Slicers are interactive objects used to filter pages or the entire Power BI report. They haven’t changed much since their inception, and since they represent an essential component of the report, they got a small facelift. Since November, a new Button Slicer visualization has appeared, which has the properties of traditional slicers, as well as some additional formatting options that make it much more beautiful. Let’s see what it has to offer!
Ribbon is a new visualization that has recently become part of the Power BI reporting platform. When is it used? If you want to show some indicators, for example sales revenue or total costs in relation to time, you will use either a Line or Column chart. If you hesitate between these two visualizations, you can use Ribbon, which represents the best of both!
Calculation groups is a new option within the Power BI Desktop application that allows us to implement DAX calculation groups within the data model. They serve to simplify calculations when we use similar DAX expressions, where only the variable (expression) that appears in them varies. By adding them, the model is automatically optimized by removing implicit measures.
When making reports, users often create measures using complex DAX expressions. Because of this, they often use some external tools to prepare and analyze the created measures. For this reason, the Power BI development team added, in addition to the three existing ones, one more view within the Power BI Desktop application. It enables the creation and analysis of complex DAX measures.
You have probably noticed that in Power BI service Datasets have recently been replaced by Semantic Models. Model Explorer is a new feature of Power BI Desktop. It is located in the Model view, and enables views and work with complex semantic models that contain tables, relations, measures, roles, calculation groups, cultures, perspectives…