Microsoft Power BI - October Updated Released.

Hi All,

Today Microsoft Have Released the Update for October with 23 Significant enhancements.

Let's see what are the Updates and from where we can download the Updated Product.

For Downloading Latest Product Click here.

With Latest Update you can import Custom Visualization in Power BI Desktop.

For Downloading Custom Visualization Click here.

If you are a Developer and want to Create and Submit the Custom Visualization for Power BI, you can submit that using the above link.



Summary of Updates Released on October Update - 

Report Authoring:

Custom Visualizations

Insert Visual from the Ribbon

Improved Default Sorting

Tooltips & Data Labels on Funnel Charts

Slicer Improvements:

Ability to Sort items.

Ability to change Font Size.

Additional Formatting Options for Gauges.

Data Point Label layout improvements

KPI Consumption (Preview Feature)

Data Connectivity:

Azure Document DB connector

Mailchimp connector

DirectQuery for SQL Server and Azure SQL Database (Preview Feature)

Data Transformations:

Filter by “not earliest/latest date”

Filter by “is in previous N minutes/hours/seconds”

Copy/Paste Queries between Power BI Desktop and Excel

Support for Special Characters in Split Column

Refresh Previews in Merge Queries dialog

Monospaced font for Query Editor Preview

Other Improvements:

Refresh Single Table (vs. All) from Report & Data Views

Option to enable Preview features

In-Product Ratings experience

Data Modeling:

Semi-Select support for DAX formulas in Data view

For Detailed Explanation of all these features watch video.

Regards,
Saurav Dhyani
saurav-nav.blogspot.com