November 2023 Updates for Power BI

There are some big breakthroughs in Fabric and Copilot in Power BI this month.  But that’s not all: there is the usual volume of updates alongside these key announcements too, including ‘DAX Query view’, semantic model scale-out and Advanced Filtering for Paginated Reports. 

The full list is as follows:

Reporting

• Button slicer in Preview
• Reference labels in Preview
• Enhance your Q&A visual with suggested synonyms from Copilot in Preview
• On-object Interaction updates:
  •  ‘Always open in new pane’ setting
  • Resizing the data flyout
  • Table’s ‘Add’ button returns
  • New On-object default coming soon
•  Azure Maps visual now aggregates multiple data points at the same location
• Narrative visual with Copilot in Preview

Modelling

• Datasets renamed to semantic models
• DAX query view to write and run DAX queries on your model in Preview
• Edit your data model in the Power BI Service – updates:
  • Mark as a date table
  • Rename and delete tables and columns

Data connectivity

•  Azure Resource Graph (new connector)
• Profisee (connector update)
• Bloomberg Enterprise Data and Analytics (connector update)
• Dremio (connector update)
• Celonis (connector update)

Service

• Explore in Preview
• Copilot for Power BI in Microsoft Fabric in Preview
• OneLake integration for Import-mode semantic models in Preview 
• RLS / OLS security and stored credentials for Direct Lake semantic models in Preview
• Sharable cloud connections for semantic models now Generally Available
• Semantic model scale-out now Generally Available
• Show visuals as tables in Preview
•  Advanced Filtering for paginated reports

Visualisations

• New visuals in AppSource
• Zebra BI Tables 6.6: introducing text columns
• Funnel Chart by Powerviz
• Create interactive timelines with full control

Other

• Enhanced accessibility in paginated reports authored in Report Builder
• Skill up on Fabric with the Microsoft Learn Cloud Skills Challenge
• Dynamic dataset binding for paginated reports.

As always, we'll be detailing these updates in our December newsletter. 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.