Power BI Ideas
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Power BI Lite License
Power BI should have a Lite License for people that only consume dashboards or reports every now and then. This is for people that don't create reports but need to see the dashboards and may need to use the "report level" to be able to export output to PowerPoint (since you can't export the dashboard to PowerPoint but can only do it at Report level).
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Show email address or user name in usage metrics for dashboards and reports
In the usage metrics for dashboards and reports, show the names and/or email addresses of the end users.
FYI: The current usage metrics feature is documented here:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-usage-metrics/311 votes -
Calculated measures when live connected to MDX cubes
In May 2017 Power BI Desktop started supporting creation of DAX measures when working in live connect mode to an external SSAS model: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-may-feature-summary/
Vote on this idea if you want support for calculated measures against multidimensional models too.
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Conditional formatting (cell highligh, font, etc) when comparing multiple fields
PowerBI needs to have the ability to offer conditional formatting of based on the comparison of 2 or more metrics. For example if metric A = metric B then change the font and highlight color of the cell to red.
If metric A > metric B and metric A < metric C then change the font and highlight color of the cell to green.
This should be unlimited for how many colors can be used. Other BI tools offer this feature.
Note that this is different than what PowerBI currently calls ‘conditional formatting’282 votes -
Create calculated columns when using SSAS live connect
In May 2017 Power BI Desktop started supporting creation of DAX measures when working in live connect mode to an external SSAS model: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-may-feature-summary/
Vote on this idea if you want support for calculated columns in this mode as well!
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Power BI Premium needs lower pricing tiers
You've made a odd choice for the name but oh well.
Power BI Premium is a great idea but lower specs to hit a lower price point is necessary for SME clients.
A clearer product name might have been Power BI Enterprise with standard and premium pricing tiers.
The v1 pricing for Power BI Embedded was an equivalent of charging for a sql database at a flat rate per kb of IO.
Fixed capacity for a fixed price takes away all the uncertainty and complexity of the current model.
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Click on SEVERAL visuals to slice
What is really missing in Interactions is one simple feature:
The ability to click on SEVERAL visuals to slice the report. Currently the users only can click one. The click on another visual "removes" previous selection, so the users loose their "data exploration thought flow"...
For instance, I have two bar charts (Product and Country) and one table. I would like to click on "Bicycles", then click on "USA" so the table shows only sales of Bicycles in USA.
Currently, when I click "USA", my previous "Bicycles" selection is removed.
Please add this option to keep all the selections from…218 votes -
Dynamic Date Slicer (improve relative date slicer)
This is a repost of my idea that was closed as completed, but the 'relative date slicer doesn't allow any of the described request hence my idea is not implemented....
The new date slicer is awesome, but it would be so nice if you could set a dynamic date selection instead of a static. With a static filter the user will always have to set the dates before the saved report makes sense - especially as the report gets older.
Dynamic options could be
YTD, QTD, MTD, WTD, Today, This Year, This Quarter, This Month, This Week and so on.…
188 votesThe relative date slicer (a Preview feature as of June ‘17) gets us close to this with the ’This Month’ or ‘This Year’ settings. That is a dynamic date selection that updates based on the current system date. We plan to add a ‘YTD’/‘MTD’ option to specifically select a range from the start of the month/year up to today, hopefully that’ll address the remaining requirements!
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clustering arcgis
I need to make ArcGIS maps Clustering theme to count the number of subscribers in each geographical area by geo coordinates inside it's bubbles.
For example,
I have table with this kind of data:
LATITUDE LONGITUDE Subscribers count
43.25667 76.92861 100
43.25668 76.92868 200
As I can see, ArcGIS clustering theme counts only quantity of geo coordinates from the source table inside the bubbles, but does not count quantity of subscribers in each bubble. I would like there be possibility to make ArcGIS to count quantity of subscribers in each bubble and make quantity to be summarized in bubbles when…47 votes -
Support dashboards in Power BI Report Server
Please add support for Power BI Dashboards to Power BI Report Server.
91 votesThanks for sharing this idea! As its name suggests, Power BI Report Server focuses on Power BI reports (the artifacts you create in Power BI Desktop). Nonetheless, we’re always interested in hearing your feedback, so if you’d like to see the Power BI service’s “dashboards” feature in Power BI Report Server, vote here. Even better, post a comment and share a little more about why. Looking forward to the discussion!
