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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...)
Power BI Date Time Format
BY: David Rohlfs Introduction Dates and times are one of the most utilized and important aspects of many reports. Attaching dates to sales or product categories or service allows you to do so much more with the data than having a stagnate amount. While... (more...)
Power BI Creating a Theme
BY: David Rohlfs Introduction One of the fun parts of building a report is when you are designing the pages themselves. When designing the report, you get to make a page layout, choose your visuals, and set the theme of your report. Although creating... (more...)
Power BI Basic Relationship Building
BY: David Rohlfs Introduction Relationships are very confusing at first, but as you grow in your skills with Power BI relationships can be an easier aspect of building your report. Relationships connect two or more queries within Power BI and can help... (more...)
Power BI Conditional Column
BY: David Rohlfs Introduction Conditional Columns are a function that is meant to use operational if statements in Power BI. It can be very helpful because it creates a new column that is referenced from an existing column. In this article you will learn... (more...)
Power BI Remove Duplicates
BY: David Rohlfs Introduction Having duplicates (or multiple occurrences) of a data field in your data can become a big issue very quickly. It can make your data inaccurate and not credible. There is an easy built-in way to check for duplicates in Power... (more...)
Power BI Counting Text
BY: David Rohlfs Introduction Counting Text in Power BI is oddly difficult if you don’t know how to do it. So, this blog explains how to do exactly that and tells you when it is best to use this, common problems that are encountered, and has a walkthrough... (more...)