Author: Laura GB

Over 20 year experience at being passionate about training, solving problems and loving a new challenge especially in the Microsoft's Power Platform suite.

26th July 2019

Power BI – Cascading Slicers

In this post I will look at filtering one slicer based a selection in another slicer. June 2019 Power BI Update included an update to allow a slicer to be filtered based on a measure, which means that you no longer need to use bi-directional relationships.

How to/Power BI

25th July 2019

Power BI – Using inactive relationships in a measure.

In this post I will show a simple example of how to use a different relationship between two tables in a measure. The example I will use is a list of tasks with start and finish dates. The request is for how many tasks start per week and how many finish per week to be plotted on a column chart.

Intermediate/Power BI

9th July 2019

Power BI – Data Refresh Date

In this quick post I will walk through adding a data refresh date on a report page in Power BI.

How to/Power BI

8th July 2019

PowerApps – Using JSON Function to save Pictures

In this post I will be explaining how to use the JSON Function to simplify the saving of multiple pictures from a PowerApp to a SharePoint library using Flow. There have been many wonderful workarounds to do this, finally we now have a slightly less Heath-Robinson method.

Flow/How to/PowerApps

13th June 2019

Power BI – Conditional Formatting Update

The June 2019 update for Power BI included a few updates for conditional formatting, for visual backgrounds, titles, cards and gauges. This post is my take on the updates and on how I prefer to do the logic behind choosing a colour. Full details of the June 2019 update can be found at https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-june-2019-feature-summary/ Applying Conditional Formatting This update added...

Power BI/Updates

8th June 2019

SVG in Power BI – Part 5 – Creating a dial

In this post I will introduce the possibilities that SVG rotate gives. This post will walk through creating a dial.

Power BI/SVG

7th June 2019

PowerApps – Transparency Update

Post describing the update to ColorValue to include transparency and the addition of transparent colour.

PowerApps/Updates

22nd May 2019

SVG in Power BI – Part 4 – Adding Text

This is the fourth post in my series on using SVG in Power BI introducing SVG text and actually solves one of the niggles I had with doing KPI figures in Power BI. I didn’t get to do this part as part of my session which started this series. Here is the list of posts.

Power BI/SVG