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. Categories Power Query/M/Power BI
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. Categories 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. Categories Power BI/How to
9th March 2020 Power BI – Reset Slicers with a Bookmark Button When your report has a bunch of slicers and charts that can also add filters to the page resetting back to no filters can be painful. So we need a quick way to reset slicers. This post walks through the steps of creating a bookmark and the using that bookmark to reset the page by clicking a button. Introduction This... Categories Power BI/Introduction
6th March 2020 Power BI – Slicers Introduction Power BI reports can be made more flexible using simple slicers to allow your report consumers to slice and dice the data shown. Categories Power BI
21st January 2020 Power BI – Connecting to Project Online This post walks through connecting to Project Online to visualise the data in Power BI. This is the first post in a series of building a set of reports. Categories Power BI/Project
6th October 2019 Power Query Functions – SQL Procedures This is the fourth post in my series regarding writing custom functions in Power Query. This post describes how to create a function that will execute an SQL procedure, passing in a parameter. Stored Procedure My database contains a very simple procedure that given a cost center returns all the expense records. It can be run with the following SQL... Categories Power BI/M/Power Query
5th October 2019 Power Query Functions – Fetch web data Often web based data is split across multiple pages. This post describes how to use a function to fetch web data from multiple pages by using parameters. Categories Power BI/M/Power Query
29th September 2019 Power Query – Multi-step Function This post describes how to build a multiple step function in M using a parameter and using create function to build the function code. Categories Power BI/M/Power Query
27th September 2019 Power Query – Custom Handwritten Function In this post I will write a simple custom handwritten function to perform a calculation, which can then be used in your queries. Categories Power BI/Intermediate/M/Power Query