Preview Features not showing in the options menu (PowerBI Desktop, January 2023)

[AlexBav]

Hi everyone,

i have been trying to use some of the new preview features but I can´t see any "Preview Feature" within the Options Menu:

In older community posts I have read that preview features are not available for PowerBI Desktop (we are using the version for the PBI report server). Is this still the case? Is there any official document regarding this?

Release:
January 2023

Product Version:
2.112.1421.0 (22.12) (x64)

[WalterPowerBi]

this is going on since 5 years now... not having field parameters is a big loss...

[d_gosbell]

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@WalterPowerBi wrote:

this is going on since 5 years now... not having field parameters is a big loss...

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Field parameters were only released last year. Not 5 years ago. 

[d_gosbell · Accepted solution]

It's documented here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/report-server/compare-report-server-service#:~:text=BI%20...  that Report Server does not support Preview features. I believe this is because in the cloud service, Microsoft can easily push out updates and improvements to these preview features while they cannot do that for an on-prem install. You just need to wait for these features to be Generally Available before they will be considered for addition into Report Server (note that not all features can be ported to Report Server since some of them rely on other cloud services)