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Login to Power BI with Guest Account
As a Power BI developer you are sometimes working for different organizations and have to access multiple tenants. To do this, you either have a dedicated account in each tenant or you are added as a guest to an organization. Accessing Power BI in an external tenant via browser or via Power BI Desktop is…
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Single Date Picker in Power BI
In the sphere of data analysis and visualization, Power BI emerges as a leading tool, adept at turning raw data into comprehensive reports and dashboards. Despite its strengths, we’ve found it lacking a specific, commonly used feature: the integration of a single date picker within a report. This feature, surprisingly not included by default, is…
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Automated Power BI Testing with Selenium
Working with Power BI can become challenging as the size and complexity of your workspaces increase. Initially, managing a few reports linked to your dataset is straightforward. However, as the number of reports and their dependencies grow, keeping track of everything becomes more difficult. Power BI offers the option to see, what artefacts in your…
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Analyse bexio Data with Power BI
Like many other SME in Switzerland, we are using bexio as our administration and accounting tool. bexio allows for some limited standardized reporting within the service but we needed more flexibility. So we created our own report with Power BI, focusing mainly on two points: Our report allows to compare liquid assets year over year…
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Cultivating Intelligence: The Data-Backed Future of Vertical Farming
Introduction: Data-Driven Cultivation – Where Science Meets Innovation In the realm of modern agriculture, a profound shift is underway — a harmonious blend of science and innovation that’s shaping the future of farming. Imagine a world where plant growth is deciphered through data, where technology orchestrates a seamless partnership with nature. In this blog, we…
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Why Enterprises using Power BI should be excited about MS Fabric
Admittedly this blog is a little late to the party. A few months ago, everybody jumped on the hype train surrounding Microsoft’s latest innovation, Microsoft Fabric. But perhaps, in this case, tardiness is a virtue, since it has allowed me the time to look beyond the initial wave of excitement and truly understand what makes…
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Dynamic Axis in Power BI
Welcome to my blog on how to create dynamic axes for visuals in Power BI using field parameters. If you’re familiar with creating visuals in Power BI, you may have come across the challenge of displaying data over time in a way that remains visually appealing and informative when the time period under consideration changes.…
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Static and dynamic Row-level-Security in Power BI
Power BI enables developers to implement Row-level-security (RLS) in their reports, which is a powerful feature that allows you to restrict data access at the row level. With RLS, you can ensure that users only see the data that they are authorized to see. This feature is particularly useful in situations where you have sensitive…
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Incorrect Power BI Report Data After Refresh
You just spent a lot of time designing your report and now it’s time to upload it to the Power BI Service. After setting up the credentials for the data source, you hit refresh to make sure the data can be pulled from the source. The refresh completes without error and you switch over to…
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Connecting Power BI to remote SQL Server from outside the domain with Windows authentication
As an external employee or consultant, you sometimes have to connect to on-premises data from a remote location. We recently ran into troubles while connecting to a MS SQL Server from a machine which was not in the same domain as the SQL Server. The user credentials and the VPN connection was in place but…
