file as well. Your toggle option should look like this now!

Introduction: Recently, we encountered an error while integrating Sales Orders from Salesforce to Microsoft Dynamics NAV via Scribe displaying the following error message. Error Details: “The Sales Header Extension does not exist. Identification fields and values: Document Type=’Quote’, No=’ ‘ ” Reason for the error: Upon further debugging, we found that a field in the Target NAV environment was throwing the error when Scribe was trying to input data into it. Solution: The configuration of the field in the Target NAV environment needs to be changed so that it can populate data being integrated by Scribe. This will allow Scribe to integrate the record successfully!

Introduction: There are plenty of different custom visuals available outside of Power BI that can be used by anyone to develop some powerful visuals for free. These visuals can be downloaded from the Power BI AppSource marketplace and added in your reports. All of these visuals have also be approved by Microsoft. Steps to Download a Custom Visual: Following are the steps to download and use a Power BI Custom Visual in Power BI Desktop: Open the AppSource and select Power BI Visuals For this demonstration, I will be downloading the Dial Gauge which is a custom visual developed by CloudFronts Select on Get it now(You will have to log in with your Microsoft email id) . A pbiviz file will be downloaded. Open your Power BI Desktop and select on the ellipses in Visualizations. Click on import from file and open the pbiviz file you just downloaded. The visual should be visible with your other visuals now To get a little more familiar with the report, you can download the sample report available with the visual on AppSource. This will download a pbix report. The sample report would look something like this. I hope this blog helps you get started with Power BI Custom Visuals. Do check out our Custom Visual DialGauge as well!

There are two ways you can expand/collapse row headers in matrix visualization. First one is through the Right-click menu. You will see options to expand/Collapse the specific record or row you clicked on, entire level or all down to the very last level of the hierarchy. In exactly same way you can collapse row headers as well. Right- Click -> Expand/Collapse Also, you can add +/- buttons to the row headers through the formatting pane under the row headers card. By default, the icons will match the formatting of the row header. Additionally, you can format it with the color and size. Once you have turned on the icons, it will work similarly to the icons of drill-down.

Introduction: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a protocol that provides Secure communications. There are different versions of this protocol with the latest one being TLS 1.2. With all the crazy updates that Microsoft comes with, many of the programs, web services. etc. have enforced TLS 1.2 to be mandatory for communicating over the network. The previous versions of TLS are not supported in many of these programs and sooner or later they will deprecate for sure. Lucky for us, after the October 2018 update, Power BI Desktop now respects this need for TLS 1.2 and recognizes the Windows registry key in your System. You can enable or disable which version of TLS protocol is needed and Power BI will use that version accordingly. Steps to disable older TLS: Open your regedit by searching for ‘regedit’ in the search box of the taskbar Note: Changes in the regedit can cause serious changes in your system. Please take a backup of your regedit before proceeding and import the backup just in case your system starts to act funny. Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\TLS 1.0\Client] and make the following changes [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\TLS 1.0\Client] “Enabled”=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\TLS 1.0\Client] “DisabledByDefault”=dword:00000001 This will disable your Power BI from using your older version of TLS 1.0 by default Steps to update your TLS to 1.2 Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\TLS 1.2\Client] and make the following changes [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\TLS 1.2\Client] “Enabled”=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\TLS 1.2\Client] “DisabledByDefault”=dword:00000000 This will enforce your applications to use the latest TLS Power BI Desktop will respect the registry keys specified on those pages, and only create connections using the right version of TLS. For further documentation on TLS, you can refer the microsoft document below https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/security/tls/tls-registry-settings

Introduction: Once a User exports a report to Microsoft Excel from a Microsoft Dynamics CRM environment, they may want to further filter the report in Microsoft Excel. Issue: An issue I came across recently was that the report, when exported to Excel, would not allow me to filter in Excel for the first few columns, as shown in the screenshot below. On further testing, I found that this was due to the Title text box above the table. Solution: Once the side of the text box was extended to the very end of the report (as shown above), near the end of the page, Excel allowed the filters to be applied to all columns in the exported SSRS report. That solves it!

Introduction: In this article, we will learn how to set a default dashboard when you login to Power BI Service. Default Dashboard is termed as ‘Featured Dashboard’ in Power BI. Steps for configuring featured dashboard: Login to Power BI Service Open the Dashboard you need to display when you open Power BI Service. Click ‘Set as featured’ on the top navigation bar of your dashboard. A Pop-up window will appear for confirmation. Click on ‘Set as featured dashboard’ button. 1

Introduction: Recently, we encountered an issue while exporting the SSRS Reports to Excel. In CRM, the SSRS Report was displaying the data correctly but for few filter criteria, we were not able to export the Reports to Excel.  On troubleshooting in SQL Data Tools, we found that it was throwing the below error. Error Details: The row item structure object corresponding to a line cannot be null. Reason for the error: We had 2 matrix in our Report one of which had data and another was retrieving no rows according to few criteria. Whenever a matrix is null, you cannot export the Report to Excel as Excel does not render null matrix. Solution: Add a visibility condition on the matrix that if the dataset pertaining to the matrix returns no rows then hide the table. Voila! You are good to go. Happy Reporting!!

Introduction The September 2018 Update of Power BI has finally brought to users, the functionality to copy data from a table or matrix in a report. This has been a much-requested feature as one often finds themselves needing to copy a value or columns of data from a report with no option to do so. Steps: Now, if you want to copy a value, several columns  in a table or matrix you can do so by following the steps below: Copying one value :  Select the value->right-click on the selection -> select ‘Copy Value’ -> An unformatted value will now be added to your clipboard. Copying several columns of data: Select all the data in the required columns->right click on the selection and select ‘Copy Selection’.-> The required data and column headers are copied to the clipboard. In a Matrix, when you select one value->right-click-> ‘Copy Selection’-> All measures required are copied along with the value ( as shown in the screenshot below). Conclusion: This is a long-awaited feature of Power BI and will definitely enhance user experience while navigating and using Power BI reports.

Problem: There is no in-built function in SSRS where we can count the number of Saturdays and Sundays between any two dates in SSRS. This is a needed function for scenarios where we only need to get a count of working days.’ Solution: Following is a formula that can be used for getting an accurate count of weekends. = (((DateDiff (DateInterval.Day, DateAdd(DateInterval.Day,7-WeekDay(Parameters!startDate.Value),Parameters!startDate.Value), DateAdd(DateInterval.Day,7-WeekDay(Parameters!endDate.Value),Parameters!endDate.Value).AddDays(1)) + 1)/ 7)*2) + iif(weekday(Parameters!endDate.Value)=7,1,0) + iif(weekday(Parameters!startDate.Value)=1,1,0) -1 Here instead of Parameters!startDate.Value and Parameters!endDate.Value, you can use any other Start Date or End Date.