Category Archives: Power BI

Here is an Azure Function that’s using Power BI Rest API. Although, it is still no faster than Power BI connector

Earlier this month, I blogged about how “Export to File for Paginated Reports” action seems to be relatively slow (even when compared to doing the export manually from the Power BI Service): https://www.itaintboring.com/power-automate/export-to-file-for-paginated-reports-execution-time/ So, I thought, maybe an alternative could be to write custom code which would be using Power BI Rest API to do… Read More »

Export to File for Paginated Reports execution time

For the last few days, I’ve been trying to figure out one mysterious aspect of “Export to File for Paginated Reports” action, which is that it was always taking just a little more than 30 seconds to complete. Which, even for the simplest static paginated report that would not even connect to a data source,… Read More »

Power BI Paginated Reports ALM

I think Power FX Command designer is going to be the news of the month (or, possibly, of the whole summer): https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-command-designer-with-power-fx-preview/ However, that’s something I’ll need to look at a bit later. In the meantime, there was a more pressing need on the project I’ve been working on, and that’s all about setting up… Read More »

When thinking of an SSRS report in Power Platform, think Power BI Premium

Or, at least, give it a try, since you can get Power BI Premium per User now, and it’s not even that difficult to try it out: If you have missed that notification on your first login, you can still do it from the profile menu: Which will bring you to this: Now what is… Read More »

Taking a crash course on Power BI, part 2

In the previous post, I started to talk about my recent Power BI experiences., but I kind of stopped half way through. There were 3 visualizations on the report, two of them were slicers connected to the date table, and, yet, there was the main visualization which, at that point, was not, yet, filtered by… Read More »

Taking a crash course on Power BI

It’s been a while since I wanted to try using Power BI for something practical. And this is not to say there are no practical applications for Power BI It’s all about me being a Power Platform consultant who is working primarily with model-driven applications, and, every now and then, with Power Automate and Canvas… Read More »

TDS endpoint – getting closer to GA?

Just a few days ago, when I was writing a post about Power BI Paginated Reports, “Dataverse” connection type was still called “Common Data Service(Preview)” there. As of today, in the updated version of the Power BI Report Builder, it’s called “Dataverse”: There is no reference to the preview anymore, but, apparently, it’s still a… Read More »

Power BI Paginated Reports and data security

In the previous post, I looked at some of the features of Power BI paginated reports. What was still unclear is how security works. Turned out it works pretty much as one would expect. Users having no access to the data won’t see that data in the report. Unless the report has NOT been configured… Read More »