Power BI Smart Narratives represent a new feature that allows you to add automatically generated description, derived from one or more visuals, in which are shown business trends emerging from the report. Smart Narratives are automatically generated in English, but the text can be manually edited (translated) and formatted in the desired way. It is also possible to add new values to narratives based on a given formula.
Pivot tables often store data in the cache, and some of that data is also that about slicer elements. Slicers take values from the source table. If we add some of them and then delete them, it may happen that the slicers show phantom values. They are shown in pale color, as if there is no data. And indeed, if we pick such a value, we will get an empty pivot table report. How can slicer elements always be up to date?
Azure Maps is a new Power BI visual that enables the display of data on geospatial maps with greater accuracy of display, and as such are suitable for the development of Internet and mobile applications, as well as specific reports in which the exact location of the object is important. These maps are a much better choice when you have the exact location of the object you want to show on the map (latitude, longitude) …
Every manager’s dream is to have a big screen in front of him with a dashboard that provides information about (almost) everything that happens in his company. And can this work in real time? Yes, and this feature has been around since October 2019 for all Power BI Professional and Premium users who use DirectQuery to load the Data Model. Recently, some novelties are available that make this process even more efficient …
Power BI comes in several “flavors” and one of them is Power BI Mobile. It is a mobile app which can be downloaded both for Android and iOS devices, and is used to display reports that are optimized for the mobile phone screen. The CEO’s dreams became reality! The technology exists, and in the text that follows you will learn how to use it, with the help of the Power BI Desktop development platform, and create reports for “small screens”.