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MarioVW
Advocate I
5 years ago
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Dynamic values in text box

Recently (I believe May 2021 version) I noticed that now any text box visual in Power BI Desktop gives me the option to add dynamic values (not a Smart Narrative visual, but a simple text box). Howev...
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    MarioVW
    5 years ago

    I just found the cause of the issue, I'm posting it for anyone else reading this thread.

     

    Adding dynamic values on Smart Narratives visuals (and in text boxes) uses the Q&A feature under the hood. So I tried to add a Q&A visual and I got an error message saying that Q&A was not supported for this report.

     

    The problem was that the language was configured as Spanish, even though I had the Spanish language support for Q&A preview feature turned off (I might have turned it on sometime in the past but then turned it off again, but apparently the model language was stuck as Spanish). Once I changed the model language back to English everything started working smoothly.

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MarioVW
Advocate I
5 years ago

Yeah, I haven't seen the feature documented anywhere, but still I see it when using Power BI Desktop, but for some reason I'm unable to use it. I understand and have used the workaround suggested by v-deddai1-msft but my question is regarding this (yet) undocumented new feature.