The Power BI Desktop team is back at it with another monthly update, this one was a little quiet for my liking but there are few takeaways including some new default themes and better conditional formatting in visuals.
Here’s the complete list of September updates:
Reporting
- Color and text classes in themes
- New default themes
- Personalized visualization pane improvements (preview)
- Unpin default visuals
- About info for visuals
Analytics
- Custom format strings
- Conditional formatting for more visual formatting options
- Alt text
- Border color
- Gauge colors
- Drill through discoverability improvement
- New DAX expressions: REMOVEFILTERS and CONVERT
Visualizations
- PowerApps visual now generally available
Data connectivity
- PostgreSQL connector enhancements:
- Support for folding over Native Database queries
- DirectQuery support generally available
Data preparation
- Copy to clipboard from data profiling
Template apps
- Google Analytics report
Other
- Performance improvements for multi-dimensional models
- Query performance improvements for DirectQuery models
For a summary of the major updates, you can watch the following video:
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