Power BI Update - August 2024

Welcome to the August Power BI update! We have great features for you this month, we heard your feedback and included more demos! Be sure to check out our Monthly Update blog for a deep dive into everything new and all the updates for the month of August

Sections
Copilot and AI – 00:54
Reporting – 1:22
Modeling – 16:04
Embedded Analytics - 19:21
Visualizations – 21:21

Demos
Reporting – 4:28, 10:19, 13:16, 15:19
Modeling – 16:25
Embedded Analytics – 19:46

Meet our Community Member of the month - @jennratten

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[lazydeveloper]

When PDF export for table or matrix visuals will come ??? I am waiting for more than 2 years every company need this

[LucasAugustoMilanes]

+1 month with "big" updates! Let's wait one more month to check again what we will have

[dc-sgot]

Visual format is nice! When will we see stage 2 of the slicer visual enhancements?

[sergiizelenko]

Great to see more demo in monthly updates! Thank you :)

[JonathanCHANAL]

When you add a new button in the format pane, it should be great to add the fx button. We need more fx buttons! I don't really like the ability to change measures in the Power BI service because you then have 2 different versions of the same pbix Anyway, this is a great update as always!

[diegoalejandropenalozamayo]

When did they release PowerBi's native boxplot visualization?

[D_Hoffmann_greenique]

I have questions regarding the dynamic per recipient subscription.
1. Is this a feature that a tenent admin needs to activate to try it out? I tried it and I don't get the option to create a dynamic subscription.

2. By "Generally Available" I was under the impression, that this would work under a pro licence without premium capacity.
The documentation states the following prerequisite:
- Paginated Report: "A paginated report with parameters to share that is saved in a workspace backed by a capacity (Power BI Premium capacity, Microsoft Fabric trial, or Microsoft Fabric capacity)."
- Report: "A report to share that is saved in a workspace backed by a capacity (Power BI Premium capacity, Microsoft Fabric trial, or Microsoft Fabric capacity)."

If this is the current state I would favor to have a indication in the future about the required licence of a feature.

All in all great updates. Cheers

[xanthopsized]

Long awaited for visual level formatting ❤ Does it work with SSAS tabular models?

[ArtfulData]

Amazing! These updates are definitely helping us take our data analysis to the next level. I especially love the DAX queries for web applications—so practical!

[melodym]

Great video, thank you!
Question: can we prevent users from editing our dax in the workspace? This can be dangerous if they don't understand the relationships between the tables, or how the data from the model works in conjunction with the paginated reports or downstream flows.

[dexterx]

In the visual formatting, can you use a measure in the Data format section to define the format string?

[ChrisStewart-mnwm]

Tron says: and/or logic in filters pane please. And option to paste in lists of filter values.

[yyymmmddd]

Beware, few months (tested on March, 2024 reports) old reports do not open in this new version.

[cooldeepak]

Hi Team, thanks for the update.. do you have any plan to make the message section dynamic where we can pass values from variables under dynamic email subscription feature.

[EverythingPants]

Please, Please, Please change the selection principle to be "every object your selection box touches" (as per PowerPoint) and not the current "Everything that's fully inside your selection box"! If you have objects that touch each other, or touch the side of the screen it's very hard to select those objects along with others.

Also, the CTRL key in Windows applications is used to manually select multiple objects, but you've used that for navigation in the designer. So I can't manually select two objects using CTRL if one is a button or link, as it takes me there instead!

[johnskilly]

When they celebrate the roll out of things that should have been done years ago. What about useful roll outs like being able to click on a measure and see where it´s being used? Or the ability to lock a query when sharing the semantic model with others? Such a frustrating tool.

[Aussified]

Great update and thanks for making it more digestible.

[NukeIncharge]

Thank you for regular updates but visual level formatting is unnecessary since dynamic formatting exists, visual level formatting becomes irrelevant when we need to show multiple units of measurement.

Kindly pay visit to your visuals gallery as well and improve the existing Microsoft charts.

[hagbjork]

Great video and update this month!
I like you emphasis first thing that you listen to the community and make adjustment to the format and content of videos.
Nice to see more demos 👍

[learntech]

DAX queries on web is awesome...no need of ALM toolkit now, right...