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As you can see I'm learning all sorts of Power Platform stuff. In this article, we will go through the new Cards (preview) functionality. I choose to try it out with a simple scenario. Let's create a simple card to gather information about food allergies. Log into make.powerapps and from the menu on the left select Cards. Then go to +Create a card. A new tab will open and you'll need to name your card. I used HR and then renamed it to HR_FoodAllergies. Once you are done, select Create. This scre

Between Nov 15 and Nov 29, 2022, Power Apps Ideas will migrate to a brand-new platform powered by Dynamics 365 Customer Service Community.  On top of providing our community with a brand-new interface to share ideas, the migration will enable our product teams to be much more responsive to user feedback and better integrate your … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-ways-to-share-power-apps-community-forum-ideas/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “New ways to share Power Apps community forum ideas “</span></a></p>

Adaptive Cards for Power Apps (Power Apps Cards are evolving the Adaptive Cards story), Update on 3P Widgets (available in WindowsAppSDK v1.2 GA), Future Adaptive Cards Community Calls (part of Microsoft 365 platform call) and Q&A.

A tool for visualizing and analyzing a Power BI report's performance. - m-kovalsky/ReportAnalyzer

A lot of people are building large datasets in Power BI Premium nowadays, and if you’re building a large dataset you’re very likely to be using Power BI’s incremental refresh func…

What mistakes Power BI / data visualization beginners, who learned (a bit of) a BI tool from a YouTube video, make? They have no idea … Read More

Defining In-Script Classes for Tabular Editor C# Scripts is key to write better scripts. Preparing the code in Visual Studio is the best approach.

Graphics created using the Vega-Lite language. Contribute to shadfrigui/vega-lite development by creating an account on GitHub.

Power BI table visuals with a visual-level filter applied may perform worse than expected, and applying the filter inside your measures may improve performance

ClientCacheRefreshPolicy is now a configurable property for your Power BI Premium workspaces. Admins can override scheduled cache refresh settings for an entire workspace, improving the performance of their semantic models.

Author:  is a Principal Program Manager in the Azure Synapse Customer Success Engineering (CSE) team.   Introduction Following up on the previous blog Demystifying Azure Synapse Data Explorer, this blog continues the series of demystifying Data Explorer with a focus on data ingestion.   Azure Synaps...

No More Copying/Pasting Passwords in Power BI Desktop Unlike Office Microsoft 365 desktop applications, Power BI Desktop doesn't keep track of more than one account at a time, which is quite annoying for people like myself who work across several tenants. Like many people I use a password manager, and for years I had to

Figma design systems are an excellent resource for BI developers who want to deliver well-designed dashboards.

A well-structured learning program is also needed to develop a data storytelling mindset and enhance the workforce’s data literacy.

You can schedule a Power BI Dataset to be refreshed at any time you want using Power Automate to do this for you!

A dummy’s guide to simplifying and understanding the Power BI Ecosystem

Query to Power BI/Excel from KE/KWE Both Kusto explorer and Kusto web explorer, include an option to use a query as a basis to a Power BI report.Until recently the feature copied text to the Clipboard and this text could be pasted into a blank query.Already in Kusto Explorer (KE) and soon in Kusto We

We are excited to announce that we have 16 new Independent Publisher connectors that were published in October 2022. Read about the connectors, learn about the talented publishers, and take a look at the connector files!

Learn how to upgrade your ribbon charts to prioritize the rank between categories . We'll use a bit of DAX magic mixed with some Calculation Group wizardry to achieve this result in Power BI Desktop. Tune in to learn more! Video by: Reid Havens

We are excited to announce the Azure Data Factory (ADF) Learning Center! The Learning Center is a new central location where you can find useful learning resources like the latest features updates, getting started tutorials, best practice videos, training modules, product links, and more. This featu...

Have you ever wondered if you can apply conditional formatting based on a text field/measure instead of a numeric field/measure? If your answer is yes, then this trick is for you! The other day I was working with a customer who asked something that I had no idea how to build. They wanted to apply conditional formatting over some of their visuals, but they wanted the conditional formatting applied over a text field and not over a numeric field or a measure. Let me give you a practical example. Im

One of the biggest questions we get here at Viva Goals is: I understand the value of OKRs—but how do I actually make them work in my business?    We have a good answer for this one: By building OKRs into your organization's existing business rituals—like team meetings and town halls—and existing sys...

A conclusion and extra resources of the Power BI adoption roadmap series of articles.

Office Scripts are an online version of VBA. Built to run in Excel online, it is similar to...

Horizontal fusion is a new optimization technique available in DAX to reduce the number of storage engine queries. In this article, we introduce this optimi

We are thrilled to announce that based on your feedback, we have decided to bring back the feature that allowed app consumers to save copies of reports to their My Workspace. Further, app authors can now by default collapse the app navigation pane for their app consumer.

All Power Apps forms should perform data validation, have error handling, protect against lost of unsaved data and restrict input values.

Welcome to Azure Data Factory’s October monthly update! Here we’ll share the latest updates on what’s new in Azure Data Factory. You can also find all our updates on our What's New in ADF page.    We’ll also be hosting our monthly livestream next week on November 10th at 10:30am PST/ 1:30pm EST! Joi...

Learn to use these 3 Power Automate error-handling patterns: 1. Try, Catch Finally, 2. Terminate Actions, 3. Get the Flow Run URL.

In this post I will show how to call Dataverse Custom APIs from a Canvas App with the use of a generic Power Automate Flow and the new ParseJSON functionality.