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.

10th July 2020

Power BI – Personalize Visuals

The May 2020 update for Power BI includes the option for a report reader to personalize visuals and save the changes as a bookmark.

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22nd June 2020

Power BI Introduction Resources

This post is to support my virtual session at London Reactor on 22nd June. It will include the recording and links to the data source and the final Power BI Report. Link to Reactor Recording will go here…. Data Used and Final File Data in a single Excel File Final PBIX File Links to great Resources Guy in a Cube...

Power BI

3rd June 2020

The Anxious MVP

The buzz of being nominated for an MVP is great, adding the community activities you do with passion all working towards what is built up to being a huge a goal. Hopefully eventually you get the email we’ve all seen in social media to say you’ve been awarded an MVP. You put out the messages saying how humbled, honoured, happy...

Community

31st May 2020

Power Apps – Embed a Power BI Chart

This post covers how to embed a Power BI chart from a published report into a Power App, handling a tile that doesn’t appear and then filtering the embedded chart.

How to/Power BI/PowerApps/YouTube

15th April 2020

Power Query – Replace values for whole table

Today’s challenge was to replace the values on all the columns in the query when I know the columns will change so I don’t want to name them.

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9th April 2020

Power Apps – Build a responsive app – Adding Dynamic Containers

In this post we will use dynamic containers to arrange out content so it moves to the planned location at the different screen sizes. We will need to calculate the screen size and then use it to position and size the containers. This post assumes you’ve done everything in the first 2 posts. Calculate Screen Size In order to make...

PowerApps

8th April 2020

Power Apps – Build a Responsive App – Initial Setup

A responsive app resizes the app based on the browser window and moves parts of the app to make the app work in different screen sizes. The most common sizes to handle are monitor, tablet and mobile phone. Create the App In the video and for my example I design the app based on a the larger size and then...

PowerApps

8th April 2020

Power Apps – Build a Responsive App – Planning

Before you start a responsive app you need to plan where each element will be on the screen at the different screen sizes. Planning is vital.

PowerApps

3rd April 2020

Power BI – COALESCE Function to Remove Blanks

This post walks through a simple use of the coalesce function to prevent a measure returning Blank. This function was introduced to Power BI in March 2020.

Power BI

25th March 2020

Power BI – Introducing the Hierarchy Slicer

The new hierarchy slicer allows for data to be sliced based on different levels. This will reduce the number of slicers required on a report page.

How to/Power BI