In case you're working in an international company, you might have to deal with multiple languages and cultures at the same time. As not in all countries and businesses, it is common that everyone speaks and communicates in English all day, it can be relevant to support other languages for your Power BI solution. But …
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Recently, I've published a new version of the Model Documenter. With that, version 2.1.0 went live. I always try to keep the FAQ up to date and add sections describing typical questions and use cases. However, sometimes it is just easier to write a blog about it to reach a bigger audience, or even record …
It is long overdue, but time for a new updated version for the Power BI Model Documenter external tool! The latest release lasts from the first week of 2022 and since then close to 6000 people have downloaded the Model Documenter installer directly from the website, excluding the downloads and clones from the GitHub repository. …
Over the past few days, I attended the Power BI Next Step conference in Lego land - Denmark. During the keynote, Will Thompson - PM on the Power BI team, showed a new DAX function that is available to all of us already, but was very well hidden in the latest builds of Power BI …
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If you are a Power BI report developer, you might have experienced the case I'm describing in this post. You did your utmost best to setup a decent DT(A)P process, where you clearly separate development, test, acceptance and production stages from each other. But as you don't want to be the only one that has …
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Recently, I have had a challenge at a customer, where a central teams maintains many dataflows in Power BI, to store their only and single version of the truth. However, this central team maintained many different dataflows in a single workspace, but did not want to share the entire workspace with others. What now? How …
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Back in 2020, I released the first version of the Power BI external tool to document your Power BI data model. Since then, I wrote a lot about this topic, such as why adding descriptions to everything is important and various releases of the model documenter. Users encountered various challenges with the initial release of …
It is very common to have multiple reports for different audiences, while there is also one (group of) user(s) that requires to have an overview over all these different insights. The main challenge you will face, is having cross-report interactivity and find related insights. Let's take an example of three different roles, where we have …
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A decent data model is the key to success in Power BI. As this an underexposed topic in the end-to-end story of Power BI, Jeroen ter Heerdt (Program Manager on the Power BI team) and I believed it is time to change this! Wednesday, 17th of March, the first episode in a series of webinars …
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I strongly believe that it is key to describe everything that you have built as part of your Power BI model. As we all have a hate-love relationship with documenting our work, the external tool that I build to document your Power BI solutions could come in useful. In particular everything you add and only …
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