Category: Power BI

Copilot for Power BI: Your Ultimate Copilot Guide

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Have you used Copilot for Power BI? Do you know there are different copilots within Power BI? Carly joins us for the ultimate Copilot for Power BI guide!

Overview of Copilot for Power BI (preview)
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/create-reports/copilot-introduction

Create report pages with Copilot for the Power BI service
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/create-reports/copilot-create-report

Create a narrative with Copilot for Power BI
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/create-reports/copilot-create-narrative?tabs=powerbi-service

Summarize a report page in the Copilot pane
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/create-reports/copilot-pane-summarize-content

Use Copilot to create measure descriptions (preview)
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/transform-model/desktop-measure-copilot-descriptions?toc=%2Fpower-bi%2Fcreate-reports%2FTOC.json&bc=%2Fpower-bi%2Fcreate-reports%2Fbreadcrumb%2Ftoc.json

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CALCULATE Deep Dive

Posted on by Annie D

Understand the difference between table functions and CALCULATE modifiers and how to use them correctly

Details of what you will learn during this video:
– Learn how to establish an order of evaluation in CALCULATE parameters
– Understand the difference between table functions and CALCULATE modifiers and how to use them correctly
– Evaluate a table expression in the context of a FILTER/CALCULATETABLE
– Observe how context transition is performed by operating the CALCULATE and CALCULATETABLE functions
– Discover how large data sets are transformed by nested CALCULATE functions and generate unexpected results

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Exploring Dynamic Subscriptions for Power BI reports

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First, we had dynamic subscriptions for Power BI Paginated reports. Now they are available for Power BI reports! Patrick walks you through how to take advantage of them!

Dynamic per recipient subscriptions for reports (Preview)
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/collaborate-share/power-bi-dynamic-report-subscriptions

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🔴 Microsoft Fabric / Power BI Q&A – LIVE (Mar 30, 2024) (Member Chat 2nd Half)

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Join us live as we answer your questions about Microsoft Fabric (including Power BI)! Get your questions in the chat early as we don’t get to all of them.

💥 30 minutes: Open Q&A (Public)
💥 Then… Members Only Chat (Public can watch & Super Chat for Questions)

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👉 Super chats take priority
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How to connect to Microsoft Fabric Items from Power BI Desktop?

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If you’re in Power BI Desktop, how do you actually connect to Microsoft Fabric items like a lakehouse or warehouse? Adam walks you through different options and how this relates to various connectors.

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Decoding Direct Lake: The Truth Behind DirectQuery Fallback

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Direct Lake in Power BI could possibly fall back to DirectQuery. Do you understand why this would happen and when? Patrick walks you though what you need to know when leveraging data from OneLake in Microsoft Fabric.

Direct Lake
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/enterprise/directlake-overview

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Everything About Power BI Security

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Master the Row Level Security, Report Security, Workspace & App Security, Object Level Security and Internal & External Sharing.

Details of what you will learn during this video:
– Workspace & App Security
– Dataflow & Dataset Security
– Report Security
– Row Level Security
– Object Level Security
– Internal & External Sharing

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🔴 Microsoft Fabric / Power BI Q&A – LIVE (Mar 16, 2024) (Member Chat 2nd Half)

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Join us live as we answer your questions about Microsoft Fabric (including Power BI)! Get your questions in the chat early as we don’t get to all of them.

💥 30 minutes: Open Q&A (Public)
💥 Then… Members Only Chat (Public can watch & Super Chat for Questions)

📢 RULES FOR Q&A: 📢

👉 Put a “Q:” in front of your comment to help us identify questions!
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Include in Refresh can trip you up within Power Query

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You disabled Include In Refresh in Power Query, but it’s still being used? And you still need to provide credentials for your Power BI Semantic Mode? What?!? Adam breaks down what’s going on.

Managing query refresh in Power BI
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/connect-data/refresh-include-in-report-refresh

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Rethinking Dashboard Design

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Understand the concept and anatomy of the Analytics Hub concept in Power BI and showcase modern prototyping and wireframing

Details of what you will learn during this video:
– Understand – the concept and anatomy of the Analytics Hub concept in Power BI
– Know – the tools that support us in creating an Analytics Hub such as development of HTML elements, design web applications, & browser-based UI and UX design applications
– Discover – a straightforward approach to creating reusable components for personalizing dashboards
– Showcase – modern prototyping and wireframing

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Dive into Microsoft Fabric’s Power BI Direct Lake

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Let’s break down Power BI Direct Lake in Microsoft Fabric and explain how you can leverage one copy of the data from OneLake. Patrick explains!

Direct Lake
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/enterprise/directlake-overview

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Getting started with Visual Calcs in Power BI

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It’s been a long time coming but Visual Calculations within Power BI are here!!! Jay joins us to get us started on using Visual Calcs within our reports.

Share your thoughts on visual calculations (preview)
https://aka.ms/visual-calculations-feedback

Using visual calculations (preview)
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/transform-model/desktop-visual-calculations-overview

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