Sorting can be used for defining an order direction for your Custom Visual. There are 3 different ways using which you or a user using your visual can sort your visual. They are as follows: Default Sorting: This is the easiest sorting option and gives users the ability to sort the visual by any field … Continue reading Power BI Custom Visual Sorting →

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 … Continue reading PBIVIZ Single Line Toggle Format Option Tip →

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 … Continue reading Steps to Import Power BI Custom Visual →

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. … Continue reading Power BI Transport Layer Security Settings (TLS) →

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 … Continue reading Count Number of weekends between 2 dates in SSRS →

Issue: If you are trying to preview a FetchXML report in SSRS and you are a facing an issue due to a Sign-In Failure, then the reason for that most probable is due to the reason that you are trying to connect to CRM v9. When we try to connect to a v9 environment using … Continue reading SSRS Report Preview not working for D365 CRM V9 (Solution) →

Issue: In SSRS if we are using an aggregate function in a group at the Tablix level, then you may realize that the simple row numbering function does not give a current sequential ranking. Using the function RowNumber(Nothing) gives something like this. Using RowNumber(“GroupName”) would also give an incorrect row numbering and look something like … Continue reading Row Numbering Issue for Grouped Data in SSRS →

Introduction: If we need to look up for any value from AX then we do it by using a Find Block in Scribe Insight Eg: BasicHttpBinding_ItemService_find Every Find block has 2 components and they are, Query Criteria – Used for specifying the Table Name, Field Name and the Fields Value for finding the record Return … Continue reading Scribe Insight AX as a Web Service Find Block issue →

Introduction: In this blog we will explore some of the new features added to Power BI. Power BI has upgraded its Q&A Experience in its latest April release. It has simplified and simultaneously improved the natural language recognition process which is one of Power BI’s most powerful tools for Query Processing! Some of Q&A Explorers … Continue reading Power BI April 2018 Update: Q&A Explorer →

Introduction: Microsoft released a PDF cheat sheet of which machine learning algorithms can be used on Azure Machine Learning Studio. This Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Algorithm Cheat Sheet helps you choose the right machine learning algorithm for your predictive analytics solutions from the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning library of algorithms. The algorithms have been grouped in 5 different … Continue reading Azure Machine Learning Cheat Sheet →