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In a previous blog, I showed how to load a raster tiles into PowerBI data model, in theory that should solved all my issues with doing a detailed maps in PowerBI. unfortunately, no, even if R and P…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Along with the updated Power BI Desktop ribbon, several additional report themes are available. The Power BI docs provide a great reference to the new options, except they do not include the specific color values for anyone who wants that level of detail. Last year, I compiled a hex color reference for the (then eight)…

Reading Time: 3 minutes With the December Power BI Desktop update, users are introduced to a new color picker when customizing theme colors. The new color picker is much more versatile than the original when selecting colors. Power BI’s new custom color picker (seen in theme customization preview): Power BI’s original custom color picker (currently seen everywhere else): …

This is a mock-up in response to this question on the Power BI Community Boards and provides a concept for expansion rather than telling a particular story. This is an example building on Parker Stevens' excellent Dynamic Reference Line on X-Axis walkthrough, with a twist. Rather than having a singl...

Power BI custom visuals may make your report slow to load

I have written previously a blog article that I explained in detail how I fetch the image URL from a website using Power Query. That method, however, is what I call a bit of a techie way of doing it because you have to look at the HTML code of the page. There is an…

In December of 2019 Power BI team updated the KPI visual with a ton more features and options. This tutorial walks us through all the new hot features.

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I have written a dozen of blogs and a book about Power BI row-level security and the security on the dataset. However, I always get this question that: "What if I want some people to see only a few pages of my report, and some others to see other pages?" or "How can I put…

Build out powerful Power BI custom themes

This webinar walks through how to make Custom Visuals with no Code. Learn how to use Charts.PowerBI.Tips to enhance your reports. Click here...

We look at how you can sign up for Power BI without a work email. If all you have is a personal email, this video is for you!

Do you need a custom legend for your Power BI visual and not sure how to put one together? Have a look at how you can build a legend for your conditional formatting. Download sample

Quick one today. This question came up recently: “I only want to show values in a chart when someone selected a slicer”. Now this is actually not that hard, so...

Learn about using Power BI Layouts from PowerBI.Tips. This webinar from the Microsoft YouTube channel says it all. Click here to Learn more.

In this post we share our favourite tools to find and host images, and show how we incorporate these into Power BI reports!

Sometimes we have data for many years in our dataset, but we want to restrict how many data points we want to show in #powerbi visuals at any given point. In this blog post, I talk about how you ca…

A few months ago, a very interesting question was posted on the Power BI community forum and I had the opportunity to work on it. Finally, I have the time to write a blog post about this so that we…

More than a year ago, a question was asked on the Power BI community in regards to showing a heat map in Power BI. Not just a simple heat map in the matrix visual, but a heat map based on data smoo…

In this post we share DiscoverEI's top 5 Power BI dashboard design tips to help you create engaging and intuitive reports in no time!

In this post we share our top 5 Power BI design tips to help you create engaging and intuitive reports in no time!

Get accurate color palettes for any word, idea or theme.

Adding instructions to your report enables end users to engage wth your report. This tutorial walks through various options to add end user help tips.

Make sure you’re making intentional visual choices

Reading Time: 4 minutes Power BI buttons provide more interactivity in reports, and different states allow unique formatting when users interact with a button. What are the visual icons available when using buttons in Power BI, and is it possible to extend them? Button Icons Power BI has a handful of button icons that provide cues for user interactions.…