Microsoft launched its Power BI April 2021 Feature Summary almost 2 weeks back. Couldn’t blog about it immediately as I was a bit preoccupied. Still trying to be regular at blogging. Here is my selection of noteworthy highlights in Power BI Desktop.
Reporting
- Power Automate for Power BI
- This is still in Preview but a crazy update as this will essentially allow you to perform a task based on the data decisions you take right from PBI itself.
- Honestly, I do not see much value add as most of the clients I have worked with only use Power BI (for Data Analytics) and hardly use Power Platform. Power Platform is a world in itself.
- New and Improved Shapes
- This is really helpful, we want more and more Powerpoint stuff here to make our lives easy !!!
- These shapes also bring better formatting options.
- Microsoft has also added the ability to Convert from Old Shapes to New Shapes
- Invert axis
- Strangely, I cannot find this feature on my PBI Desktop. It is also not there in MS Video Summary
DAX
- CROSSFILTER
- It now supports many-to-many, you will now find OneWay_LeftFiltersRight and OneWay_RightFiltersLeft in the dropdown.
- This will enable us to have better control over the direction of our filter flow
- IF and SWITCH
- MS has mentioned that there are performance improvements done here.
- Unfortunately, I am unsure how to check them.
Service
- Easy report sharing via links
- Users can now easily share links with one another.
- Note: Admin needs to enable this from Admin Portal Tenant Settings
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Image Credits: Microsoft’s Official Power BI April 2021 Feature Summary.
