(Livestream Replay) Building Multi-language Reports for Power BI - with Ted Pattinson

DESCRIPTION 📄

Power BI has a history which has made it challenging to build reports that support multiple languages. Fortunately, enhancements to Power BI over the last year have reduced this challenge making it more attainable to Power BI content creators. As an example, Power BI added support for the USERCULTURE function which provides the ability to write measures which implement report label translations dynamically. Power BI enhancements to the report designer now provide more flexibility to bind measures with dynamic translations to visuals and shapes so they can be surfaced on report pages. Furthermore, the recent introduction of Field Parameters in Power BI now offers a far more elegant and efficient strategy to implement data translations.

In this Livestream session, Ted Pattison will discuss how to get started with multi-language report development. Attendees will learn about the three different types of translations involved with multi-language report development as well as the techniques used to implement them. Ted will demonstrate using the Translations Builder utility to automate repetitive localization tasks that would take forever to complete manually. This session will provide content creators using Power BI Desktop with a better understanding of how all the pieces fit together and with a path forward for building multi-language reports in Power BI using a strategy that is reliable, predictable and scalable.

GUEST BIO 👤

Ted Pattison worked as an independent trainer and software developer whose community efforts earned him the Microsoft MVP award for 15 years in a row. Ted joined the Power BI Customer Advisory Team (PBICAT) at Microsoft in 2020 where he provides guidance to enterprise customers and ISVs in several areas including developing with Power BI embedding, programming with the Power BI APIs and building multi-language reports.

Ted is also the creator of Power BI Dev Camp (https://www.powerbidevcamp.net) which provides a monthly webinar geared toward professional software developers working with Power BI, Fabric and the Microsoft Data Platform.

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Building Multi-language Reports (Guidance Doc)
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Building Multi-language Reports - Part 2 (YouTube Video)
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Live Sample of Multi-language Report

(Livestream Replay) Connecting API's with Power Query - Not so Low Code? - with Erik Svensen

DESCRIPTION 📄

In this session Erik will demo how you can get data from web api's and how you can ensure that your model can be refreshed in the service.

We will by using real life examples walk through how to connect to different web api's and how different API's have different authentication methods that you will have to understand and master.

We will look at how you can parameterize your queries and only get the data for a specific period or other ways of specifying parameters that the API supports.

In the session you will also learn how to do a POST request to an API.

And YES we will spend a lot of the time in the Power Query Advanced editor.

After the session you should have a good start so that you can connect to the API's that are relevant for you.

GUEST BIO 👤

Erik Svensen is a Microsoft MVP. Erik has been working with the Microsoft BI stack for more than 20 years - starting with out with Excel and Microsoft Query for over 25 years ago. He owns the company CatMan Solution who is now serving over 70+ FMCG suppliers with a Power BI solution that provides the supplier with valuable insights in their performance at store level based on point of sales data provided to them by different retailers. He started the Danish Power BI User group and speaks at conferences and meetups. Another great passion besides Power BI is his collection of Danish contemporary art. And if he finds time he occasionally blogs about Power BI as well.

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(Livestream Replay) Power BI CI/CD, the REST API, and VSCode - with Gerhard Brueckl

DESCRIPTION 📄

Since its release in 2015, Power BI has quickly become one of the major and widest spread reporting tools on the market. It is used for self-service BI, team BI and also enterprise BI solution of which especially the latest has very specific requirements when it comes to managing deployments and releases. We would like to discuss the typical use-cases and problems that you will encounter when trying to use the traditional approaches for CI/CD and release management with Power BI.

GUEST BIO 👤

Gerhard is a data solution architect at Paiqo GmbH in Austria. He has been working with Microsoft Data & BI tools for over 15 years and is still continuously learning. In all those years he was always shared his knowledge with the community in forums, his personal blog or when speaking at conferences or user groups. Over the last years he focused more on big data and cloud processing in Microsoft Azure but always maintained the link to his roots in BI.

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Twitter
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(Livestream Replay) Empower BI Professionals to Do More Using Microsoft Fabric - with Christian Wade

ABSTRACT 📄

As the volume and complexity of data continue to increase, organizations are constantly looking to uncover insights in faster ways. Join us to learn about Power BI’s exciting new announcements that enable data professionals to gather insights at blazing fast speeds with Microsoft Fabric.

GUEST BIO 👤

As Principal Group Product Manager in the Power BI group, Christian manages a team of program managers responsible for enterprise modeling features across Microsoft's BI product portfolio. He drives product strategy, feature prioritization, planning, design, execution, customer engagement and business results by making Power BI, the most successful BI platform on the planet, even better for the biggest enterprise customers.

Christian is also a renowned public speaker and a regular keynote feature in some of Microsoft’s largest events. Known for awesome demos to engage the audience, drive awareness and usage. Consulting experience driving BI, data warehousing and application development projects for enterprise customers dating back to 1999.

Creator of the BISM Normalizer, a diff & merge tool for Analysis Services tabular models.

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Microsoft Fabric
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Data God Page
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