Microsoft Fabric – Create a Lakehouse

Lakehouses are one of the main building blocks in Microsoft Fabric. A lakehouse allows you to store structured and unstructured data in a single location. In this post we are going to create an empty one. Future posts will populate it. YouTube Version Empty Workspace with a Fabric Capacity We start in an empty workspace that has a capacity assigned...

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Power Automate – Get data from a Power BI dataset

Power BI datasets contain a rich useful data resource that would be really useful in a Power Automate flow. In this post we will walk through how to get data from a Power BI dataset and then email that data. This is just one example of how you could use data fetched from a Power BI dataset behind a report....

Power BI – Creating a Custom Smart Narrative

Power BI desktop includes the Smart Narrative visual. This will summarise a page or visual in your report for you. Often though the summary it produces is not the summary you would have written. This post will show you how to write your own custom smart narrative that updates and filters exactly the same as the standard smart narrative. YouTube...

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Power Platform Solution and Power BI – Part 3

In Part 1 we added Power BI to the Power Platform solution and then in Part 2 we added a dashboard. This is post we will embed the report into a form and filter the report to match the context of the form. For this we will use the Accounts form and filter the expenses report to only show the...

Featured image of post Power Platform Solution and Power BI – Part 1

Power Platform Solution and Power BI – Part 1

Power BI reports can be an important part of a Power Platform solution. Microsoft has added a new feature to Power Platform Solutions to add a Power BI dataset and report. Then you can add the Power BI report in as a dashboard or as an embedded report in a form and add context filtering. Part 1 will cover adding...

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Using SQL on Dataverse for Power BI

SQL (Structured Query Language) has been used to get data in and out of databases for decades. Dataverse is a database. So lets use SQL on Dataverse to fetch data into a report. This can simplify our queries and make a direct query report easier to write. YouTube Version Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio There are multiple tools available to...

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Power BI – Embed a Paginated Report

Within a Power BI report you can embed a paginated report. Values can be passed to the paginated report to populate parameters. The paginated report can be exported by a report consumer. YouTube Version Paginated Report For this post we are going to use a paginated report connected to restaurant sales data. The report shows daily total dishes sold and...

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