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.

23rd November 2020

Power BI Dataflow – Refresh History

Find out which entity took the longest or caused the error in a refresh by looking at the refresh history of a dataflow in Power BI.

Dataflow/Power BI

21st November 2020

Power BI Dataflow – New Diagram View

The new diagram view feature introduced Nov 2020, produces a brilliant diagram of how the queries and parameters relate within the dataflow.

Dataflow/Power BI

21st November 2020

Power BI Dataflows – Endorsement as Promoted and Certified

Inform your users as to which dataflow to use by using Endorsement. This allows you to label a dataflow as promoted or certified.

Dataflow/Power BI

15th November 2020

Power BI – Tea & Biscuits Session at London Reactor

This post is to support my virtual introduction to Power BI session for London Reactor on 16th November 2020.

Power BI/Power Query

9th November 2020

Power BI – Scheduled Refresh for your Dataflow.

Most dataflows needs to have scheduled refresh setup so that the data will be up to date ready for the reports connecting to it.

Dataflow/How to/Power BI

3rd November 2020

Power BI – Create a Dataflow for Reusable Transforms

Create a Dataflow is a great way to give your report writers reusable transforms that doesn’t require data logins for every report writer.

How to/Power BI

12th October 2020

Power BI – Analyse Titanic Data with AI Visuals

This is a post to support my session at the Reactor on 12th October 2020. The session was aimed at newcomers to Power BI and the AI visuals. Below is a link to the video on Reactor’s YouTube channel Data Sources The session uses 2 data sources, the passenger list for the Titanic and an Excel file to add some...

How to/Power BI/YouTube

2nd September 2020

Power BI Introduction – Weather Report Resources

Here are links to resources I used for the Power BI Introduction session at London Reactor on Wednesday 2nd September 2020.

Power BI

22nd August 2020

Power BI – Import text using examples

Import text using examples was introduced in the 2020 August update for Power BI. It writes the Power Query steps to transform a non-tabular text file into a table.

Power BI/Power Query

15th August 2020

Power BI – Q&A Synonyms Update

Q&A allows report readers to ask questions regarding the report data. Natural language interpretation can be improved by using Q&A synonyms.

Power BI/Updates