As I’m sure you’ve guessed by now I’m a big fan of dynamic M parameters in Power BI. They’re easy to use in Power BI Desktop but what if you want to use them in your own DAX queries? Documentation for this is coming soon, but in the meantime I thought it would be useful to show the additions to DAX query syntax to support them – something you can see for yourself if you take a look at the DAX queries generated by Power BI Desktop using Performance Analyzer.
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Delaying Power BI Dataset Refresh Until The Source Data Is Ready
This week a customer came to me with the following problem: they had scheduled the refresh of their dataset but their source data wasn’t always ready in time, so the old data was being loaded by mistake. The best solution here is to use some kind of external service (for example Power Automate) to poll the data source regularly to see if it’s ready, and then to refresh the dataset via the Power BI REST API when it is.
Handling Multi-select In Power BI Dynamic M Parameters
Even though the documentation for dynamic M parameters does mention how to handle multi-select in the M code for your Power Query queries, I thought it would be useful to provide a detailed example of how to do this and explain what happens behind the scenes when you use multi-select.
View Native Query Now Works For Analysis Services Data Sources
If you’re familiar with the topic of query folding in Power Query, you’ll know that the View Native Query right-click option in the Applied Steps pane of the Power Query Editor can be used to show the native query that is run against the data source. You may also know that there are some data sources where query folding does take place but where View Native Query remains greyed out.
Exporting Data From Websites For Use In Power BI Using Power Automate UI Flows
As a Power BI developer I know how Power Query makes it easy to get data from web sources, but I also know there are limits to what it can do. I can get data from tables on web pages, I can get data from web services, but when confronted with a website where you have to click a button to download a file there’s a problem.
Power BI Report Performance And The Number Of Visuals On A Page
When you’re faced with a slow Power BI report it’s very easy to assume that the problem is something to do with the dataset, how it’s modelled and how the DAX has been written, and then disappear down a rabbit hole of Marco-and-Alberto videos trying to shave milliseconds of the time taken by each DAX query the report runs.
Adding Power BI Reports To Lists In Microsoft Dynamics Business Central
Anyone would appreciate having important, much-used reports easily accessible from the appropriate places. A very helpful feature of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the ability to add Power BI reports directly to your list views of customers, vendors, items, and more. However, there is a trick to making this work. Watch this brief video to learn how.