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With this month comes the first feature release from our announcements at Microsoft Business Application Summit, Icon sets, which also addresses our current #1 idea on ideas.powerbi.com. On top of this major update, we have incremental improvements for many of our existing features, such as a counts experience for the Key influencers visual and RLS support for aggregations. To round this out, we are also making several key features, the new filter pane and aggregations, generally available. The observant will notice that, if you’re not using the Microsoft Store version, the link downloads…

Recently someone asked me how to hide the headlines part on a rolecenter page, and what code is required to do that? Personally I would not do that because I find them quite interesting, but if you really want to remove them, here you go. First, open your sandbox environment. If you don’t know how to create a sandbox, then have a look here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-sandbox-overview In your sandbox, open the DESIGN menu: Then click MORE : Then select the REMOVE option, when you hover over the headlines and click the…

Please have a look at this article from Brian Meier : https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/it/2019/07/17/power-bi-apps-for-dynamics-365-business-central-and-dynamics-nav/ Starting September 1, 2019, content packs are no longer supported on Power BI online. Because of that,  updates are no longer supported, and these content packs have been removed from powerbi.com  and replaced with Power BI apps . The Power BI apps are now available in  Microsoft AppSource  and function in the same manner as the content packs. The only difference is that you must have a Power BI Pro license…

What’s new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central? Would you like to know features that are planned to release from October 2019 through March 2020, then have a look here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365-release-plan/2019wave2/dynamics365-business-central/planned-features Here are the  key dates  for the 2019 release wave 2. Application enhancements We will continue to enhance the application through our focus on performance in the most used areas. The Business Central Ideas site continues to be a source for application enhancements. Feature Enabled…

Drum rolls please.. announcing location and date for our first Business Central Hackathon session, bringing professionals together to challenge the Business Central system. We challenge the common way of developing and ultimately we dare you to challenge yourself. And it’s not just a common hackathon. It’s a top-notch event that will take place on different locations in multiple cities. During our hackathon you will be challenged to work agile in small teams to unravel the Business Central system. What does that mean? During the 3-day hackathon you will build a  real working Business Central…

Hopefully, you are either enjoying the start of the Microsoft Business Applications Summit or watching all the exciting news and announcements on social media! To go along with all those other announcements, we, of course, also have a big update for our June update for Power BI Desktop. Amanda Cofsky Program Manager There are a lot of new features and updates to the existing features this month. Some of the highlights include a top UserVoice ask, visual level filters for slicers, and more formatting options that can be changed based on expressions. We also modernized our side…

Imagine that you would like to build a report where you display the inventory by item by company: and you want to do this for Business Central (Saas) using the Power BI connector. Let’s see how that would normally go… Launch Power   BI Desktop and Get Data using the Business Central connector: In the prompt, authenticate with your Office 365 login (email and password). This connector then automatically connects to your Business Central cloud tenant. And this is a great feature, because you don’t need to figure out the ODATA URL, the tenant ID, the user web service access key, and so…

Recently I was ‘playing’ around in my Business Central instance when I noticed the following: At the right bottom of my tenant there’s: Ask us a question So I wondered what would happen when I would ask a question And to my surprise, a couple of minutes later I got these emails: I was amazed, someone answered my question. How cool is that! I should also notice that the Ask us a question feature only appears sometimes, so I have the feeling it’s currently in test. Once rolled-out, I think this might become a very ‘disrupting’, and cool, feature in our world…

We have an exciting release this month.   Amanda Cofsky,  Program Manager On top of incremental improvements for several of our recent released features, such as the key influencers visual and our new filter pane, we also have a new performance analyzer pane. This new pane lets you get a behind the scenes view of what’s happening when your report is loading, which can help you optimize your report and improve your end user’s experience. Here’s the complete list of May updates: Reporting Performance analyzer pane Filter pane improvements (preview) Sorting filter cards …

April was packed full of new capabilities for Power BI. Thank you for the ongoing support and feedback – we couldn’t have done it without you. Nikhil Gaekwad , Product Manager, Power BI Here’s a quick rundown of everything we announced last month: Power BI dataflows GA Q&A update for dashboards New workspaces experience GA Paginated Report Builder New Power BI regions Additional capabilities for paginated reports Support for Azure Analysis Services Publishing within Power BI Apps Email subscriptions Oracle and Teradata support Power BI Premium summary and…