SPEAKER 1: Hello, Power BI community.
Welcome to the Power BI, March 2023 Update.
Got a lot of exciting features for you this month.
We're going to be highlighting a few of them
in reporting and service.
You want to hear all about
the other features that were released this month.
Find out more information on our demos,
technical documentation, that thing.
You can find a link to the Power BI blog post
in the description for this video.
Let's get started. First up is on object interaction.
This new feature allows you to right-click
on a visual to access the format pane,
Roseanne will walk you through a quick demo.
SPEAKER 2: I'll begin
by creating a visual.
As I add data to this visual,
you'll notice that the visual type
automatically updates based on
the data that I'm working with.
I can use the Build menu to quickly swap
out the data that I've already added to the visual.
I can also choose to change the visual type that's being
suggested to me by using the full visualizations gallery.
When I explicitly choose a different visual type,
it turns off the suggestions so that I
can now see all of the field wells expanded.
Once I'm all set with the data that's in my Visual,
I can go ahead and move on to Formatting.
Now I'm using the Add button to quickly
add a few chart elements to my line chart.
You'll notice here when I add the trend line is also
just another chart element that I can add to my Visual.
Now remember the existing hovering click behavior
for a visual is to show
a tooltip and cross highlighting and cross-filtering.
But once I double-click on the visual,
I now enter format mode,
which automatically opens a format pane for me
and changes the visual container to be blue,
so that I now can see
sub selections instead on hover and click.
I'm going to make a few changes here,
such as changing this line color.
Look, Power BI thinks I'm trying to click on the marker.
Let me go ahead and flip that
to the line and change the color.
Now I want to edit my title,
so I double-click and go ahead and type in my new title.
I exit the direct text edit mode
to be able to continue formatting my titles,
such as adding a background color,
adding a different text color and aligning.
There you go. I was able to create,
edit and format that visual a lot quicker
on object that I would have been able to
do using the panes as before.
SPEAKER 1: As a reminder,
this new features in
public preview and must be turned
on in the Options and Settings pane.
Next step are updates to the way you
can apply slicers in your reports.
The Apply All Slicers button is
a new feature that allows you to make
slicer selections and have the report visuals
only update once you've finished
making all slicer selections.
You can also add in
the clear all slicers button
to easily remove any selected slicers.
Let's look at Zoe's demo to see it in action.
SPEAKER 3: When we release the public
preview of the optimized
riven with past visuals for authoring reports.
Feedback we received was for a way to
allow your report consumers to
make slices selections and had to report
visuals only update when they're finished.
The weight is now over.
We're happy to announce
the availability of the "Apply all Slices" button.
When the apply all slices button is on your report page,
you can make multiple selections across
all the slices on your report page
and then simply apply them when you're done.
Each slicer will indicate that it has a pending change.
Then when you're ready, you can click the
"Apply All Slices" button to apply them.
Another popular request was to have
a way to clear out your slices selections at once.
We added also the Clear All Slices button.
When you click on that, all the slices selections
are cleared and applied at once.
You can add in as many of these buttons as you like.
You can add the Apply All Slices button
from the optimized ribbon.
Or you can go to Insert button at
either the Apply All Slices
or the Clear All Slicers button,
or on any existing button,
you can change the action to be applied all or clear all.
Now in your report,
if you have hidden the Apply all slicers button,
like I have this bookmark
here where I've hidden the Apply all slices button.
Now your report slicers will just act like before,
so they will instantly apply as you make selections.
Finally, because the apply
all sizes button is a better query reduction experience,
the optimization presets is no longer going to add
the single Apply button for
slicers when you choose the Query Reduction.
Instead, it's going to
recommend the Apply all slices button,
but it will not add it for you.
When you go to the Query Reduction options,
you will see we are also recommending
the apply all slicers button.
But you can still use
the single Apply button on slices if you choose to.
Any reports that are already using
them will still continue to work just as they did before.
SPEAKER 1: Let's look at multiple audiences.
With multiple audiences.
The Power BI app,
author can great multiple audience groups within
the same app and
design different permissions for each group.
Micar will show you in a demo of this feature.
SPEAKER 4: In this release,
we are announcing that the Power BI app
multiple audiences feature is now generally available.
With this new update,
the multiple audience feature is
now supported by Power BI mobile.
In Power BI mobile,
as in service,
app consumers can only view the content artifacts
based on the access permissions
for the respective audience groups.
Users who have access to
multiple audience groups will
see them in the mobile app navigation tree.
By default, users with see
all content that they have permission to view,
but they have the option to
change and select a particular audience view.
