Everyone's been complaining about Claude eating through tokens mid-session and I get it, it was killing my flow too. Haven't seen anyone mention connecting it to Codex instead - which is currently free as far as I know. No more context running out, no more starting over. If you haven't tried this yet, might be worth it. Anyone else made this switch?

I must have been working with PowerBI for at least 7-8 years now and only just realised why I make the same mistake every single time.

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I click height, (you know the uppy downy size) type in my visuals height, tab, do the width, tab (its a triple tab) and type the uppy downy position) tab and type the righty left position, then go feck thats not right and click in and switch it.

WHY are the uppy downys and the righty leftys not in the same order! 🤣 My brain is not programmed this way 🤣

What’s the best way to take bits and pieces of information for 20+ reports and brining that all together and joining them by date and location? These reports live with different departments at the company. What’s the out of the box thinking approach I should consider or should I just direct query all these reports and semantic models into one big semantic model?

I‘m making a dashboard for my lab’s SQL Server based LIMS. We have samples and, for example’s sake, five different tests we can run on them. Depending on the sample type, some or all of the tests may be performed, which leaves a lot of null data in the table.

I am wondering if I should out each test into its own table with a Sample Id and Result and remove the nulls in Power Query. This also seems advantageous since I have a different target for each test and sample type, and a DAX calculation that will use the target to determine pass/fail.

Intuitively this seems faster but more complicated to work with. Is it worth breaking each test out into its own table and having my DAX pass/fail formulas just check for nulls?

After digging through the May Power BI update, this one feels more focused on usability and report experience improvements than major platform shifts, but there are a few features I think could actually impact day-to-day report development quite a bit.

A few things that stood out to me:

• Visual calculations + custom totals reaching GA feels important. Curious whether people are actually starting to use visual calculations in production yet, or if most teams are still sticking with traditional DAX patterns.
• Input slicer numeric support seems small at first, but honestly opens up a lot more practical use cases for parameter-style filtering and user-driven analysis.
• The new fixed/default column widths for matrix and table visuals might be one of the most underrated additions in a while. I know a lot of people have struggled with layout consistency in dashboards.
• Matrix Explore improvements also seem interesting, especially for self-service analytics scenarios where users want to drill into data without needing entirely separate report pages.
• The Copilot summarize shortcut feels like another signal Microsoft is continuing to push AI directly into everyday reporting workflows rather than treating it as a separate experience.
• The Azure Maps formatting pane updates are nice too, though I’m curious how many people here are heavily using Azure Maps vs other mapping visuals.

Overall this update feels more polished/productivity-oriented compared to some of the larger Fabric-focused releases recently.

Curious what others think:

• Which feature here is actually most useful in real-world reporting?
• Anyone actively using visual calculations in enterprise reports yet?
• Do you think Copilot integrations are becoming genuinely useful, or still mostly early-stage?

I’m so close to loosing it cause Wdym I needed only 13 points💔💔💔💔💔
Please let me know what resources I need to use/buy
I’m not retaking this exam after the 3rd attempt 😭😭
I’ve already used measureup so that won’t work for me here!
Thanks

Hi to all the experienced data analysts,

My question to you is, I am working in my current org from 6 months, from the moment I have joined, something or the other goes wrong with me, in the first month I joined there was an escalation, as I was late with a dashboard. Then something or the other kept coming up, just when I thought I was above it all a critical dashboard hadn’t refreshed from 2 days, all the leaders review it continuously, and I took half day for it to be up (it takes 2/3 hours to refresh it). And now I am again running late with a dashboard. Am I not a fit to be a data analyst?

I need your impartial opinion.

Anyone know how to create a Power BI Template that has Persistent Filter off the goal is to have a template to save time with turning off persistent filter every report built and a template with a few standard things we have across all our reports

I have Current, Previous, and Diff periods created using Tabular calculations. To display the measure names separately, I moved them into a text field above the matrix. However, I can’t get the filtering to work properly, and because of that the visual becomes basically useless in Power BI.

