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You’ll notice one of our exciting updates right away when creating new reports with the September update of Power BI Desktop, a new, modern default theme! Not only do we have a new default theme, but we’ve more than doubled the number of built-in theme options for your report. If you’re a theme author, potentially more exciting are the updates to our theme JSON format which make it much quicker and easier for you to create your own custom themes that significantly change the look and feel of your report. Thanks to an intern project, we’re also releasing a frequently requested modeling feature…

Our August release has another hotly anticipated feature from the Microsoft Business Application Summit, grouping. Amanda Cofsky Program Manager Grouping in reports, similar to PowerPoint’s grouping, lets you easily organize groups of visuals to move and resize them as a set. This month’s release also has some updates to our newest features, such as an icon set picker for our newly added icons conditional formatting and measure support for key influencers. As a reminder, you’re now downloading a single .exe file that has all the languages wrapped into it. The old .msi installation…

Today we’re excited to announce  a public preview of the ‘new look’ for Power BI service.  We’re refreshing the user interface to provide a modern experience that’s simpler and builds on customers’ familiarity with Microsoft products. This initial release has updates to the report viewing experience, with more updates planned over the next few months. Here’s a peek into a sample report with the new look  – Sample report with the new look Note:  We will start rolling out the new look this week. It will be enabled for all users by  July 31, 2019 . More details in the  Opt in, phased roll out…

The wait is over! This month we are incredibly excited to announce that the new filter experience is now generally available! We have updated the look and feel and added a ton of new functionality. Let’s walk through what’s included in the new filter experience! Pop-up Filter List With the new filter experience, report consumers can hover over the filter icon in the visual header to see a read-only list of all the filters or slicers affecting that visual. This makes it super easy for end users to understand what filters are applied to a visual. Here are the types of filters this…

A question I got recently was, how can I visualize or create a dataset that can show/fetch information on a timeline? For example, I have a time-sheet and want to visualize the hours employees worked at certain projects, per day, week, month, year, and so on. In this example I will create an order intake report. For the simple reason that for this report you can use the standard demo data in Business Central, and for time-sheets you first need to go threw a setup and then create the demo data. The order intake can be defined in different ways, the definition that I will use is: the amount…

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…