This can be done by tapping on
"Change" and then "Selecting" the desired audience,
which will display the available artifact
for that particular group.
It is also possible to browse
all different audiences using the app's content list.
The audience group will be available
in tabs with their relevant items.
SPEAKER 1: Next, let's cover
e-mail subscriptions for scorecards.
Subscriptions allow you to receive e-mail notifications
and stay up-to-date on
the most important data for you and your team.
Ansi will demo this for you.
SPEAKER 5: Metrics subscriptions
enable you to receive
e-mail notifications and stay up-to-date
on the scorecards that matter most to you and your team.
To set up a subscription select
the Subscribe button in the ribbon,
then select Add New subscription
in the pane on the right side.
Note that you can subscribe to
scorecards if you have pro or
PPU license or if the scorecard
is an a workspace backed by premium capacity.
Enter the details about the subscriptions,
such as the name for the subscription,
the subject for the e-mail,
an optional message for the e-mail.
Select the frequency on
how often you want to receive the e-mail,
such as hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly.
Select a scheduled time for the e-mails,
and specify the time zone.
Then select a start date and
optionally an end date for these e-mails.
You can include a link to
the scorecard in the e-mail and give
recipients permission to view
the scorecard using this checkboxes.
Finally, select, Save and close.
After saving, you can edit the subscription,
turn it on and off,
or delete the subscription using the same pane.
You can see all the subscriptions that is
set on this scorecard and this pane.
You can see all the subscriptions in
that particular workspace by selecting,
Manage All Subscriptions at the bottom corner.
Recipients will receive an e-mail at a set time
from Power BI with a table
that contains the scorecard data,
such as the metrics,
names, status, values, and due date.
SPEAKER 1: Finally, let's
take a look at Storytelling.
We're pleased to announce that storytelling and
Power BI is now generally available.
This integration enables users to easily include
interactive Power BI visuals
in the PowerPoint presentation's.
Let's turn it over to Maya for a quick demonstration.
SPEAKER 6: We are happy to announce
the general availability
of Power BI Storytelling at info PowerPoint.
Power BI Storytelling at
info PowerPoint helps you add data and
insights to your presentations to drive
data-driven conversations and decision-making.
To add Power BI data to a slide,
you can use this button in PowerPoint.
Or if you do not have
the button in your PowerPoint version,
you can go to the Office,
add install and get it from there.
Just search for Microsoft Power BI.
Those of you who are already familiar with the add in,
probably notice the new button at the bottom here.
We added this to let you know
what new features are added to the Add in.
Clicking on the Learn More will open
a features learning page to
tell you more about the new feature.
You will never miss any new capability that
can help you make stunning data-driven presentations.
After you add the Add in to your slide,
you need a URL from Power BI.
You can get an URL to
a report page or to a specific visual.
The ability to embed
only a visual and not an entire report page is new.
Let me show you how to do it.
By using the Ellipses menu on a
visual or the right-click menu,
I choose to share this visual.
Then I can either select Copy link to selection
or open in PowerPoint
and then copy the link generated for me.
Now that I have the URL I need,
I go back to the slide.
Here, I post the link to the Add-in to load my data.
Now that my data is loaded,
you can see that it is up to date, live and interactive.
At the footer, there is the information about my data,
a link to open the Visual Order report in
the browser and actions that I can perform on my data.
I can update the filter to make sure I
see the data I need for this presentation.
Then to hide the filter pane completely so
my audience will be able to focus on the content itself.
I will resize the add-in to
make room for some texts I want
to add to this slide to explain the data I am presenting,
helping me to point my audience
to the data that requires their attention.
But instead of me typing all those explanations manually,
I now have a new feature to help me be more productive.
The new data insights action,
which is powered by
Power BI Smart Narrative engine
generates data insights for me.
I can then add those insights to my slides or
copy them to my clipboard
and use it whenever I need them.
Power BI Storytelling Add-in is now generally available.
That means that it is also available for users
and organizations using national Clouds.
But since Office Add-in store is
not accessible from these Clouds,
administrators need first to get
the add in from Power BI Download Center,
and then to use M365 Admin Center and
centralize deployment in order
to deploy the Add-in to their users.
You can read more about
centralized deployment in Office documentations.
SPEAKER 1: Well, that wraps up
our feature highlights for this month.
Tell us in the comments,
what was your favorite feature?
Was there another feature of this month that you
think should have made the spotlight instead?
Tell us in the comments.
We would love to hear about it.
Thanks for watching and we'll catch you on the next one.