Power BI
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Introduction Three years ago, write-back to Power BI was my gateway into the Power BI community. Power Apps embedded into Power BI, enabling write-back to Sharepoint, Azure SQL and Fabric, and sharing those solutions with the community, have always been some of the most fun I’ve had with “work”. However. While Power Apps are relatively…
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Introduction So your old Power BI Premium Capacity has run/is running out, and your organization is acquiring a new Fabric Capacity to replace it. Perhaps the organization even decided to take the chance to move the capacity region to something a little closer to home? If you find yourself in this situation, how do you…
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The Scenario Consider the following scenario: Where should you grant users permissions and access in Fabric? Do you give them Workspace Access? Item Access? Something third entirely? The following are questions I hear people ask from time to time, which relate to one or more of the above bullets: I hear many people confused about…
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This week, to round off the year, we try something different. I wanted to throw a shout out to all the community heroes out there, who also help make the most of Microsoft Fabric, through the use of Microsoft Power Platform (and vice versa). Also, I wanted to highlight some of their contributions, and hopefully…
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Introduction I have written at length about how to create Power Apps embedded in Power BI / Fabric, applying write-back capabilities, and making the most of the integration: However, recently I was faced with a challenge I had not seen before: A simple comment App embedded in Power BI was supposed to show all the…
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Introduction In Microsoft Fabric, whenever we create a new Lakehouse or Warehouse, a Default Semantic Model is created. However, we can also choose to create a Custom Semantic Model on top of our Lakehouses and Warehouses. A dual-concept which is confusing to many. This blog will try to explain: The TL;DR of this blog: It’s…
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Do you want to share Power BI Reports with End Users through an app, but hide the Page Navigation of the report? This is especially useful if you have built-in navigation using Buttons, Sidebars or other menus in your report. Luckily, there is a quick solution. Well, two solutions actually, depending on whether you are…
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Introduction The new SQL Database item in Microsoft Fabric, just announced at Ignite last week, puts a new spin on my long journey of enabling write-back for Power BI reports powered by a Microsoft Fabric backend. Until the ‘Translytical Apps’ which were also teased at Ignite becomes a public thing (Video of sneak peek), using…
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The simplest Version Control setup possible for Power BI: Sharepoint/OneDrive + automatic publishing
Introduction This blog has previously covered the great GIT Integration that has been made available for Fabric Workspaces, and its power in combination with Deployment Pipelines for proper Content Lifecycle Management: Simple Version Control in Fabric / Power BI with GIT Integration – a beginner’s guide – Downhill Data (downhill-data.com) Suggested architecture for collaborative Power…
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Introduction Half a year ago, I wrote a blog post on creating Measure Tables in Fabric Data Lakehouses directly in the browser: How to create Measure Tables in Microsoft Fabric – Downhill Data (downhill-data.com). Back then, Data Warehouses were less relevant for the story, as they could not be used for Direct Lake models, and…
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