Category: Power BI

Back in July I blogged about how to create themes in Power BI. Creating your own themes involved creating a JSON file. With the latest Power BI update, we are now able to create themes using the Power BI Desktop UI, as well as export themes so you can share them easily. To enable this feature, go to Options in Power BI Desktop and under Preview features select Customize Current … Continue reading Create, Update and Share Power BI Themes through the Power BI Desktop UI

The Postman app is useful as a developer if you want to send requests and see responses when interacting with Web APIs, as well as seeing what the calls actually do. In this post, we will look at how to call the Power BI REST API from Postman. First, follow the instructions here to register an Azure App to use with Power BI. Note the client id and secret. Next, … Continue reading How to Call the Power BI REST API from Postman

Imagine a scenario where your Power BI dataset does not show the latest data, for example, if you are in between a scheduled hourly or daily refresh, and your boss needs to see the latest and greatest data in a Power BI report. And, you’re out on the road. There’s a few ways to solve this problem (in another post I show building a Power Automate button). In this post, … Continue reading Build a Power App Mobile App that Displays and Refreshes your Power BI Data with a Button Click

A new preview feature of Power BI Desktop is the ability to pin the choices of visualizations available in the Visualization Pane, so we can access them easily across multiple reports. This will be a welcome change to report designers who often use visualizations that are not out of the box. To enable the preview, go to Power BI Desktop and select Options: Under Preview features, select Personalized visualizations pane and … Continue reading Checking out the Personalized Visualizations Pane in Power BI

The Power BI mobile app has a new facelift. Let’s check out the new look and navigation. To turn it on, you may a welcome message when you open the app to Turn it On: Alternatively, go to Settings, then turn on New Look. Note below we are showing the previous version of the app, which shows the navigation to Favorites, Apps, Shared with me, My Workspace, Scanner, and Settings … Continue reading Checking out the New Look and Navigation of the Power BI Mobile App

In this post, we will look at how to set up custom branding for your organization in Power BI. First, let’s log into the Power BI service at https://app.powerbi.com/ and select Settings->Admin Portal: Select Custom Branding in the menu: We can see there are 3 ways we can brand Power BI: Logo Cover image Theme color Let’s look at each one of these. For the logo, the size should be at … Continue reading How to Set Up Custom Branding in the Power BI Service