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Power of Business Intelligence

Blog by Andrzej Leszkiewicz. Power BI Developer and Consultant.

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    • IBCS in Power BI (native visuals)
    • Bad and good charts in Power BI
    • Storytelling with data in Power BI
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Power of Business Intelligence

Power of Business Intelligence

Blog by Andrzej Leszkiewicz. Power BI Developer and Consultant.

  • Better DataViz
    • Posts about IBCS
    • IBCS in Power BI (native visuals)
    • Bad and good charts in Power BI
    • Storytelling with data in Power BI
  • Deneb and Vega ⭐
    • Posts about Deneb and Vega
    • Deneb and Vega overview
    • Deneb Vega templates
    • Custom Vega visualizations
    • Deneb & Vega help
  • PowerofBI.IBCS
  • Power BI Embedded
  • Power BI Reports 📈
  • Books to Read
  • YouTube
  • About

Category: Tricks and Workarounds

Data Visualization DAX Tricks and Workarounds

The Real Power of the New Slicers

Andrzej Leszkiewicz February 14, 2026

The Real Power of the New Slicers. Turn Your Slicers into Charts. Power BI and Fabric Summit 2026. February 24, 2026, online (day 2, virtual … Read More

AI Tricks and Workarounds

Testing an MCP server

Andrzej Leszkiewicz February 14, 2026

This post was created by typing: “Connect to my website. Make a new post: ‘Testing an MCP server’ This post was created by typing: “Connect … Read More

Top N + Others Without Any Changes in the Data Model
Data Visualization DAX Tricks and Workarounds

Top N + Others Without Any Changes in the Data Model

Andrzej Leszkiewicz December 2, 2025

To show Top N records and all other records grouped into “Others” in Power BI, we used to create a new table in the data … Read More

Responsive SVG Charts in Power BI Core Visuals
Data Visualization IBCS Tricks and Workarounds

Responsive SVG Charts in Power BI Core Visuals

Andrzej Leszkiewicz November 24, 2025

SVG image generated by a DAX measure allows the creation of custom charts embedded into Power BI core visuals (including slicers): table, matrix, new card, … Read More

Data Preparation Fabric Tricks and Workarounds

Fabric Deployment Pipeline Rule to set Data Pipeline Parameters

Andrzej Leszkiewicz August 9, 2025

+ Deployment Stage Conditional Formatting in Power BI Reports I probably should give the Fabric Variable libraries (preview) a try. But a preview is essentially … Read More

WoW 2025 Week 24 | Power BI Core Slicers Box Plot
Data Visualization Data Visualization Examples Tricks and Workarounds

WoW 2025 Week 24 | Power BI Core Slicers Box Plot

Andrzej Leszkiewicz June 11, 2025

I don’t often join Workout Wednesday, but when I do, I prefer unconventional solutions. This week, WoW is about PBI Core Visuals, but slicers are … Read More

Data Visualization Data Visualization Examples Tricks and Workarounds

Power BI – Date Slicer with Default Selection

Andrzej Leszkiewicz June 5, 2025

Magic of the new Power BI Button Slicer: the current calendar month is always selected by default. In the video, I change the system date, … Read More

Power BI Report Refresh Performance Analyzer
Performance Tricks and Workarounds

Power BI Report Refresh Performance Analyzer

Andrzej Leszkiewicz June 29, 2024

To understand why a Power BI report refresh takes too much time, we can use SQL Server Profiler. SQL Server Profiler can be connected to … Read More

Pseudo Row Level Security (RLS) for Publish to Web Power BI Reports
Data Modeling Sharing and Embedding Tricks and Workarounds

Pseudo Row Level Security (RLS) for Publish to Web Power BI Reports

Andrzej Leszkiewicz May 20, 2024

This post is an update for What is new? One of the users has found a critical issue in the old version of the report: … Read More

DenebPublish to web
Update Power BI Dataset (Semantic Model) More Than 8 Times a Day (Without Premium)
Licensing REST API Tricks and Workarounds

Update Power BI Dataset (Semantic Model) More Than 8 Times a Day (Without Premium)

Andrzej Leszkiewicz May 17, 2024

It’s not possible to refresh a dataset more than 8 times a day (shared capacity). However, it is possible to have a report with data … Read More

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