Chris Webb's BI Blog: How Defining Too Many Measures In A Live Connection Report Can Affect Power BI Query Performance Chris Webb's BI Blog
You probably know that it’s a best practice to build your Power BI datasets in a separate .pbix file from your reports – among other things it means that different people can develop th…
Welcome to the August 2021 update, can you believe that it’s August already?! In this update we have exciting new things for Q&A as well as for Shapes. Also, new this month is Automatic aggregations for DirectQuery. There is more to explore, please continue to read on.
We often have our data spread out in different Excel workbooks and sheets. How do we combine all of them into one table? Let’s walk through an example. We have our data saved in a folder with three files: 2019.xlsx, 2020.xlsx, and 2021.xlsx. You can download the files here. Each file contains three sheets: AC, …
Custom Pages: A step towards disappearing lines between Canvas Apps and Model Driven Apps in Power Platform / Dynamics 365 CRM | Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM Tips and Tricks
Canvas Apps – Design first approach – more for the field users with a mobile experience with simple to use and easily accessible apps being designed to serve specific purpose.
Visualise your Power BI Refresh - Phil Seamark on DAX
Have you ever wondered why a Power BI dataset refresh was taking so long? And more specifically, how much time did the refresh spend on various sub-tasks that aren’t that visible to you via the …
Power BI - Solution to 'This dataset includes a dynamic data source ... this dataset won't be refreshed.'
I’m pulling data from GitHub Codeowners into a Power BI report. All was dandy locally, but refresh failed on the PBI service with this:This dataset includes a dynamic data source. Since dynamic data sources aren’t
New task based and overview videos published for Dataverse and Dataverse for Teams
A new batch of task based and overview videos have been published for Dataverse and Dataverse for Teams. These videos offer a helpful starting point for new users, and also provide some tips and tricks that could benefit existing users.
Using Subflows in Power Automate Desktop – Devin Knight
In this video Devin continues building on a previously created Power Automate Desktop Flow design and shows how to leverage Subflows to better organize your work and make repeatable flow parts. Bui…
A new look for the Power BI in-product store coming with August release!  In the store you can browse all the visuals authorized by your organization.
Create a Power Automate custom connector from Postman V2 Collection – Mohamed Ashiq Faleel
Postman collections makes the creation of custom connectors in Power Automate easier & quicker. As of time I am writing this article, to create a custom connector using Postman collection in Po…
Choice Aviation modernizes cargo handling operations using Microsoft Power Platform
Choice Aviation Services is a US-based international airline cargo company. They used Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI along with Azure services to modernize air cargo operations and improve freight processing times by over 80 percent.
Announcing public preview of Custom Pages for converging model-driven apps and canvas apps
Announcing the public preview of Custom Pages which is a big leap forward in the convergence of model-driven apps and canvas apps into a single Power App.
Announcing command designer with Power Fx (preview)
For the first time ever you can use command designer and Power Fx to customize model-driven app command bars! We’re excited to introduce many new low-code capabilities that also work with custom pages in converged apps.
Try out the Power Apps October 2021 Release Wave 2 updates today!
The Power Apps October release wave 2 makes discovering data much easier and comes with enhanced UI experiences that are modern; take advantage of these now for your Model-driven apps.
Enabling efficiency: How a disciplined Operation Lead became a Power Apps champion
A successful career in manufacturing hasn’t offered Loretta a lot of experience with technology. It has, however, given her a unique perspective on how to maximize efficiency. She knew, for example, that if her co-workers at the paper mill had easy access to important information, they could solve many issues on their own and get back up and running more quickly. And an efficient way to provide that information would be through an app. Despite her lack of tech expertise, Loretta figured that, with Power Apps, she could just jump in and figure it out. And she was right.
Data conversion in Power Apps - Table to string - About365
In this new blog series, I will show you how to do data conversions from one data type to another. This blog will show you how to convert a table to a string and vice versa. Table First of all, let’s quickly jump into the definition of a table. According to Wikipedia: In Power Apps, […]
Azure Synapse Series: What is Workload Management (part2) | Purple Frog Systems
So in part 1 we found out what Workload Management was and why we wanted to use it. (If you haven’t read that part, please click here and read that post before you carry on, as we’re jumping in at the deep end!) In this part we’ll be learning how to configure it. Continuing from […]