Fabric Ideas

krutikapai

Hi Everyone, I am using Advanced Gantt Chart by Definitive Logic on Power BI. When a Phase and Milestone gantt chart is created using that view, the data labels are set for some on left, for some on right and for some in the center of Phase bars and Milestones. Currently, the formatting does not have an option to place data labels on a specific side and is automatically handled by the visual depending on space and layout. Can we have an option to place all labels for Phases and Milestones in the view on a specific side? All data labels will either be on left or all on right side of Phases and Milestones. Attached is the screenshot with dummy data and data labels (highlighted) which are placed by default to left, right and center.

Element115

ISSUE: In a Fabric pipeline, after creating for the first time a new table or writing to a lakehouse table with a Copy Data activity, pipeline execution moves on to the next activity in the pipeline faster than the lakehouse has time to update and show that there is new data available to downstream activities. When these activities try to read from the lakehouse table, of course, this causes an error. If this happens right after the table was created for the first time, the pipeline environment does not see the table as existing yet since the execution thread is moving forward faster than the lakehouse can update and tell the pipeline that now it has a new table or new data. POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS: 1__Have an option in the Settings tab that when checked, causes the Copy Data activity to start waiting for a response from the lakehouse. After the lakehouse sends the response that the all the data or table has been committed, clear the wait flag, and Copy Data activity completes its execution, and the pipeline execution resumes with the next activity. OR 2__Provide a new activity called "Wait for I/O commit", which would pause the pipeline execution and wait for the lakehouse that is specified in its settings to send a message that the data is now available for read operations. Upon receipt of said message, this activity would allow pipeline executoin to resume. 2 simple, elegant, and user-friendly ways to once and for all get rid of this synchronization headache.

kimco

When a report uses RLS and a user with access to the app attempts to access it prior to being added to the Security screen, a message directing them to contact the "dataset owner" pops up. The problem is, the "dataset owner" is just the last person who "took ownership" of a given dataset....we have several people on our team who manage this, and we "take over" reports for various reasons throughout the day/week. We would much prefer to designate the contact information listed in that popup instead, the way we can for the "request access" popup when a user doesn't have access to the app...

lixinche2025

most of our data processing code was implemented in Scala. This choice was driven by Scala’s native integration with Spark, superior performance, full access to Spark features, strong compile-time safety, and more mature tooling and ecosystem support at the time. While PySpark has significantly improved—offering near API parity, better performance, and support for the Pandas API—migrating all our existing Scala code to Python might not provide the best user experience and could introduce unnecessary complexity. Could you provide Scala support in AI features?

lcordovab

Problem: Reordering the 'Explain By' dimension list in the Decomposition Tree currently requires navigating away to the Visualizations pane, interrupting the analysis workflow. Suggestion: Allow users to drag and drop the dimension options to reorder them directly within the opern columns. Benefit: This provides a much faster, more intuitive way to explore different analysis paths on-the-fly, improving user experience and analytical speed, especially with complex financial datasets.

AndyWald

Org Apps look promising, but the inability to disable the 'Share' permission for app users at the Tenant level keeps us from being able to use it. Please add the option to enable/disable this feature in the Admin Portal.

slittle4782

With Gen2 dataflows you can set a data destination, (e.g. a DWH table). However if you need to modify the dataflow to add, remove, rename, retype fields, there is no way to change the schema of the data destination. Its a horrible user experience as you need to use SSMS or some other tool to drop or modify the table, then go back into the dataflow and add the table again as new. Please make this simpler for the developers and allow them to modify the destination schema from within the dataflow UI. Or better yet, suggest the changes to the user and allow them to approve.

slittle4782

If you create a Gen2 dataflow and set the data destination to "DWH" you can create a table in the DWH. If you later modify the dataflow to add a column, this column doesn't appear in the DWH. When you publish the report or when you run the dataflow THERE IS NO INDICATION OF A PROBLEM - everything looks good. Please provide some indication that there is an issue so that the developer can fix it.

MikePrefix

The Clickhouse connector for PowerBI Desktop is great! That said it would be even better to be able to query Clickhouse via the PowerBI Service/online without having to use an on-prem connector.

mraka9

Please improve the text filter so that it allows using multiple words as a single criterion. For example, I want to filter all items that contain two or more words, such as "blue" and "red", and then I want to add all items that contain "green", "white", and "yellow". Currently, this is only possible by entering blue*red. The problem is that the filter does not search for items where "red" appears before "blue" in the text. In other words, it takes word order into account, which means all possible combinations have to be written out, which is a huge task when dealing with three or more words in a single criterion. It would be great if the filter also allowed for exclusion criteria. For instance, I want the item to contain "blue" and "yellow" but not "white". So, I would enter something like this: =blue =yellow <>white and press Enter. It's important that the filter doesn't care about the order in which the words appear in the item description.

