Display websites within Power BI dynamically

August 29, 2021
Denis Selimovic
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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…

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New notation for Date or DateTime format in Power BI

August 14, 2021
Denis Selimovic
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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…

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Change formatting of each individual value dynamically with Calculation Groups

July 27, 2021
Denis Selimovic
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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…

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My Power BI and Power Query code snippets are moving to GitHub

July 15, 2021
Denis Selimovic
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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…

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Add a single value parameter for any column

July 4, 2021
Denis Selimovic
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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…

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