Power BI Community Blog Highlights
Have you visited the Power BI Community blog lately? Along with rapidly growing forums, event listings, and ways to leave feedback, the Community blog is a platform for you to share ideas with your peers, industry experts, and us here at Microsoft.
We want to hear what’s got you thinking about Power BI and Business Intelligence! Blog posts can be anything from opinion pieces on the latest industry trends, to helpful tips and how-tos for your fellow Power BI users, to even “trip reports” from your local User Group meeting or Microsoft event.
To get started, simply message me, @Jessica, with a rough title for your post and a couple of sentences to describe your topic. Together we’ll make sure you can preview how your post will look once it’s done, and set a publication date.
Posts of the Month
Check out these great posts from June and July:
How to use your Office Theme as Power BI Report Theme, by Dominik Petri
Since Power BI Desktop’s March 2017 Update, it is possible to apply a color theme to your entire report. When you apply a so called “Report Theme”, all visuals in your report use the colors from your selected theme. Unfortunately, you can’t just import your Office Theme Colors into Power BI Desktop since they have different structures and filetypes. Therefore, Dominik developed an Excel tool that converts your Office Theme into a Power BI Desktop Theme in 4 simple steps.
Power BI – Overview Infographic, by Gilbert Quevauvilliers
With there being so many changes and updates to Power BI, Gilbert has created an infographic in which it covers all of the vital elements when looking at Power BI Free, Pro, and Premium.
Power BI Custom Connector: Youtube Analytics, by Miguel Escobar
Recently Microsoft made publicly available a preview feature called ‘Custom Connectors’ and Miguel spent 2 weeks, after that announcement, reading the tutorials from Microsoft and creating his own Custom Connector for his Youtube Channel until it was fully documented and in its final stage.