Recently, I came across a requirement where I had to display hierarchy data. Lower levels of data should be shown as a ratio of all the segments available rather than a ratio in its own group. Also, some multiplication factors need to be applied. In addition, hierarchy needs to be summed up from lower levels instead of grouping and rolling up. Below article describes how set up the calculation and data.

I've created a python notebook that helps to automate review and testing of Power BI reports. It embeds a report and then works through every (visible) page and exports the data from every (visible and exportable) visual.

In this newsletter, we’ll dive into hierarchical directories and how they’re used in analytics. Let's clarify what we mean.

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Power BI can connect to, transform and visualise data. Which is great but how do we get that modified data out?

One way is using a Power Automate flow to connect to the published Power BI dataset.

In this video we discuss how to manage a notebook PySpark code throughout the deployment pipeline stages, so that it adjusts dynamically to each deployment stage without needing manual interaction.

All About Power BI Metrics, A hidden Gem

It's a great external tool to generate developer documentation for our reports with a single click, and we want to have a report or document that documents the entire process from data import to Power BI, and from Power BI report authoring to delivery.

In the process, we'll have a lot of pages, measures, parameters, calculation groups, even Power Query queries, and so on. Sometimes we need something to be able to visually observe it and count this information, so the tool shared today will be able to help you!

Custom Sorting with Power BI

Custom sorting in Power BI can significantly enhance the clarity and impact of your data visualizations. However, users often encounter several challenges when setting up custom sorts. Here’s a look at some of the common hurdles and how to overcome them:

Step 1

Create a Custom Table with all the category either manually in Power Query or read from source.

Create a new column beside and provide the number in the order you want to arrange.

Step 2

Create a relationship between the column in actual table to the custom sort table.

Step 3

Create a column in Actual table with an expression.

Sort order = RELATED(CustomSortTable[Sort])

Step 4

Select the column you want to sort, and a “Column Tools” menu bar will appear at the top. Now Select the “Sort by column” and select the sort order column.

In this blog, we'll explore how to display the previous 6 months of data based on a single slicer selection in Power BI.

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In this guide, we’ll cover how to bring task data from Microsoft Planner into Power BI for analysis, using Power Automate and SharePoint as intermediaries. Since Power BI currently lacks a direct Planner connector, Power Automate lets us fetch the data from Planner and save it to SharePoint as a JSON file, enabling Power BI to access it on a scheduled basis.

There are various scenarios where Power BI requires a gateway to refresh our information. Sometimes it's necessary and makes sense, but other times it can be frustrating.

There may be more scenarios than the ones I will mention, but typically when scraping a website (using the Web.Pages function in Power Query), a gateway is required. You might have a complex operation that you consider solving with Python within Power BI, but that also requires a gateway.

This article will show how we can use Azure Functions to perform a simple operation with Python and then read it from Power BI as a simple API GET request.

Have you ever worked in Power Query editor and you had to create lot of "helping" queries to achieve your goal? Usually you started to have lot of queries with similar names and majority are just disabled for loading?

Well actually there is an old trick, where you don't need to do that (in majority of cases) and you can just do "self reference" your existing query.

Have you ever wished you could schedule an automatic snapshot of calculated data from Power BI and then build a report on top of it? 

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