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24.08.2023

Power BI: Innovations in August 2023

Microsoft's Power BI is an impressive business intelligence solution that allows you to link data from multiple sources, analyze it comprehensively and visualize it in an engaging way. Thanks to Power BI, you can create interactive dashboards and reports that provide valuable insights for your business decisions.

In August 2023, Microsoft announced some exciting new features and enhancements for Power BI, which we would like to share with you in here.

New layout switcher

For example, new buttons have been added to quickly switch between web and mobile layouts during report development. The new switcher buttons can be found at the bottom of the screen, right next to the page navigator.

The new toggle buttons can be found at the bottom of the screen, right next to the page navigator

On-Object Interaction (Preview) - Updates

The new On-Object Interaction feature was previewed back in March. In the August version the following functions were added:

Resizing and positioning in the object menus.
Added the ability to resize object menus horizontally, which is especially helpful when working with long field names. The positioning of the menus on the object has also been optimized to make better use of the workspace. Previously, when a visual element was at the bottom of the canvas, the object menu was very small and required scrolling to see and use the field fields. Now, the On-Object menu moves up and expands into the canvas to bring the field wells into view without having to scroll.

Object-based format subselections are now supported in Spotlight and Focus modes
When highlighting a visual element or expanding the visual element in focus mode, object-based formatting can now be used to select and format styles. In focus mode, it can be difficult to tell when you have switched to format mode using only the subtle border. To address this issue, a button has been added to the header that better indicates when you are in format mode and how to exit format mode while remaining in focus mode.

For more information on the new features, visit Microsoft's Power BI blog and watch this video: