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slindsay
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Community Admin

The judges have made their decisions after an arduous debate. Read on to learn who will be joining Jerome and Marius on stage in Barcelona!

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uzuntasgokberk
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Super User

Working in a specialized industry like banking or logistics often means using unique terminology that generic analytics tools may not understand. Power BI Copilot allows you to tailor its AI capabilities by adding custom instructions, ensuring your organization's language is recognized and interpreted correctly during analysis.

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slindsay
Community Admin
Community Admin

Join us for the third round of the Power BI dataviz world champs - the final stop on the journey to Barcelona. Read on to learn more! 

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FabricMau
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Administrator

 

🎨 Fabric Community Sticker Challenge Barcelona 2026

Time to stretch your creative muscles and help shape the next Microsoft Fabric community sticker collection.


🚀 The sticker everyone will want on their laptop at FabCon! Whether you're a Fabric fanatic, SQL superhero, AI enthusiast, or community meme master, this is your chance to show up, show off, and leave your mark on the Fabric community.

✦ ✦ ✦

All registered Fabric community members, including Microsoft team members, are invited to submit an original sticker design in one of four challenge categories.

Categories

😂 Joke

Create a joke developers and data professionals will appreciate, including a community inside joke.

🏅 Certified

Celebrate certification success and showcase the achievement.

🤖 AI-Powered

Highlight the power of AI and how it works with SQL in Fabric.

🌍 Community Enthusiasm: Barcelona Edition

Celebrate the energy and spirit of the Barcelona data community.

📅 Important Dates

Quick Reference

  • Submission period: July 27, 2026 at 9:00 AM PST through August 7, 2026 at 11:59 PM PST.
  • Voting period: July 27, 2026 at 9:00 AM PST through August 10, 2026 at 11:59 PM PST.
  • Fabric Sticker Contest Gallery

See the Important Information section below for complete details on submissions, voting, prizes, and eligibility.

Important Information

  • All registered community members are invited to vote by giving a kudo to as many designs as they want.
  • Submit your entries from July 27th, 9AM PST – August 7th, 11:59PM PST.
  • Voting will be available from July 27th, 9AM PST – August 10th, 11:59PM PST.

Each winner will be awarded 100 copies of their sticker design, accompanied by assorted swag items (swag will not contain your design). The prizes can be collected onsite during the FabCon & SQLCon Conference held in Barcelona from September 28th – October 1st or shipped to those who are unable to attend.

Microsoft reserves the right to select additional designs to print and distribute. Community members whose submissions were not chosen as winners in their category but were chosen for printing and distribution will receive 25 stickers of their designs mailed to them.

Winner Selection

  • All eligible kudos received before August 10, 2026 at 11:59 PM PST will be considered.
  • Community voting and design quality will be considered when selecting winners.

Design Requirements

  1. Designs must be positive, inclusive, encouraging, and community-focused.
  2. Do not use product names, logos, trademarks, or copyrighted Microsoft material.
  3. Sticker size should be 2" x 2" or 3" x 2".
  4. Text must remain legible at print size and should not be smaller than 12 pt.
  5. Designs will be printed on a white background.
  6. Custom-shaped stickers are allowed.
  7. Create artwork at 300 DPI or higher.
  8. Use CMYK color space for best print accuracy.
  9. Attach the sticker image and source design file when submitting.
  10. Indicate which challenge category matches the design.
Microsoft reserves the right to remove or disqualify submissions that are inappropriate, offensive, or not aligned with community standards.

Important Resources

Enter

  1. Navigate to the Inspiration section on the Community homepage.
  2. Select Fabric platform galleries.
  3. Open Fabric Sticker Contest Gallery.
  4. Select Submit to gallery.
  5. Enter a title, with a maximum of 99 characters.
  6. Add the sticker image to the description.
  7. Upload the sticker design file.
  8. Attach a PDF version of the design.
  9. Select the appropriate Barcelona 2026 category label.
  10. Click Publish to submit your entry.

