Power BI Update – September 2020

This month’s updates include a preview of the Smart narratives visual, which helps you quickly summarize visuals and reports by providing relevant out-of-the-box insights, which are customizable. On the reporting side, several things are added, including the introduction of controls for the z-order of visuals, and searching for a workspace during publish. For modeling, the enhanced dataset metadata that was previously in preview is now generally available. In the service, we introduce new capabilities in the lineage view, updates to analyze in Excel and have made deployment pipelines generally available. #Microsoft #PowerBI

Analytics
Smart narratives (preview) — 00:45
Q&A now supports arithmetic operations — 05:32

Reporting
Data point rectangle select for additional charts — 06:05
Added general visual option to maintain layer order — 06:44
Search for a workspace during publish — 10:14
Total labels for stacked visuals — 10:33
Mobile authoring enhancements — 13:06
Bookmark pane is now available in the Mobile layout view
New options: turn off gridlines and snap to grid.

Mobile
Improved navigation tree (iOS and Android) — 13:39
Share from Power BI using your favorite apps (iOS and Android) — 14:02
Pinch and zoom is now available in all report views – on both phones and tablets (iOS and Android) — 14:17
Auto play a slideshow on startup (Windows) — 14:29

Service
New capabilities in lineage view — 16:31
Search within lineage view
Data source impact analysis
Excel inherits the Power BI dataset’s sensitivity label when using a PivotTable connection — 18:23
Analyze in Excel provides Excel file instead of .ODC — 19:39
Deployment pipelines is now generally available — https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-september-2020-feature-summary/#deployment_pipelines_ga

Modeling
Enhanced Dataset Metadata is now generally available — 19:57
Performance improvements to aggregation expressions involving columns of currency data type — 20:21

Visualizations
Collage by CloudScope — 20:27
Download — https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/power-bi-visuals/WA104381540?tab=Overview
Advanced Trellis / Small Multiples Chart by xViz — https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-september-2020-feature-summary/#Advanced_Trellis_by_xViz
Learn more — https://xviz.com/blogs/advanced-trellis-small-multiples-key-features-power-bi-visual/
Download — https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/power-bi-visuals/WA200001649?tab=Overview
Waterfall Chart by xViz — https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-september-2020-feature-summary/#Waterfall_by_xViz
Learn more — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_8Au1ykl9c
Download — https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/power-bi-visuals/WA200001336?tab=Overview
Editor picks — 21:02
Learn more — https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-september-2020-feature-summary/#Editor_picks

Template Apps
Multichannel Attribution Dashboard — 21:28
Download — https://appsource.microsoft.com/product/power-bi/windsorgroupgmbh1585043281642.windsorai-attribution
Workspace Analytics Dashboard — https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-september-2020-feature-summary/#Workspace_Analytics_Dashboard
Download — https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-US/product/power-bi/data_maru_5109353.workplace_analytics

Data connectivity
Azure Databricks — 22:30
MariaDB — 22:45
Hexagon PPM Smart API — 23:07
Other data connectivity updates — 23:32

Community
Spanish language community forum is now available — 23:57
Data Stories Gallery theme for October — 24:35

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