Power BI Reporting Updates - Aug, 2018

Power BI Report Server August updates just got released by Microsoft. Several new features took place now. I try to highlight couple of awesome feature below.

Reporting Areas
  • Reporting Theme
  • Buttons to trigger actions
  • Donut radius control
  • Data label options for funnel chart
  • Numeric slicer
  • Sorting experience improvement
  • Print reports through Export to PDF (in Power BI Desktop)
  • Log axis improvements
  • Wallpaper formatting
  • High contrast support for reports
  • Articulating vision
  • Decision making
  • Strategy development
  • Change management
  • Pie and donut detail labels position control
  • Format data labels separately for each measure in a combo chart
  • New visual header with more flexibility and formatting

Modelling Areas

  • Filtering and sorting in data view
  • Improved locale formatting
  • Data categories for measures
  • Statistical DAX functions

Reporting theme, nothing but a JSON file, so easily you can customize and plug and play with your desired organization CSS/logo and etc. You need to choose import theme option.


Button triggered options - long waiting one, finally came. Now, you will have a button where you can click and let the action triggered to do what you want to retrieve to display.

Combo chart line can be display now in different style. Numeric slicer came into place which is superb. The Advanced section of Slicer syncing pane allows you now to create custom groups of slicers to sync. 

There is so many updates for August came into picture and here the MS link on all those. Enjoy reading, enjoy Power BI!



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