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Picking up right where we left off in Part 1, lets get in and edit this Flow to add new connections! We will start with adding an action Yammer Post Message and add a Flow post to All company group. In the message text, we will add Title and Description from the SharePoint dynamic content. Next we...

“PowerApps help us help our business” – Manuela Pichler, Business Systems Development Manager, IT Lite team In this post we’ll take a deep dive look into the successful adoption of the Power Platform at Virgin Atlantic. We’ll start with a Safety and Compliance App, followed by their centralized administration approach to view and manage apps … Continue reading “Virgin Atlantic drives agile wins for its mobile workforce with the Power Platform”

Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 reached general availability on February 7, 2019. This post will help you understand its advantages and what you need to know to get started.

In this tip we will learn bout the Pie Chart Tree visualization in Power BI to analyze hierarchical distributions using a tree-based approach.

How Power BI handles data privacy for cloud or web-based data sources after a dataset has been published, and it prompted yet more revelations…

Last week Microsoft released a preview of the Template Apps - A new experience that was designed for partners and ISVs to deliver streamlined analytics to their clients. By now, you should be able to …

I have given many presentations and talks about Data Visualization, and still, I am amazed by how many visualizations I see which is not following the basic rules. In this article, I want to focus on …

The weekly Power BI Roundup details the latest updates that have happened between 14 - 21 Feb 2019. With Template Apps, Developer update and others

Microsoft has released Components as an experimental feature in PowerApps and of course, this has made me very excited. This makes me really happy 😍 I was looking forward to this. @PowerApps Componen…

This blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI Developers community. Don’t forget to check out our latest developer blog post, if you haven’t done so already. Embedded analytics …

We were recently building a data model with on-prem Dynamics data mostly using the OData feed (v8.2). This article only scratches the surface of what is possible with OData (including update/write functions and much more complex queries than those shown here), but we did pick up a few tricks that were worth

Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 was made generally available on February 7th. In short, ADLS Gen2 is the best of the previous version of ADLS (now called ADLS Gen1) and Azure Blob Storage. ADLS…

Microsoft Flow is the workflow tool in Office 365 to automate your tasks and business processes, whether your systems are on-premises, in Microsoft’s cloud, or even if they are not part of Microsoft’s…

Data is most valuable when it leads to informed action. Making it easier for people to get actionable insights is what Power BI is all about. Now, with Power BI Template Apps, users can immediately…

What is a Custom Function in Power Query / Power BI, why we should use it whereas possible and what benefits it provides to our UX.

Getting set up When I heard about custom data connectors for Power Query, I had assumed there would be a lot of work involved. While there is definitely quite a bit of work in implementing advanced fe…

This post explains how to use Power BI DAX measures in an efficient way, when there are multiple disconnected slicers that you want to use.

Data Profiling, in other words identifying the sources and checking the quality of the data is a part of a BI project. But how important it is and how much it effect to the success of a BI project? Th…

This article describes how to display the filter context applied to a calculation using a special DAX measure in Power BI Tooltips. Understanding the filte

Thanks for watching this week’s Power BI news roundup! Last weeks roundup 2 Minute Tuesday Patrick’s tech video Adam’s tech video Sources SYNC SLICERS & SYNC SLICERS ADVANCED OPTIONS (@pkamasani) Defi…

Yet more evidence that Power Query is taking over the world: there’s a new Power Query data source for SQL Server Integration Services in the latest version of SSDT. Here’s the blog post announcing it…

Since I started focusing primarily on Microsoft BI/DW/analytics around 2005, I've always been happy being a generalist within that space. Fast forward to around 2017 when I started focusing predominan…

I’ve finally updated my Power BI Architecture Diagram to include some of the new features that are now available and will soon be available. There are three new updates I made to the diagram in v4.…

<p>Today, we rolled out a new feature. You can share an app with a set of users in the company by simply copy and paste their names or emails instead of typing the full name for each indivi…

A new splitter function has been discovered in Power Query (by Chris Webb and also others probably) which is not in the highlight notes of the February 2019 PBI release, but it is a very nice addit…

Welcome to Power BI Monthly Digest for February 2019! We’ve got some fun, new things to share in this February release, including one that doesn’t happen very often, but you’ll have to keep reading…

<p>There&#8217;s a fancy new item in the tree view and its name is &#8220;App&#8221;. This App item is not a control, but is permanently there and contains properties of your a…

Introduction The Flow in this article will show you how you can use Page Approval Flow in SharePoint Online to create an approval process to post news items on your intranet and extend them to all the…