This blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI Developers community. Don’t forget to check out the September blog post, if you haven’t done so already.Power BI Embedded Here is the list of…
» Read moreIn this tutorial, will show how you can use these powerful APIs to duplicate a workspace and all the dashboards, reports and datasets within. We’ve also provided a fully functioning PowerShell script so you can jump in and see it working right away.
» Read moreThis blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI Developers community. This includes Power BI Embedded updates, changes to custom visuals and R, and improvements to Row-Level Security.
» Read moreWe've decided to start posting regularly to our dedicated community of developers in a monthly post. We'll gather all the news, tips and tricks, canonical scenarios, and best practices for developers who are integrating, enhancing, or embedding Power BI. We'd love to hear back from you to make sure we're providing you the most relevant info we can. Now let's look at the summer updates for Power BI Embedded and custom visual development!
» Read moreWe are excited to announce support for ‘bring your own entities’ for the Bing News solution template! The Bing News template allows brand managers to find articles most relevant to them by filtering on sentiment, trending topics as well as entities like locations, organizations and people. One of the most common feature requests we received was the ability to define your own list of words and use that to slice your data. A product manager may want to e.g. create a list of products or company names and use that to slice and dice collected news articles. Read on to find out how you can incorporate your own entities into the news template today!
» Read moreJune was an exciting month for Power BI! Read on for a summary of the features that we released in both the service and mobile. Also, remember that with Premium, features in the Power BI service accrues to both the SaaS and embedded analytics use cases!
» Read moreToday, I am excited to announce the general availability of new APIs for managing data refresh in the Power BI service. These new APIs will allow you to programmatically trigger data refreshes and retrieve refresh history for any dataset that you own. With these versatile new tools, you’ll be able to easily automate and scale out Power BI data refresh management – no more clicking through dataset settings or flipping through refresh histories. In addition, these APIs open the door to integrating data refresh into your existing ETL or deployment processes. You could, for example, trigger Power BI data refresh as the last step in your Azure Data Factory ETL pipeline. And, as an ISV, you can easily manage the data for all your embedded analytics solutions.
» Read moreR is a strong and popular language, enabling developers to create great analytics on data, as well as visualization. Developers can already create R custom visuals that plugs into Power BI reports, to enable report authors to use those custom visuals without known R. This is a powerful capability to extend the visualizations of Power BI. We are proud to announce that R custom visuals can now also be interactive, by generating HTML as the visual (instead of the static image that was supported until now), R custom visuals are capable of supporting tooltips and selections.
» Read moreAs part of the Microsoft Build event, we are announcing a developer preview of the Data Connector SDK. You can begin to create your own custom data connectors. What are data connectors? Simply put, they are how you connect to data within Power BI. These are extensions on the connectivity/Mashup engine that powers the “Get Data” experience in Power BI and Excel.
» Read moreDo you have SharePoint Online and want to better automate and streamline your business processes? Have you heard of PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, or Power BI, but you’re not sure how to use them with SharePoint Online? You’ve come to the right place!
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