This post is also available in: Deutsch Recently, I had received several questions about whether you can view a website directly in Power BI. This can be implemented quite easily and is a good way to add more information to a report. However, one restriction must be mentioned in advance. Unfortunately, Power BI Desktop does not load web pages, so we will focus on the Power BI Service here. But as a final result, here’s what we can look forward to: Loading via iFrame with HTML5 Visual In order to be able to load a website into our report, we must first ask ourselves which visual this can be done with. Here the HTML5 Viewer visual is very useful, with which we can display HTML code in a visual. In HTML itself there is then the iFrame tag, which allows to embed another website into your own website – or in our case into our Power BI Visual. This combination allows us to embed a website directly into a Power BI report.But the website author can prevent the website from being included via iFrame. For example, YouTube and Google prevent embedding via iFrame. In this case, simply no content […]
This post is also available in: Deutsch Quick update on the Power BI August 2021 release and this more, in case you encounter this new spelling and wonder what it is.As the title suggests, there is a new way to create a Date or DateTime value. If we consider the CALENDAR function as an example, then two values in the format Date must be specified as parameters. Up to now this was possible with the DATE function. For example, a calendar for the year 2021 would be created in DAX like this: If you want to have a calculation with date and time, then you have to add the TIME function: And here the notation with DATE and TIME actually becomes a bit tiresome. Notation as text A new option is to write a date or date and time as a simple string in the following format: Or time included: Thus, it is possible to describe the above two examples in the following way: Or time included: From my point of view a very useful feature, because it saves a little bit of typing. However, I would be even happier to have an improved handling of the time calculations. […]
This post is also available in: Deutsch In September last year I had already written an article on how to dynamically adjust the values of a measure, for example in millions, thousands or without scaling: Dynamic scaling of a measure in Power BI with DAX The approach at that time with the FORMAT function had a big disadvantage, the value is always converted to a text with FORMAT. This means that the measure can only be used in tables, because bar and line graphics cannot display texts. With old approach representation only possible in tables In the meantime, however, there is a much better way to display a measure with dynamic formatting using Calculation Groups. With Calculation Groups I can also create the formatting dynamically via DAX and this is – like every DAX function – calculated individually for each row. I use the same scenario as in the original article. If I have not selected any customers, I get high numbers and therefore I want to get scaling: However, if I filter on a specific customer, then the values should be displayed without scaling, because the scaling is too high in the normal case: Implement formatting via Calculation […]
This post is also available in: Deutsch Pretty much since I started the blog, I’ve been gradually sharing my code snippets for DAX and M here on the website. As the list got longer and longer and more and more confusing with all the examples, I decided to maintain and publish the code snippets on GitHub from now on. There I can provide and maintain them much more organized. As usual, I’ll add new examples to the list as I come across something that might be useful for you. The snippets are available on:: https://github.com/selimovd/PowerBISnippets/ […]
This post is also available in: Deutsch Last week I had investigated why a what-if parameter sometimes skips values and how to bypass this. In a discussion with my valued friend Bernat Agulló, we came across the topic of single values in slicers and he directed me to a tweet on how to do this with Tabular Editor. Single values as slicer with tabular editor In order to do this, the experimental features must first be activated in Tabular Editor. This can be done under File > Preferences: After that, the desired column must be selected. In the Metadata settings under “Extended Properties” a new “JsonExtendedProperty” has to be created: We specify ParameterMetadata as the name of the property and {“version”:0} as the value: Afterwards, the data model needs to be saved in the Tabular Editor and once we return to Power BI and drag the modified column into a slicer, we have the additional option to make it a “Singel Value” slicer: This is how the new slicer option can then be used: Conclusion I personally find the option to use a column as a single value slicer really amazing. However, one must be aware that there are […]
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