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Recently the PowerApps team released a new feature in preview – Components. I was really looking forward to the availability of this feature. An excellent reason to share my experience trying…

(2019-Jan-28) When you work with maps using ArcGIS visual in Power BI, you always have a feeling that it is a tool within another tool. O...

Temple of DAX – 3D (@PhilSeamark) Curbal Tech News on Dataflows (@CurbalEN) Power BI Roadmap Announcements In The April 2019 Release Notes (@cwebb_bi) Business Applications Release Notes On-premises d…

Within PowerApps there is an experimental feature that could be quite useful. Note that you shouldn't use this in a production app unless you don't mind being disturbed while you are on holiday. Formu…

Today morning (08:00 am Austrian time on a Sunday) I had the pleasure of presenting a session at the Virtual Power BI Days (2019-01 edition). Power BI Days are an event (mainly) organized by Jan Mulke…

The new “Populate a Microsoft Word template” action in Flow that was released last week got me thinking: apart from the obvious mail-merge applications, this could be used to build reports in Word! He…

Within PowerApps there are many expressions, all these expressions are nicely listed in alphabetical order. This can be useful if you know what you are looking for but if you don’t know what …

Canviz is excited to be part of the growing PowerApps community and we're doing our part to help foster it's growth. Learn more about our contributions.

The new Word Online (Business) connector lets you work with Word files in document libraries supported by Microsoft Graph to generate files from templates and create PDF versions of files.

This question has come up more than I can count, so I am doing a super quick blog post to answer it for folks. Many people are well aware of the limitations around exporting data in Power BI t…

<p>For regular readers of this blog, you may recall a blog post by Carlos Figueira on working with SQL server time values. In it, Carlos used the Mid, Find, Substitute, and other functions…

We are excited to launch the public preview of the Data Gateway feature on the Power platform admin center; This feature provides tenant admins with visibility into all On-premises data gateways wi…

This article describes the real meaning of and the required action for a few common error messages that can appear when users define DAX expressions in Powe

The Temple of DAX is in 3D. Check out this new game from Phil Seamark where we are able to navigate a maze in 3D using DAX expressions.

In this video, Adam shows an easier approach to get a Power BI Embed Token using PowerShell. This removes the headache of writing code or having to worry about an authentication token. Power BI Embedded Playground Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod Documentation GenerateToken for Reports in a Group PowerShell download

In this video, Patrick looks at the new Power BI Secure Embed. If you have been using Publish to Web internally, you need to look at this feature as it is the perfect replacement that adds a secure option for easy, frictionless, embedding.

Until recently, AppSource offered only Power BI visuals that had no cost associated with them. In order to promote visuals containing advanced features and support a funding model for their development, we’re excited to announce that Power BI custom visuals with additional purchases is now available in AppSource!

My series about common patterns for loading data using Power Query received quite a lot of interest over the last few weeks. You can review those articles in the links below Combine all files in a…

Today we are happy to announce our January update of Power BI Report Server! This release has many highly anticipated features such as copy and pasting between pbix files, expand & collapse on …

In some cases, you might want to split your report and data model into separate Power BI Desktop files. For example, to work in together on the same content or create multiple reports based on the sam…

<p>We are excited to launch the public preview of the Data Gateway feature on the Power platform admin center; This feature provides tenant admins with visibility into all On-premises data gatew…

<p>For the last few months we have been rolling out new features for Canvas apps when connected to the Common Data Service for Apps: One-to-Many relationships Option sets Many-to-Many relationsh…

<p>A lot of you would have come across a scenario where you want to bulk update records. Maybe you are taking some images and want to upload them all at once. Or you want to flip the flags withi…

In my previous blog , I explained how to filter active and inactive records based on value selected...

In the previous article, I mentioned what is the Dataflow, how it can be helpful, and mentioned some of the use cases of it in real-world Power BI implementation. In this article as the second part of…