2023-2024 Archives - Page 2 of 2

7th July 2023

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...

Power BI

22nd May 2023

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...

Dataverse/Power BI

20th May 2023

Power Platform Solution and Power BI – Part 2

In Part 1 we added a Power BI to a Power Platform Solution. In Part 2 we will create a dashboard and add it to the model driven app.

Dataverse/Power BI/PowerApps

19th May 2023

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...

Dataverse/Power BI/PowerApps

26th April 2023

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...