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October 2023 Updates for Power BI

23 October 2023

This month’s updates see OneDrive and SharePoint integration, as well as improvements to On-object Interaction, and de-duplication rules for composite models.  Perhaps the Power BI team will also create a dictionary for all these new words they are inventing too…

The full list is as follows:

Reporting

  • Power BI Desktop OneDrive and SharePoint integration
  • On-object Interaction updates in Preview:
      • Date Hierarchy on data flyout
      • Placeholder text for direct text editing
      • Ribbon and Funnel charts now support On-object formatting
    • Power BI Home in Desktop
    • De-duplication rules for composite models on Power BI Datasets and Analysis Services
    Modelling
    • Edit your data model in Power BI Service – updates
    • Model explorer public Preview with calculation group authoring and creating relationships in the Properties pane
    Data connectivity
    • Snowflake (connector update)
    • Planview OKR (new connector)
    • BitSight Security Ratings (connector update)
    • Starburst Enterprise (connector update)
    Service
    • One Lake data hub: ‘Quick access’ to your data:
      • Explorer pane: Quick access
      • Favo(u)rite items
    • Deployment pipelines:
      • Create a customised deployment pipeline of two [2] to 10 stages
      • Deployment pipeline multi-tasking
      • New entry point to the ‘Deployment pipelines’ main page
    Visualisations
    • New visuals in AppSource
    • valQ Plan
    • Date Picker by Powerviz
    • Drill Down Network PRO: show categorical relationships with ease
    • TMap 2.1
    • Inforiver Enterprise brings writeback to Fabric Lakehouse and Warehouse.

    As always, we'll be detailing these updates in our November newsletter. Please remember we have virtual / online training in Power BI which you can find out more about here.  If you are not already a subscriber, why not sign up at the bottom of any SumProduct web page?  And don't forget to download the latest version of Power BI Desktop here too.    
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