Hello! I've watched several youtube videos about the new GA feature of shape maps having the custom map application. I was able to get the TopoJSON/GeoJSON maps for my state government but the 2 outcomes I keep getting are after I have applied the custom (and I have some data to relationship) is what look like scribbles all over the rectangle that used to be the map visual, or it would just fill the entire rectangle with color, no map outputted.

If y'all have any advice or particular how to's to I would greatly appreciate it. The only AI I have access to is Copilot, which you would think it would be a little bit more compatible with their microsoft items but I had to keep reminding it that it was no longer in a preview and I needed new instructions. So y'all are my last hope 🤪

LinkedIn has been full of “this is the end of Power BI” posts again. The timing lines up with a couple of real things that just happened. Claude launched Dashboards in beta earlier this month. People are already posting about describing a report in chat and getting something usable back, and some are connecting it to Power BI semantic models via MCP so it can query live data instead of just inventing charts. At the same time, FabCon Barcelona had Microsoft talking about agentic app creation coming into Power BI Desktop and positioning Fabric Apps as the next step beyond traditional reports. Both are still early, but it's clear where it's headed.

I’ve been watching the noise more than the actual impact so far. Curious what others are seeing. Are any of you noticing real client work shifting because of this, or is it still mostly LinkedIn talk? And if the direction is real, what are you focusing on so you’re not just waiting to get squeezed out?

Is it possible to schedule an excel export directly from powerBI ?

i am using udemy as tutorial. I was asked to change this setting to the one I underlined and click okay. After clicking the Okay, it just grayed out and cant be selected again even I changed other settings. Lastly, after I tried clicking X to close the settings window and tried to check it again. Nothing has changed. Ive been searching the internet for a solution and found one that is to change the max memory usage to 424 but when I do that, Okay button automatically grays out and become unclickable. Please help I am trying to be a Data analyst

Hi everyone,

I’m taking the PL-300 exam on October 18, and I’ve been preparing since last week, studying around 10 hours a day using DataCamp’s Power BI track.

Tomorrow, I plan to work through the Microsoft assessment and around 200 practice questions from Power AI Academy, covering different types of questions that could appear on the exam.

I also have nearly a year of experience working with Power BI and building multiple reports, so I’m not starting from scratch.

- Is my preparation enough to pass?

- With only two days left, how should I prioritize my time?

- Should I focus on reviewing the questions or spend more time revising the exam material?

- Are there any topics I should make sure to review before exam day?

appreciate any advice

It was the go-to button for my users who had issues with filters / visuals, and now it's gone! No way?! Need to toggle off the preview to have back, not cool.

I didn't see anyone complaining about it, I'm surprised...

Is it possible through API ? Disabling testing workspaces for copilot answers as an example

I had a Power BI dashboard with page size:

Width: 2465 px

Height: 1080 px

And now I just changed the Height to 1100 px.

Now even if I zoom out at 40%/50% view size and publish, the Report in the workspace opens with nearly 80-90% zoom.

Earlier this did not use to happen before I had changed the page size. Whichever view size I used to select and publish, it retained in the report as well. Please let me know if this is a bug or there's a solution for this.

What are some of the best practices in leveraging Claude with PowerBI, either creation or editing builds?

I'm not a Power BI user (I'm a UX/UI designer) but I'm working with someone who knows it and they've said they can't round corners on components. Square edges makes my eyes bleed so - can you round corners in Power BI? Cheers

I’m new to paginated reports. I’m trying to figure out how to build measures in paginated report. Is the only way to write measures first through power bi desktop and then bring it in. I’m doing a direct connection to sql server for bringing in the data.

Meu estudo de BI de cafeteria finalmente finalizado, os filtros deram bastante trabalho rs 😅

Hey everyone,

I kept spending way too much time making page backgrounds for my reports and then fiddling to line up every visual on them. So I built myself a small tool to do it.

You design the background (header, menu, KPI cards, colours, your logo…), and it gives you the PNG, the exact position of each visual to type into Power BI, and a matching theme file.

It's free, no account needed

(I strongly recommend using a computer to view the website)

https://bicreation.fr/en/

Sharing it here in case it's useful to some of you. If you give it a try, I'd love to hear whether it helped, or what you'd change 🙂

Saludos.
He estado trabajando en Power BI en el área comercial de la empresa donde trabajo.
Desde hace un año estoy trabajando con el programa y me he familiarizado con todo el entorno de trabajo, lo cual me ha ayudado mucho a generar informes desde cero y más ahora con la implementación de Claude para el desarrollo de informes.

Desde que hemos optado por implementar Claude al desarrollo de diseños y mejora de modelos semánticos hemos sacado adelante muchos informes y a mejorado nuestra productividad.

El problema que tengo ahora es, ¿debo temer por mi puesto de trabajo? claro que yo soy el que lo desarrolla y maneja tanto power bi como Fabric, pero estoy dudando de mi estancia en el puesto.

