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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.
Many people consider becoming a Power BI freelancer or consultant, but they often have the wrong focus. Consulting requires placing the customer first and understanding their needs. In this discussion we’ll cover all of the pieces involved with becoming a Power BI consultant. We’ll also demo some custom GPTs designed for practicing requirements gathering.
Eugene Meidinger works as an independent BI consultant and Pluralsight author, specializing in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. He has been working with data for over 10 years and speaks regularly at user groups and conferences. He is also Microsoft MVP.
Video by: Reid Havens
Learn how to combine Bookmarks with Field Parameters to give users the option for one-click hierarchy configurations but also custom hierarchy level ordering for advanced configurations. Tune in to learn more!
Translating a model metadata does almost nothing in the direction of translating a real report. Translating the data is necessary, and you need to be able to translate titles and display names, even those coming from field parameters. Different strategies are needed to translate the different bits of the model and bring it back to the report so that with a single click everything changes the language. It's a lot of work.
Bernat is an enthusiast Power BI developer from Barcelona, part-owner of Esbrina and Data Platform MVP since 2022. He blogs mostly about calculation groups and Tabular Editor C# Scripting, but also about challenges he has found as a consultant. One of his latest challenges has been making a Japanese-only report turn into an English-Japanese report. Other recent highlights include modifying the report layer with a c# script or integrating Visual Studio and VS code with Tabular Editor to leverage GitHub Copilot to author C# Scripts.
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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.