Hat Full of Data

25th February 2023

Power BI – 5 Stars SVG

In the Feb 2023 Power BI Update they introduced image width in a table formatting. This means SVG images now don’t have to be square, so we can now do rectangle images. So I ported Stars SVG code I had in my Power Apps series and added this post to my Power BI SVG series For this post we are...

Power BI/SVG

24th November 2022

Power BI – Take over a Dataset

People change jobs, move projects so that dataset is no longer part of their job. So another accounts need to take over that dataset.

Power BI

22nd November 2022

Power BI Connecting to Google Analytics

Power BI has a Google Analytics connector. This blog post is to walk through building a simple report on my blog visitors.

Power BI

1st November 2022

Power BI – Switch Dataverse Tenancy

Occasionally you need to change to point to a different tenancy which means changing a connector to switch Dataverse tenancy.

Dataverse/Power BI

24th September 2022

Power BI & Dataverse – Choices and Choice Column

When a choice column is created in Dataverse, you can create a custom list of values which you want in Power BI as a table.

Dataverse/Power BI

1st September 2022

Power BI Dataverse Connector – July 2022 Update

In the July 2022 Power BI update, they updated the Dataverse connector. The connector now uses the display names from a Dataverse table. Dataverse columns have internal name and display names and previously the display names were not available. YouTube Version For those who prefer a video version. New Connection Let’s start with a brand new Dataverse connection. When you...

Dataverse/Power BI

14th July 2022

Power Automate Child Flow

Occasionally it is useful to break your flow apart into separate flows. For this you need to create a child flow or two. There is one tweak I always forget, hence this post. Create the Child Flow When building child flows you need to follow these rules Child flows need to be built inside a solution The trigger needs to...

Flow/Power Automate

27th June 2022

Charticulator Resources

Creating custom visuals using the Charticulator in Power BI is not easy. So here are some some Charticulator resources I’ve used to skill up.

Charticulator/Power BI

7th January 2022

Charticulator Simple Custom Chart

In late 2021, the Charticulator visual was added to Power BI desktop. This post walks through creating a Charticulator Simple Custom Chart. The chart will show the drink preference split of 20 office colleagues. The steps assume you already have connected to the data. The data is available for download or direct connection here: https://hatfullofdata.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Drinks.xlsx YouTube Video It’s coming! Adding...

Charticulator/Power BI

29th August 2021

Refreshing datasets automatically with dataflows

I have a report, Open Issues, that has a Power BI dataflow as a data source. If I just use scheduled refreshes my options are limited. I could schedule the dataflow to refresh at 10am and the next slot available for the report dataset to refresh would be 10:30am. I need to be refreshing datasets automatically after the dataflow has...

Dataflow/Power Automate/Power BI