April 2024 Updates for Power BI

This month’s updates see line enhancements, supporting folders in workspace, dynamic subscriptions for Power BI and paginated reports, amongst other newbies.

The full list of updates is as follows:

Reporting

• New visual: 100% Stacked Area chart
• Line enhancements
• Enhance Q&A with Copilot-generated linguistic relationships

Service

• Storytelling in PowerPoint: improved image mode in the Power BI add-in for PowerPoint
• Storytelling in PowerPoint: continuous slide show auto refresh
• Storytelling in PowerPoint: auto populating the slide title
• Introducing the Fabric metadata scanning sample app
• Dynamic Subscriptions for Power BI and paginated reports

Mobile

• Supporting Folders in workspace
• New ‘Clear barcode’ action in the report footer
• Open Power BI items in full screen mode

Visualisations

• Financial Reporting Matrix by Profitbase
• Horizon chart by Powerviz
• Drill Down Scatter PRO by ZoomCharts
• Image Gallery
• Horizontal Bar chart
• Trends
• Multi-pane Card 1.1

Analytics

• Introducing Copilot pane in Power BI Desktop in Preview.

As always, we'll be detailing these updates in our May newsletter (together with March’s updates). Please remember we have virtual / online training in Power BI which you can find out more about here.  If you are not already a subscriber, why not sign up at the bottom of any SumProduct web page?  And don't forget to download the latest version of Power BI Desktop here too.