Power BI Monthly Update - February 2024

For February 2024, here are a few, select highlights of the many updates we have for Power BI. Visual calculations make it easier than ever to do calculations that were very hard or even impossible. The Power BI home provide a centralized location for all your power BI desktop activities.
Fabric Copilot for power BI can now add measure descriptions to your semantic model measures. The Power BI add in now supports shareable links to make it easier for people to consume reports, and the new Explore feature gives you a better understanding of what's in the data you're exploring.
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Blog: powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/b...
Sections:
Reporting: 1:55
Modeling: 11:25
Service: 15:08
Mobile: 16:09
Developers: 16:24
Visualizations: 20:37
Other: (Purview) 20:49
Demos:
Reporting: 3:07, 5:33, 10:00
Modeling: 11:41
Developers: 17:28
Other: (Purview) 21:08
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[@th3n0rthsid3]

Showing examples of how to use the latest updates was super helpful, thank you! Great update this month!

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

We're happy to hear it 💛

[@erik8362]

Great video! I think the general quality of the presentations is very good and some great updates to the software also. Just a small request for improvement: The sound is very different between the presenters (and has been for a while). I think this would be easy to fix with a standard microphone setup + some guidelines (and perhaps someone to do some basic sound mixing).

[@agataj900]

Love that the updates were shown with the real examples! And I like the new visual calculations. 👊🤛

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

🤩 🙌

[@user-gh8xp1pq1c]

Having Time Code Chapters would be awesome.

[@dutchdatadude]

its in the description.

[@stevenmoore836]

The dynamic subscriptions is very useful.

[@elrevesyelderecho]

Thanks. Can be added into the video description the link to the PBI blog were all is detailed?

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

Hi there, here's the link to the blog msft.it/6051cz5nv

[@ArtfulData]

Thanks, I like Visulal calculation, it is much user friendly!

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

💛 💛

[@Snehapjr]

It's a great update. Thank you. However, it would be even better if Power BI included a Tooltip enhancement in the next update, as there is currently no functionality for showing multiple tooltips in a single visual.

[@juanm555]

or the ability to show tooltip only in one column of a table

[@workstuff5253]

The visual calcs could be a great learning tool for DAX newbies if we could see what is actually running under the hood (assuming this is some form of syntax sugar).

[@jaapolsthoorn796]

Great video, love that most features are demoed, it really makes a difference!

[@bladerunnerisback]

Is measure description Copilot available worldwide? Thanks.

[@Doudou8321]

How much discount can we get？ without submiting the order, i cannot see the order total

[@melodym5993]

Excellent video!! Thabk you very much!!

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

We appreciate the love! 🙌

[@guillermodebiase5803]

The Fabric trial countdown was reset to 59 ?

[@MT-ym2vj]

Folders in workspace when?

[@wiiori4618]

lol!!! Don’t think it will ever happen. Better enjoy audiences. 😛

[@LIZSORIA]

Great updates and thanks.

[@lukeminikoski]

Finally some valuable and important updates!

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

👏

[@nirsusan8403]

Great updates, thank you!

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

🤩🙌

[@ezpowerbi5268]

Amazing updates!

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

👏

[@im1rkm]

Hiding measures is a great + finally it's flexible possibilities are endless

[@dutchdatadude]

thank you :)

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

🙌

[@MapBot11]

What about the bug where I can no longer view the DAX function behind my measures?

[@zpakk4499]

ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS UPDATE!!!!! GAME CHANGING!

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

We're glad you love the update!

[@beingrishi6450]

13:26 how to enable this co-pilot

[@adauto_bezerra]

Nice Job.

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

💛

[@marcelomaitelo]

Why doesn't it work with a field parameter? (year, month, week, etc.)

[@user-ky1tm4jk2l]

Hi, pls dynamic subscriptions can be triggered also for those without an active PBI access? When I saw the PDF attached, it made me think that I can spread filtered report also to non PBI users. Currently I am using a power automate flow for sending html table over to each and every user without pbi access. But it is only a table. And as I already have the report prepared in PBI it would be great to show them all visualizations as well filtered with their data.

