Hi everyone, Today we’re going to learn how to get more advanced with our Table visual column hiding (or showing). This post is kind of a continuation from the previous How To Post about how to control column visibility. Click here to check that post out… there’s stuff…
Today on How To Use Power BI we’re going to learn a really simple solution to a really common conundrum in the Power BI Table visual. If you spend any time on a Power BI forum / subreddit / whatever, you’ll eventually (or frequently) see someone asking the question…
Hey everyone, This post is all about the MAX function in DAX, which does exactly what you think it does… it finds the maximum value in a column of values. We’re going to use a very simple Power BI report (in both the video and the written post below) to…
Everything you need to know about Line Charts! Once you’ve connected to some data, you may want to build a Line Chart. Line Charts are easy to build, and more importantly, they are easy for people to understand.Line charts are excellent for showing data that has a time-based element. They…
Power BI is an extremely powerful piece of software, so it’s especially disappointing when Microsoft bills it as “data visualization” software and completely fails on small (but essential) things that take Data Viz from existing to excellent. This post explores one of these fails. We’re going to use a simple…
We’re going to learn a formatting tip in this edition of How To Use Power BI and it’s specifically about an annoying formatting limitation that is turned on in Power BI by default. There *IS* a very good reason for this limitation, but it doesn’t need to be on…
You probably don’t need legends on your Line Charts. Series Labels are an option on Line and Area charts and allows you to get rid of your Legend. Why would you want to get rid of your legend? We’ll cover that too! We’re going to use a Power BI report with…
We’re continuing our series of posts about connecting data with how to connect to data on a website! It’s nice and easy to connect to data on a website the data is nicely structured in some kind of table. So, it’s just like connecting to other kinds of data… Power…
This post is a Hot Tip post, helping you solve something in Power BI. Specifically, this post is about a user interface design flaw in the (relatively) new Card visual, and we run across it when we try to change the display units of a number in the visual. So,…
Did you ever have a large DAX calculation that had something (a column, another measure, etc) mentioned many times and when you had to change that item you had to select each one, one-at-a-time, and edit each one, one-at-a-time, and you thought “there’s gotta be a better way…?!” Good news!…