Laura Graham-Brown

1st August 2020

Power BI – Endorse a Dataset as Promoted or Certified

Connecting to an existing dataset is highly recommended if possible. To encourage report builders to select the right datasets you can endorse a dataset.

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25th July 2020

Power BI – Gradient Legends

The July 2020 update to Power BI introduced a new feature of Gradient Legends to help annotate the colours used in a colour scale conditional formatting.

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15th July 2020

Power BI – Introducing Sync Slicers

How many reports have duplicate slicers across the pages and the report reader has to re-apply the slicer values on each page? Sync slicers fixes the problem.

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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

Reactor – 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 Recording will go here…. Data Used at Reactorand Final File Data in a single Excel File Final PBIX File Links to great Resources

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.

PowerApps/How to/Power BI/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.

Power Query/M/Power BI

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 Responsive App In the video and for my example I design the app based on a the larger size and...