Episode 189: Power BI April 2021 Feature Summary

This is episode 189 recorded on April 21st, 2021 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI April 2021 Feature Summary including Power Automate for Power BI, New & Improved Shapes, Easy Report Sharing options, and the Microsoft Charticulator visual.

Show Notes

Reporting

• Power Automate for Power BI 
• Small multiples: padding controls and combo chart support 
• New and improved shapes
• Invert axis and continuous axis sorting

Modeling

• DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services 
• CROSSFILTER supports many-to-many relationships
• Performance improvements to IF and SWITCH functions

Data connectivity

• New Connector: Bloomberg Data and Analytics
• New Connector: SoftOne BI
• Text/CSV By Example now generally available
• Automatic Table Detection from Excel files now generally available
• Automatic Table Detection from JSON files now generally available

Service

• Easy report sharing via links
• Improving the Create on top of published dataset experience
• New capabilities in Deployment Pipelines
• Enhancements to Sensitivity Labels
  • Sensitivity labels in Power BI embedded now generally available
  • Securing the full data journey from Azure to Office 
  • Admin API to Set and Remove labels in Power BI

Visualizations

• Microsoft Charticulator visual
• New visuals
• Financial Reporting Matrix by Profitbase
• Merged Bar Chart by Nova Silva
• Editor’s picks

Developers

• API v3.6.0 is now available

Other

• Simplifying collection of diagnostic information