[@rosaisela06]

Hi, I'm getting error "Cube Table must have exactly one island" (no changes made), Does anyone know if it has to do with this update?

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

Hi there, we're sorry you're experiencing this. Please try restarting and seeing if that solves the issue.

[@MattiasGregersen]

I have started having the exact same issue, seems random and sometimes even after the error message query-changes still goes through...Sorry, but "try restarting" is not really that impressive

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

Thank you for the additional information. For further assistance, we recommend posting your issue to our Tech Community where other community members and experts can take a look and provide suggestions. You can post it here: msft.it/6058c3nT6

[@Mucahtkutlu]

I am planing to replace my calculation groups with visual calculations. Let's see if it works :D

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

🤞 We hope it does!

[@zhelinwang1716]

so great!

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

🙌

[@beingrishi6450]

Please tell how to include dax query editor below data modelling view

[@agataj900]

You need to tick this option in Desktop : Options - Preview Features - DAX Query view

[@beingrishi6450]

@@agataj900 thanks

[@frankgovers8420]

Link blog?

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

Hi there, here's the blog link msft.it/6052cz5Dw

[@smitpanchal4548]

Sir can you please add Dark mode in Power Bi Desktop. It is most awaited update which is need to done. Rest the latest was great and the feature which you guys added the drill through in donut chart was awesome.

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

Hey there, thanks for reaching out. Can you uninstall and reinstall the latest version power bi desktop and see if that helps?

[@robertdseals1]

Can't connect to sql source with the new Feb. update. augh.

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

Hi there, we suggest posting your issue to our Tech Community where other community members and experts can take a look and provide suggestions. You can do so here: msft.it/6059cwOPf

[@LakshmanTiwari-sd7nk]

I love Power Bi and Using Embedded Power Bi a lot, But Day after day power Bi Desktop is getting slow and slow.

[@Mohisham1]

I'm encountering an issue and need your support. Whenever I utilize new visual calculations and publish my dashboard to the web, any tables or charts containing these new calculations fail to work properly and give me this error "Couldn't load the data for this visual". Can you assist me with this?

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

Hey there, we are sorry to hear you are running into issues. Can you please send us a screenshot of the message you are seeing from your end?

[@Mohisham1]

Can you send me email ? Because i can’t reply with screenshots.

[@Mohisham1]

Couldn't retrieve the data for this visual. Please try again later. Please try again later or contact support. If you contact support, please provide these details.

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

Thank you for letting us know. We recommend posting your issue to our Tech Community where other community members and experts can take a look and provide suggestions. You can post your question here: msft.it/6056cVD0i

[@taalbiahmed]

i like

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

💛

[@jakob2746]

who decides what features you develop? yet another boring update. Where is the built-in write back functionality? or the ability to copy/paste cells from a table (not rows or column selection)? where is the ability to quickly simulate scenarios? where is the built-in P&L matrix that every organization on earth needs? Why copilot can only be used to create basic and dumb measures? where is the ability to get an accurate response on measure for lost customers from copilot or similar? where are the diagnostic or predictive analytic capabilities?

[@daddyflacko8891]

PLEASE BRING POWER BI TO IOS

[@hamedazhang1985]

I'm really sorry for the Power BI development team. Even though we went from 2023 to 2024, but Power Bi has been declining and going back for several years Specially Since the time when it changed its theme color from bee yellow to green, which wants to be like Excel I understand that you want to make yourself like Excel, unlike Tableau, which is much more advanced and better in terms of BI, but unfortunately, Power BI has declined a lot in the last two years.

[@MicrosoftPowerBI]

Hi, thanks for reaching out. We encourage you to submit your feedback directly to our developers, you can do that here: msft.it/6052c3OZO

[@hamedazhang1985]

@@MicrosoftPowerBI Thank you for your responding. I Suggest My Opinios In Your Link, So review it Again👇; Hi guys, 1-Please Worked on FORCASTING Features in Power Bi. Just Look at Tableau Programming Team And Compare With Yourselves. 2-Please Please Please Provide "R to L" Languages Feature (Middle Eastern language), Like Time & Date intelligence & "FONTS as URL". Thanks a lot With All Respect; Hamed Azhang