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Power BI Bookmarks
BY: David Rohlfs Introduction Bookmarks are a great way to advance your knowledge in Power BI Desktop. Using bookmarks, you can create links between pages that let your end user jump to other pages. This is very helpful because it allows the report builder... (more...)
Power BI – Top N
BY: Morgan Lundeen Introduction Power BI Desktop has several levels of filters that can narrow-down and clarify large amounts of data. There are filters for individual visuals, for the entire page, or for all pages. One helpful visual-level filter to... (more...)
Power BI – Significant Digits on a Number Field
BY: Morgan Lundeen Introduction When loading data into Power BI Desktop, the observations will retain all the original decimal values, but when creating tables or other visuals, observations with several decimal values may automatically be rounded to... (more...)
Power BI – Adding a Visual
BY: Morgan Lundeen Introduction One of the most important aspects of Power BI Desktop is the ability to add visuals to accurately represent the data and its insights. Power BI Desktop already has over thirty visuals on the platform that are ready to use,... (more...)
Power BI Row Specific Columns
BY: David Rohlfs Introduction One of the most important aspects of Power BI Desktop is the ability to relate tables together so that you can build complex slicers, graphs, and data. To do this there needs to be a column dedicated to each row so that you... (more...)
Power BI Understanding the Basics of Using Variables in DAX
BY: David Rohlfs Introduction One of the most difficult aspects of using DAX when you are still learning is understanding the syntax of what you are writing. Fortunately, variables can help to solve this issue. While variables have many purposes and can... (more...)
Power BI Using the Analytics Tabs for Visuals
BY: David Rohlfs Introduction There are a lot of features in Power BI that a report builder can overlook or forget about when they build a report. One of those features will often be the Analytics tab in the Visualizations pane. This pane can add static... (more...)
Power BI Tooltips
BY: David Rohlfs Introduction When building a report, the report builder usually knows the data very well, and can build very complex reports because of it. But this doesn’t help the end user if they can’t understand what the report builder is trying... (more...)
Power BI Buttons
BY: David Rohlfs Introduction There are many times when you want to show a hyperlink or promote quick access to another page or source; in these situations, I enjoy using Buttons. Buttons are great to allow an end-user to work with the report with more... (more...)
Power BI Drill Through
BY: David Rohlfs Introduction One of the harder elements of creating a report for someone is getting all the information on the page that you need. Unfortunately, there isn’t a great way to solve the issue of space unless you make your tiles smaller,... (more...)