Episode 162: Power BI September 2020 Feature Summary

This is episode 162 recorded on October 2, 2020 where John & Jason talk about a few changes to the  monthly update announcements and go through the announcement for September.

Show Notes

Analytics

• Smart narratives (preview)
• Q&A now supports arithmetic operations

Reporting

• Data point rectangle select for additional charts
• Added general visual option to maintain layer order 
• Search for a workspace during publish
• Total labels for stacked visuals
• Mobile authoring enhancements
  • 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)
• Share from Power BI using your favorite apps (iOS and Android)
• Pinch and zoom is now available in all report views – on both phones and tablets (iOS and Android)
• Auto play a slideshow on startup (Windows)

Service

• New capabilities in lineage view
  • Search within lineage view
  • Data source impact analysis
• Excel inherits the Power BI dataset’s sensitivity label when using a PivotTable connection
• Analyze in Excel provides Excel file instead of .ODC
• Deployment pipelines is now generally available

Modeling

• Enhanced Dataset Metadata is now generally available
• Performance improvements to aggregation expressions involving columns of currency data type

Data connectivity

• CDS connector (preview)
• Azure Databricks
• MariaDB
• Hexagon PPM Smart API
• Other data connectivity updates

Community

• Spanish language community forum is now available
• Data Stories Gallery theme for October

Visualizations

• Collage by CloudScope
• Advanced Trellis / Small Multiples Chart by xViz
• Waterfall Chart by xViz
• Editor’s picks

Template Apps

• Multichannel Attribution Dashboard
• Workplace Analytics Dashboard