MaximePontus

I would like to request the ability to customise the background and font colours of report page tabs in Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service. Currently, it is not possible to change page tab colours natively and users are limited to using emoticons in tab names or hiding the default navigation as a workaround Suggested Implementation Options: Right-click menu: Add a "change tab colour" option when right-clicking on a page tab (similar to Excel worksheet tabs).

Alkame

Hello Power BI Team, One of the challenges I often face while building reports is the lack of a native visual that effectively displays images alongside dynamic information in a customizable way. Currently, I have to rely on marketplace visuals to show product pictures or info cards, but many of them are either limited or not as performant as the built-in visuals. What I’m looking for is a visual that: Displays an image (e.g., a product photo). Allows the image to be interactive or serve as a background for related data. Offers customization options such as: Adding text above or below the image. Adjusting font size and spacing (e.g., gap between title and description). Changing layout and alignment to fit various use cases. There is a marketplace visual called Multio Info Cards that partially addresses this need, but it's still somewhat restrictive. A built-in or officially supported visual designed specifically for showcasing images with flexible info overlays would be incredibly valuable—especially for product-based businesses where visuals of items alongside key metrics are essential for reporting. Thank you for considering this idea. I believe it would enhance the visual storytelling capabilities of Power BI and open up new use cases for product-driven reporting.

mjfk

Since a pipeline orchestration can consist of many layers, it would be very helpful if the logging in the monitor can be presented in a hierarchical way where subtasks can be opened and hidden. This makes it much easier to analyse the monitor logging for debugging purpopes. Now it's just a list of run tasks with start time and finish time. This is not very helpful if you quickly want to understand what went wrong.

riley

There should be ways to sort reports in a workspace. We have workspaces with hundreds of reports that we publish for clients. We publish the same set of reports each month. We can't remove them, and we can't join them together without a complete overhaul of how we manage data. The reports are automatically sorted with the first report created at the top. This doesn't even make sense. It should be the most recent report created at the top and the oldest one at the bottom of the list. Please add the ability to sort alphabetically by name, by report type, and by last refreshed date.

mattt1786

Would love to be able to add reports from different workspaces to an org app. Currently we have to copy the report to where the workspace the org app lives in.

Juriaan-007

I woulk like to see in the propperties of a data source in a dataflow in which worspace the data is in. For instance if i have dataflow df2 in workspace ws2 poining to a lakehouse lh1 in ws 1, i kan only see this at creation time. Id df2 was made by someone else i do not know the origin.

KratosBI

Microsoft Fabric needs auto-scale capabilities that allow us to define scale CU budgets by workspace & capacity. I have outlined the Why, What, Who, Where, and How of this feature here: https://youtu.be/6pGrhGt7SXE Why do we need AutoScale? End of the month end of quarter End of year WHAT? Need CU’s to meet demand. Who needs it? Data Engineering Data Analysts Data Scientists Report Consumers Where should this be implemented? Workspace Capacity Tenant How should this be implemented? PAYGO Set budgets Allow Reservations

angela_n

I wanted to suggest a feature that could make working with Airflow and Terraform way smoother. Right now, deploying DAGs with Terraform can be a bit of a hassle since it involves extra steps to get those files in the right place. Let’s make it so you can just copy DAG files into a specific path, and Airflow automatically picks them up. It would enable easier automation. ** Please add the Terraform label 😉 Thanks,

wjmac

Request that Power BI line chart markers include a feature to permit conditional selection of the marker shape type (i.e., circle, square, diamond, or SVG code, etc.). In my use case, the data source has a choice column (i.e., milestone, task, event, etc.) that would be used to determine the marker shape type.