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Ability to mark some pages as "Do not publish" in Power BI Desktop
In Power BI Desktop it should be posible, before publishing the file to the service, to mark some pages as "do not publish" or hide them for publishing. This way we can have some safe hidden place to draft new ideas or a repository of charts to copy to the pages that will actually be published.
The place to put this functionality could be the contextual menu that appears when right clicking the page name (now it shows "Duplicate Page" and "Rename Page". New option could be "Do not Publish")228 votes -
FREE license for sharing
FREE license for sharing!
Since June this has been removed.
Microsoft communicates that it will be easier and better for users.
Well... more expensive for sure and lots of users complain about login, although I do user control and give them access to my dashboard/report.I think to have it more user friendly again, have the sharing turned on for free.
Developers will have to pay to start sharing.
Also it shouldn't be possible for free users to re-share.And then the price of 10,- per month would be acceptable if this increases.
I would even understand a maximum of…50 votes -
identify power bi pro content
Whenever Power BI warns that "this dashboard has Power BI Pro content", provide a link to describe specifically what Pro content is included in the dashboard. For example, is it pro content because it's in a group workspace, or is it pro content because it's a direct query connection to an on-premise data source, etc.
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Subscribe *others* to emails of reports
Extend the email subscription feature, currently in public preview, to enable subscribing *others* to email snapshots of reports.
More information about the existing email subscriptions feature can be found here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-email-subscriptions-in-power-bi-stay-informed-when-it-matters/preview/
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let maps recognize data category hierarchy automatically
Currently maps don't seem to recognize the relationship between a country and a city, even if both columns have been set up with the corresponding data category in the model.
In a table with cities as "cities" and country as "country" in the data model, the cities are plotted in arbitrary countries instead of the country specified in the column for country.
Please let Power BI maps acknowledge the hierarchy of existing typed data categories and plot depending data points only in relation to their parent category context.
You may not feel the pain if you're in the US. I…
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Advanced Gantt Chart
The current Gantt Chart in the Custom Visuals Office Store is a step in the right direction, but unfortunately it is pretty much useless in it's current state.
Please add an Advanced Gantt Chart for proper project management (multiple projects with multiple activities).
- Add Milestones on top of the Activity Bars based on a data column (and preferably multiple types of Milestone icons)
- Ability to chose size of the bars (the ones we have now are huge)
- Ability to expand/collapse a group of Activities (preferably grouped by project or category)
- Let report viewers decide the scale…
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Enable specific security groups setting for 'Publish to web'
The "Publish to web" setting for portal administrators currently has the options of 'Enabled' or 'Disabled'. It would be beneficial to have this manageable in the same way as content packs so certain security (AAD) groups could be set as publishers.
84 votesThanks for all of your votes. We’ve started work on this feature. It’s not available yet (so we’re not marking it as completed), but will update you all when it is available.
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Dynamic Parameters for What if analysis
[Will Thompson] I've just merged a couple of very close scenarios, which all have similar great ideas! Something we're considering for the future, so I'm keen to hear your feedback on this. I like this core scenario of a numeric value that is bound to a slider control, and can then be used as part of some expression.
- In a sales report, I can adjust a '% increase' slider to see what impact a small change in revenue might have had on my sales.
- In a mortgage calculator, I can change the % rate, borrowed amount and term to see projected…1,222 votesYou may have seen in the Data Insights Summit that we’re working on bringing this to Power BI Desktop soon! You’ll be able to create an input table and bind it to a slicer that allows users to select a value that is used in a DAX formula.
Thanks for your support!
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Increase Export Data Limits
In late 2016, Power BI improved our export data options to allow exporting up to 150,000 rows to Excel from a visual on a Power BI dashboard for Pro users. If you require higher limits, please vote on this idea. If you have more specific requirements, please leave them in the comments.
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Printing custom visualizations
It would be helpful to be able to print custom visualizations to PowerPoint. Currently there is just a message saying that the visualizations are not currently supported. Even allowing the visuals to be frozen in a picture format would be acceptable. Thanks.
455 votesWe started the process of supporting custom visuals for Export to PowerPoint. you can expect some of the more popular custom visuals to be supported soon.
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