Quisiera ayuda o consejos de quienes han pasado de un puesto como desarrollador a algo más, o qué han optado por hacer en su experiencia para aprovechar estas herramientas como Claude para sobresalir en su puesto.

Les agradecería mucho por sus comentarios.

Hey guys, would really appreciate it if anyone could help me with this 😶😶

They are a small company but healthy margins. Agricultural, not sure how much data they have but they’re in a niche that depending on how on it they are it could be a fair bit, outside of financial.

Questions that I’m thinking of asking is for a potentially small amount of data (relatively speaking) why is Microsoft fabric their choice.

I have lots of experience in DAX, power query, data modelling and dashboards - best to come with examples?

Done day long courses in power apps, automate and data verse but it’s been a while. For my main role of the past 2 years with power BI I was self taught and became quite good. That all started with a dashboard in a day course. Could I make a connection?

Good excel skills, but definitely stronger in power Bi.

Got good examples of automating workloads, from Microsoft lists for data collection to automating flows into power BI.

Done Fabric with SQL but azure is broad and have done some parts but not a for a while or for a very long time.

Haven’t really touched APIs but worked with them. Normally got a tech lead to lead that. Any tips?

Done a bit of copilot studio, again not much and not in a while.

Lots of collaboration with senior leaders and influencing strategy.

Any questions that are general, or areas that I mentioned above would be really appreciated. Thanks!

I’ve had a situation a few times now where I’m asked to go to internal IT and database folks to provide me with data, but they struggle to understand what I need, why I need it and the format that I ask for (star schema ready).

Guess it’s a pretty well trodden path that there is a mindset shift from operational modelling for transactions and things like that over to facts and dimensions for star schemas. But I’m finding when I try to explain this it never lands well and takes a lot of back and forth before this come across. Not least because in those kind of roles they tend to be have a whole load of other stuff to worry about without thinking of commercial BI reporting. Fully conscious that a lot of this is probably my weakness in understanding their perspectives and communicating my needs.

So I guess I’m asking for advice on a few things here:

Any strategies for how to explain what I need in a way that will be clearer for IT/DB types?

How can someone like me (a developer more from the commercial / business side) work better with people like this?

What do I need to understand better about their roles which would help me understand why this is a challenge?

Just started a new role and I've been tasked with moving all our company's Tableau reports into Power BI.

Looking at our current dashboards, it seems like everything has to be rebuilt from scratch—data models, calculated fields, visuals, etc.

For anyone who has gone through this: how long did your migration take? Also, does anyone use ChatGPT/Claude to help speed up translating Tableau calculated fields/LODs to DAX, or is it better to just write DAX manually from scratch?

Appreciate any advice on what to expect.

I've made some updates since last year and I stopped giving a crap about cable management.

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u/shan_gsd did you make this sick looking Fabric App?

Hi all, we've written a blog post treating CI/CD as a ladder you can climb, starting as simple as getting your PBIX files in SharePoint. I think as AI agents become more common, as way to rollback small changes becomes very important.

Here are the key takeaways:

• CI/CD is for everyone: Even if you aren’t a professional programmer, incremental improvements in process can reduce defects and frustration. CI/CD also helps reduce messes made by AI Agents.
• Start by making changes smaller: Use PBIP, TMDL, and very basic Git use to make your changes smaller and more manageable. This makes it easier to revert changes and identify the root cause of breaking changes.
• Separate dev, test, and prod: Different environments allow you to test and identify issues earlier. Additionally, different environments can have different levels of quality enforcement and strictness.
• Add automation: A key part of CI/CD is automated tests and quality checks. The safer it is to make changes, the faster you can deliver new features and the less painful it is to push small incremental work to production.

If you're the gateway admin in a big tenant, you know the drill. A service account password changes, and you open every connection that uses it, one by one. Someone leaves, and you hunt down every connection and gateway they had access to.

So I built GatewayLens, a free, open-source console (MIT) for on-premises and VNet gateways:

• Credentials - filter the connections by the account, type the new password once, update. Each connection is tested afterwards.
• Access - grant or remove access in bulk, and hand a leaver's roles to their successor without leaving any connection without an owner.
• Find - filter by connection string, by who has access, or by the account in the credentials.
• Monitoring - a wall of every cluster and member, with an alert in Teams when a member goes down.
• Cleanup - what hasn't been used for months, before a cluster hits the 1,000 data source limit, with a report of who owns it.
• Audit - who can use what, in one CSV.

It signs in as you (with Az.Accounts), so it can only do what you can already do in the portal. Every change asks first and is recorded. There's a demo with a fictional company, if you'd like to click around without signing in.

GitHub: https://github.com/lukas-novacek/GatewayLens

One thing worth knowing even if you never use it: if you update credentials through the documented REST API, the portal stops showing the username afterwards. GatewayLens updates them the way the portal does, so the username stays.

What's missing for you - which gateway task eats most of your time?