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I'm tasked in creating a table where the users can change the year and quarter in one filter, and the first column will fetch the cost for that period. The second quarter + year filter will work the same but fetch the cost for that specific period.
Lastly we want to evaluate the difference between the columns and present the change in %

I have one table with nr, cost and date and a separate date table where year and quarter are mashed together.
I'm at a loss at how to solve this without duplicating the fact table.

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Hello everyone! I’m a new Power BI intern and I’m encountering a problem.

I have 2 tables, one big (fact) table which contains invoices data which we paid to our vendors, and there is a “country code” column inside it which I’m trying to connect to “legal entity code” column from the other (dimension) table.

The relationship works, but the data from the dimension table returns as blank. I already changed the type of both data to “text”, and tried clearing/formatting the code (i forgot the function name cuz i’m at home now) but nothing seemed to work. I also tried changing the relationship to be both ways, many to many, etc, all things but no combination seemed to work.

What could the solution be, and what am I doing wrong?

Our company relies heavily on pdf exports of PBI reports. Just realized a column is cut off in a matrix after exporting. Is there any way to prevent this from happening?

I am aware of paginated reports.. we do not have the time to recreate things in paginated report builder right now.

Monthly Update

Microsoft Power BI Updates Blog: Power BI May 2026 Feature Summary

Some notable releases this month:

• The modern Get Data (Power Query) experience now in Power BI Desktop!!!
• Version History in Power BI Desktop
• Column fixed and default width for table and matrix (Generally Available)

Preview burn down!!!

• Visual calculations and custom totals (Generally Available)
• Custom totals: None and Average (Generally Available)
• Set as landing page (Generally Available)
• Default format string locale for dates and numbers (Generally Available)
• Translytical task flows: optional parameters and default values (Generally Available)
• Input slicer numeric column support (Generally available)
• Matrix auto-expand for embedded visuals and Explore (Generally Available)
• Text box in Power BI reports list formatting improvements (Generally Available)
• Azure maps formatting pane (Generally Available)

Notable Updates:

• Modern visual defaults improvements (Preview)

Reported, Fixed, or Documented

• Search visual won't let you cancel the entered search value in service ( u/DataZoeMS and team working on it!)

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I'm asked to create a summary report from the reports published by various teams, some sort of report of the reports because some C-Level doesn't want to see all the reports but certain parts of it.

Actually, I understand the request but I find it a bit tricky to implement in Power BI.

I'm thinking of the following three solutions:

Workspace Apps (or Org Apps)

Main problem with this is the reports are in different workspaces. I have to create a copy of each report in a specific workspace and I don't know how to keep the original and the copy in sync. (maybe deployment pipelines?)

Dashboards

I can pin visuals to a dashboard but I'm not a big fan of this object. It looks outdated and isn't very flexible/customizable.

Having reports in different workspaces is creating the same issue as in Apps.

Connecting to the Semantic Model of each report

This is the option I'm looking at. I will create a new semantic model that reads the measure table from different reports and I will revisualize them. For 3 reports it works well but I'm not sure if I will hit performance issues with more semantic models (let's say 10+).

I'd love to hear from you if you came across a similar situation.

Note: I have access to Premium Capacity (Fabric features are blocked)

I would like to create a drill through for a table that has multiple values.

The table would have client, invoice number, and aging buckets like 0 to 30 days, 31 to 60 days, etc.

When I drill through on a 31 to 60 days, I want my drill through page to only show invoices that have values other than 0 for 31 to 60 days. But right now it shows all invoice aging buckets. But I also want it to be able to filter for the other buckets as well so if you drill through on 0 to 30 days you only get non zero for those.

I would very much like to avoid creating multiple drill through pages with hard filters if possible.

I learned about using a folder as my data source. I have 2 files in it to pull data from. Every time I go to combine the data, I get an error from one of the files.

I've spent hours working on cleaning up the data. I can't find any differences between the two files.

I want to be able to do this, I just have no idea what I'm doing wrong