• Total Row Grief – When Your Measures Don’t Sum in the Total Row
    28th October 2022
    On the Microsoft Power BI Ideas Forum ( https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/ ), there is a long-running request (since July 2018) that has amassed a modest 341 votes to date. What is this request you ask? Here it is:- “It would be great if Grand Totals...
  • Making a Slicer Highlight Rather than Filter
    21st October 2022
    So you think a slicer can only filter data in a visual: - Right? Wrong! Just look what I’ve done! If you want a slicer to highlight data in your...
  • When Single Directional Filtering Appears Not to Work
    21st October 2022
    One of the major factors that underpins a good Power BI data model is when filters only propagate from the one side of a relationship to the many...
  • Visualising the Next or Previous N Months from a Selected Month
    11th October 2022
    Ever wanted to do this? S elect a month in a slicer and then visualise in a column chart the next 5 months’ sales from that date. Or show the previous...
  • Using Dynamic Values in the Smart Narrative and Text Box
    3rd October 2022
    When you want to summarise key metrics in your report, the go-to visual you will probably use is the ubiquitous card visual. However, if you knew how...
  • Why Do I Need a Date Table in My Data Model?
    26th September 2022
    The following is an extract from Alison's book 'Up and Running with DAX for Power BI' Have you ever wanted to compare sales for the current month...
  • Power BI user interface experiments
    1st September 2022
    It looks like Microsoft is once again making some changes to Power BI’s user interface . Currently, (September 2022) we are seeing several different...