Companies often have the need to restrict certain employees or groups from seeing part of their business data. Power BI solves this by using Roles and defining the rights at the leven of Workspace in which they work. In practice, this means that everyone sees exactly what they are allowed to see. Nothing more, nothing less! In the following text you will see how Power BI row-level security is being implemented …
In an old cartoon was promoted a saying: “Cats and mice can be friends”. Consequently, Excel and Power BI can also be friends! Power BI allows you to import Excel reports, whether traditional, Pivot or Power Pivot reports. This is not a whole new topic, but I think it would be nice to remember it in a new light, with an emphasis on what you can do for free and when you definitely have to buy licenses.
The Game of Life is an old programmer’s puzzle that teaches teenagers to write and analyse their own code. The goal of the game is to simulate the development (life and death) of cells within one organism. An organism is a matrix of arbitrary size, and the rules are as follows: if a cell is alive and surrounded by 2 or 3 living cells, it will survive. If there is an empty position and is surrounded by 3 living cells, a new cell will be born. How to create this simulation in Excel?
By combining INDEX and MATCH, we can easily calculate sales results if the data we analyse is given in a table that is a matrix. By using Data Validation for certain cells you’ll get a very simple sales analysis tool that is easily scalable and can be used in more complex scenarios. Pivot tables are an irreplaceable tool but there are situations where we get similar results by a different procedure, this is one of them!
When defining conditional formatting rules, sometimes there are more than one format, and we want one formatting rule to exclude another. In these situations, Stop If True option may be helpful. It is used in various ways, and one of the simplest is filtering the conditional formatting rules given by icon sets. Let’s see how this works!