Category: Power BI

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

In this post, we will look at how to set up Power BI tooltips so when a user hovers over a record, it displays an image. Let’s follow on from a previous post where we showed how to display images from a URL in Power BI. We will now display only the City name in the report, and when the user hovers over the name, the tooltip will display the … Continue reading Using Tooltips to Show an Image on Hovering Over a Power BI Record

In this post, we will look at how to display images from a URL in Power BI. Let’s say we have a source table, Cities, that contains 2 fields, the City and the Url to the image (I happen to have these images on my site): Now, in Power BI Desktop, go to the Data tab and select the Url field. Under Modeling, select the Data Category as Image URL: … Continue reading How to Display an Image from a Url in a Power BI Report

Once Power BI Reports are created, they will point to one or more data sources. In this post, we will look at how to change a data source in a report after it is created. You may want to do this because the data source location has changed, or you are moving from one server to another such as from a development to a production environment. First, let’s look at … Continue reading How to Change a Data Source in a Power BI Report