Dvarga0914

Imagine Power BI reports that don't just present data but act like truly dynamic, interactive data applications. Imagine intuitive custom slicers that work in one click, UI elements that react intelligently to user context beyond simple cross-filtering, and developers spending less time on brittle workarounds and more time delivering sophisticated, tailored user experiences. I believe Power BI has the potential to evolve further in this direction by bridging the gap between its powerful data engine and its user interface layer. The Problem: The Compromise Chasm & Workaround Hell As Power BI developers, we often hit a ceiling when trying to fully realize specific user requirements for interactivity and custom UI behavior. This leads to compromises: Core Visual Limitations: While the core visuals are great for standard scenarios, they frequently lack the specific interaction patterns (like advanced slicing, dynamic navigation) or deep customization needed for tailored solutions. DAX is "UI-Blind": DAX is phenomenal for data modeling and calculation based on the results of filtering (SELECTEDVALUE, ISFILTERED). However, it fundamentally lacks awareness of the UI state itself. It cannot natively know: Which specific slicer triggered a filter if multiple exist for the same field. The current state of a toggle button or custom UI element. Which specific bookmark is active (only its filtering effect). Properties of visual containers (like IDs, names, current visibility state unless tied to data). The Bookmark/Parameter Burden: To overcome these limitations, we resort to complex workarounds: Intricate webs of bookmarks showing/hiding elements to simulate states (often making bookmarks a developer tool instead of a user feature). Disconnected parameter tables and "controller" measures just to pass simple state information into DAX. Impact: This drastically increases development time, clutters the data model and bookmark pane, makes reports opaque and incredibly difficult to maintain or hand over (often necessitating a rebuild), and degrades the efficiency of iterative development. Development Pace: While the Fabric ecosystem and AI features are rapidly evolving, the development pace for fundamentally enhancing core visual interactivity options and providing developers with deeper programmatic control over the UI layer feels slower, leaving these gaps unaddressed year after year. The Proposed Solution: Native UI Scripting & DAX/UI Communication I propose enhancing Power BI Desktop and Service with first-class support for native UI-aware scripting, potentially using TypeScript, coupled with robust communication channels between this scripting layer and the DAX engine/data model. This could involve: Object Model Access: Allowing script (e.g., TypeScript) running within Power BI to reliably access a Report Object Model, getting unique IDs, names, current states (selected value, toggle state, visibility), and properties of visuals, slicers, buttons, pages, and bookmarks. DAX State Awareness: New DAX functions or mechanisms to read state variables or context set by the scripting layer (e.g., GET_VISUAL_STATE("MyCustomSlicerID", "SelectedCount"), IS_BOOKMARK_ACTIVE("MySpecificBookmark")). (Advanced) Bi-directional Communication: Potentially allowing script to trigger specific measure evaluations or DAX to influence non-data-bound UI properties (though this requires careful architectural consideration). Benefits & Results: True Data Application Potential: Power BI could become a genuine low-code and pro-code environment for building data-centric applications, not just reports. Highly Custom Interactivity: Developers could build precisely the slicers, navigators, buttons, and interactive logic users need (like one-click applicant switchers, dynamic pagination, context-aware controls) without compromises. Reduced Workaround Complexity: Dramatically reduce reliance on brittle bookmark/parameter hacks, leading to cleaner models, faster development, and vastly improved maintainability. Developer Empowerment: Give developers the tools to solve complex UI/UX challenges directly within the platform. Fewer Compromises: Deliver solutions that exactly match user requirements more often. Addressing Concerns: This doesn't need to sacrifice Power BI's ease of use for simpler scenarios. The core drag-and-drop, filter-based interaction should remain. This proposed capability would be an additional, optional layer for developers needing advanced control, perhaps enabled via a "pro-developer" mode or specific visual types (requiring user opt-in and clear warnings about complexity/potential issues). Call to Action: Is this vision of a more programmable UI layer within Power BI shared by others in the community? Would having deeper, more direct interaction between the UI state and the data/DAX logic unlock significant value for your projects? I believe this is a crucial area for future Power BI evolution and would love to hear thoughts from the community and Microsoft.

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Placement of data labels on a specific side in Advanced Gantt Chart by Definitive Logic

LAKEHOUSE I/O WRITE DELAY MITIGATION

Custom message or contact for RLS Access Denied

support AI features in Scala

Decomposition Tree: Enable Drag & Drop Reordering of 'Explain By' List Within Visual

Org Apps - ability to disable re-sharing at tenant level

Allow user to modify the destination schema when using a Gen2 dataflow

Provide warning indication when Gen2 dataflows run, but not all fields exist in the destination tabl

Clickhouse connector in PowerBI Service

Text slicer

Allow customizable page tab colors

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Sorting reports in a workspace

Add reports from different workspaces to org app

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Feature Request: Enable Copying DAG Files to a Path

In Power BI line charts, allow conditional marker type (i.e., circle, square, diamond, etc.).

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