Vote

  1. Open the Fabric Sticker Contest Gallery.
  2. Use category filters to browse entries.
  3. Select a design.
  4. Click kudos 👍 to cast your vote.

Can’t Wait to See Your Ideas!

Whether you are creating an inside joke, celebrating a new certification, showcasing AI innovation, or capturing the spirit of Barcelona, we look forward to seeing your creativity shine.

uzuntasgokberk
Super User

When using Power BI Copilot, you may sometimes want certain tables or columns to be ignored by Copilot during your analyses. With a short demo, we'll practically explore how to adjust the Semantic Model and see how Copilot responds to these changes.

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ibarrau
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Super User

Power BI alerts are a feature that allows us to send an email or mobile notification when a metric meets a specified condition. They are very useful, but they have their limitations.

If we wanted to monitor more than just a single number that meets a rule—for example, to stay continuously informed about one or more key metrics, or even receive a small table of values—our only built-in option would be a subscription. There are many alternatives, but none are as simple as turning on your PC and checking Microsoft Teams to see how specific metrics are performing under different conditions.

In this article, we'll see how to configure Power Automate to send an email or a Microsoft Teams message containing the results of a DAX query.

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InsightsByV
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Super User

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uzuntasgokberk
Super User
Super User

To get the best insights from Power BI Copilot, you need to ensure it understands your data model accurately. In this guide, I'll walk you through four essential steps that help Copilot interpret your Power BI model more effectively.

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Natarajan_M
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Super User

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Juless
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Advocate I

Power BI is teaching AI to design better reports. But is that enough?

Microsoft's new Report Design skill can now guide layout, typography, colour and accessibility as part of the AI-assisted build process. It's a genuinely exciting shift for how reports get made.

But it raises a question worth sitting with: what should we actually be prompting for?

"Make it accessible" isn't a spec. An AI agent still needs to know what "accessible" means in numbers: contrast ratios, minimum font sizes, target sizes, how alt text should behave when a reader changes a filter.

In my latest article, I break down what this new capability actually is, what it isn't yet, and the exact kind of prompt that turns "make it accessible" into something an AI agent can build from.

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uzuntasgokberk
Super User
Super User

Is it possible to create a Power BI report by simply writing a prompt instead of going through long and manual steps? I personally tested the Power BI Copilot feature and experienced the process of generating a report with a single command, step by step. Here’s what I learned.

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Juless
Advocate I
Advocate I

Alternative text in Power BI is often treated as an afterthought, yet for screen‑reader users, it’s the only way a visual becomes meaningful. And while dynamic alt text is essential for interactive reports, writing it repeatedly across visuals and projects can quickly become tedious.

 

This article explores how DAX User‑Defined Functions (UDFs) can transform that workflow. By encapsulating reusable narrative patterns into native DAX functions, you can build a consistent, scalable foundation for accessible reporting, one that adapts to slicers, filters, drill‑downs and refreshes without rewriting the same logic over and over.

 

You’ll learn how UDFs work, how to structure parameters, how to call them from measures, and why separating narrative logic from model logic makes accessibility both easier and more maintainable. Whether you’re building reports solo or supporting a wider BI team, this approach helps you create alt text that’s dynamic, meaningful and genuinely helpful for screen‑reader users.

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pankajnamekar25
Super User
Super User

Ever made one "small" theme or formatting change to a multi-page report, then had to click through every single page just to make sure nothing quietly broke? Power BI's new Desktop Bridge lets a tool  or an AI agent - check your report's state and screenshot every page automatically, in seconds. Here's what it is and a simple real example.

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harry-arce
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Manual analytics work doesn't add up at scale — it multiplies. This post shows how treating your Fabric artifacts as source code, pairing AI agents with a deterministic core, turns analytics automation from a clever demo into something production-ready. Architecture, components, and where to start inside. 👇

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