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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…

Back in September of last year, Microsoft announced dashboard commenting  in Power BI. Since then, we’ve seen thousands of you leverage this feature to collaborate with colleagues and start discussions within your organization. Nikhil Gaekwad Product Manager, Power BI Today, I’m excited to announce that we are bringing the same commenting capability to Power BI reports! With  report commenting , you can directly add comments to report pages or specific visuals to discuss your data. The best part is that when you start a new conversation, Power BI will do all the hard work to  automatically…

As explained here on docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/tenant-admin-center#notification-recipients  The Business Central administration center provides a portal for administrators to perform administrative tasks for a Business Central tenant. And as a partner, you can access the center from the Partner Dashboard in the Microsoft Partner Center. Now, I have a Business Central tenant here: https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/e57bff73-f9b4-49b5-aea5-xxx, which I created as a trial, here: https://trials.dynamics.com/Dynamics365/Signup…

April is an exciting month for Power BI Desktop! Our April update has major updates across the entire product. Amanda Cofsky,  Program Manager This release adds the ability to define the titles of your visuals and the URLs of your buttons based on DAX expressions, which is only our first step towards making every property of a visual expression-based. You can also now easily link reports within a workspace together with across-report drillthrough support. We have a lot of new connectors this month and several  of our preview connectors are now generally available, including the Power BI dataflows…

You want to validate an intuition in Power BI but you are not a data scientist? Then don’t worry as we have now AutoML. Santosh Chandwani,  Principal PM is excited to announce the preview of Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) for Dataflows in Power BI.AutoML enables business analysts to build machine learning models with clicks, not code, using just their Power BI skills. Power BI Dataflows offer a simple and powerful ETL tool that enables analysts to prepare data for further analytics. You invest significant effort in data cleansing and preparation, creating datasets that can be used across…

The current spring release of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a new milestone in the transformation and historical journey from NAV to BC. Microsoft formally communicated at Directions Asia that this release will be the last release with a Windows Client, C/Side and C/AL. In October 2019 Microsoft ships her application in AL with VS Code only.  It was also communicated that in future Business Central on-prem will follow cloud rules. This means that clock is ticking to refactor and shift your IP to extensions. To do so, your workforce need to move their skills from C/AL and C/Side…

Recently someone asked me if it is possible to programmatically access information from notes and add them on a page or report, so I thought, why not blog about it? The first thing you should know is that notes are saved in the table: “ Record Link “: And you should also know that there’s a codeunit “ Type Helper ” that can help you: This codeunit contains a lot of very useful functions such as: And that’s exactly what you need. So let’s put this in an example. Let’s create a codeunit, with a function: GetNotesForRecordRef : Now you can use this procedure, for example in a…

This month we have a lot of exciting announcements. Two of our most requested features on UserVoice are releasing this month, heat maps and single select slicers. Additionally, we are making our complete facelift of the modeling view generally available. New DAX functions and improvements to existing features, such as buttons and the selection pane, round out this update. Here’s the complete list of March updates: Reporting Single select slicer Heat map support for Bing maps Cross-highlight by axis labels Default tooltip formatting Static web URL support for buttons, shapes &…

Frequently I get questions, remarks, observations from customers, partners, workshop participants, prospects,… about Business Central regarding what’s possible and what not. Question I’m asked frequently are: What are the current limitations when you develop with extensions? What are the current limitations when you compare Business Central Saas (Cloud) with On Prem? Can we still do ‘this’ or ‘that’ in Business Central Saas version? How do we upgrade from the On Prem to the Cloud product? Well, did you know that there’s a ton of information out there? https://docs.microsoft…