Asking questions

Power BI users have long been able to, by entering a question in a specially specified field, create a report that, by combining the reporting dimensions and measures, answers the question asked. Recently this option has been enabled in the Power BI Desktop application. Home ribbon now, besides the usual „New Visual“ option, also contains „Ask a question“. Let’s see how it’s used!

After clicking the Ask a question button a “blank” visual and an input field will appear on a report page. The question we bring is a combination of English and names of reporting dimensions and measures. If we enter in this field, for example, expression:

Show KOL by NAZIV PARTNERA

It will automaticaly generate a chart visual that shows quantities sold by partners. The application automatically selects the type of chart, and after we have created the visual we can subsequently modify it by adding new dimensions or changing the layout. Experienced users will not consider this option too much, but it will definitely be useful to beginners when creating their first PowerBI Desktop reports.