Power BI Monthly Digest for April 2019

Check out Pragmatic Work’s Power BI monthly digest, where we take a comprehensive looks at Power BI’s latest releases, updates and what that means for you! The video clip is towards the bottom of this post. 🙂

April 2019 brought a lot of new content which can be explored more in-depth. There’s a 400+ page overview of 2019 Dynamics 365 and Power Platform releases, too… https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/april19/

And if you’re interested in learning more about dataflows, check out last week’s Data-Radiant post! 🙂 https://data-radiant.com/2019/04/12/dataflows-in-power-bi-considerations/

A comparison of how dataflows fits in the ETL process…

In this month’s Power BI Digest, Manuel Quintana [Blog | Twitter] and Devin Knight will again guide you through some of our favorite Power BI updates this month. In our April 2019 edition, they highlight the following features:

  • Filter Pane updates
  • Restrict ability of users to change the Filter Pane filter types
  • Conditional formatting on tiles
  • Conditional formatting on Web URL Visual Actions
  • M Intellisense in formula bar
  • Drillthrough across reports