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Video by: Reid Havens
Field parameters in Power BI offer powerful flexibility when using them for custom visual hierarchies. However, certain columns shouldn’t be used alone, especially when they’re part of a hierarchy or grouped relationship. In this video, I demonstrate how to create a field parameter setup that ensures key columns are always selected together. This approach avoids misleading rollups and duplicated values in matrix visuals, keeping your reports accurate and intuitive.
Ever feel like Power BI is throwing you into a maze of connections and scattered reports? Fear not! In this fun and interactive session, we’ll dive into Power BI's Developer Mode to demystify the process of updating connections on your models and seamlessly merging two reports into one masterpiece. No more data juggling or report chaos—just a smooth path to Power BI harmony! Whether you're a data wrangler or a curious BI enthusiast, this session will have you laughing, learning, and connecting all the right dots.
Miguel Félix is a Lead BI Architect, with a background in finance with experience in several different areas like banking, events, manufacturing, wholesale, services. Data analysis was always a part of his daily tasks and the change from Excel to Power BI was a step in the right direction allowing him to change to consulting in BI in 2021. The engagement with the community was also a natural and he is a Super User in the Fabric community since the start of the program back in 2018 that allowed him to achieve a Microsoft MVP for the first time in 2019, after that came the blog and the presentations about everything related with Power BI and Fabric.
Video by: Reid Havens
Learn about an updated technique I applied after getting inspiration from another YouTube video showing this original technique. This approach achieves the result of a dynamic date axis that scales to your filtered date range, but with less model additions than the original approach. But while still using Field Parameters and some clever DAX. Tune in to learn more!
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Reid Havens’ early love affair with analytics has, over the past decade, turned into an evolution into data visualization and report design in Power BI.
Since then Reid has been writing articles and creating YouTube videos to share the word of BI, helping to inspire the next generation of Business Intelligence enthusiasts.
