Source: https://powerbi.microsoft.
com/en-ca/blog/power-bi-report-server-january-2023-feature-summary/
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Full list of January Updates:
Report Server
Reporting
Modeling
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Reporting
Power BI Report Server accent color update
Power BI announced the upcoming change in color accent to teal. This
change was made to ensure our product is more accessible for users with
disabilities. The new color improves contrast and increases visibility of the
user interface in Power BI.
Publish .rdl &.pbix files to Power BI from Power BI Report
Server
Another added benefit with this change is the new mobile formatting options
now have access to this setting too! Users can quickly update their mobile
layout slicers to use tile to be more mobile friendly.
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Reporting
You can migrate reports without Report Server downtime or disruption to your
report users. It’s important to understand that you don’t need to remove any
data or reports. You can keep your current environment in place until you’re
ready for it to be retired.
Reverse stack order for stacked column charts
You can now reverse the order in which we render segments in stacked
column and bar charts. This can be particularly helpful to help users match
the category groupings of strictly positive columns against vertically aligned
legends.
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Reporting
Query performance improvements
Indexing imported string columns on-the-fly
Build the index when the first query that requests a substring search on the column
is executed. The index is built for text columns that contain ASCII characters only.
Once the index is built, substring search becomes instant. Note that the index is not
persisted between restarts of Power BI Desktop.
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Reporting
Pushing Top N filter to DirectQuery sources
When using the TOPN function or a top N filter on a column from a DirectQuery
source all values of the column would be retrieved and then the top N filter would be
applied within the DAX engine. Here’s an example of a top N filter set using the filter
pane:
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Reporting
Unshared and unsynchronized axes for small multiples charts
When the ranges of the data for each small multiples category vary wildly,
the charts with low maximums get pushed down compared to charts with
high maximums. It becomes difficult to evaluate the sales trend for lower
charts because it looks close to a horizontal line.
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Reporting
Slicer type formatting moved to Format Pane
Previously, to change a slicer’s type, for example changing from relative date
to a slider, these settings were only available in the visual header and only
on hover. In addition, to change a slicer to “horizontal” required users to first
choose “list” from the visual header to see the option in the format pane
and then use the format pane to swap the orientation.
Now, these settings live in 1 place in the format pane making it easier to
discover and change between slicer types consistently. Note, horizontal has
now been renamed to “tile” based on user feedback.
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Reporting
Slicer type formatting moved to Format Pane
Another added benefit with this change is the new mobile formatting options
now have access to this setting too! Users can quickly update their mobile layout
slicers to use tile to be more mobile friendly.
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Modeling
DAX formula bar support for Desktop model view
• The DAX formula bar is now supported in Desktop model view. You can now create
and edit measures, calculated columns, and calculated tables in the model view on
Desktop.
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Modeling
New DAX function: EVALUATEANDLOG
It takes any DAX expression, evaluates it and returns the result. But that’s not
all: it also logs the result, hence the name EVALUATEANDLOG, to the DAX
evaluation log that you can read out using tools like SQL Profiler.
Making it easier to do comparison calculations
This month we are introducing multiple new functions for DAX, targeted at making it
easier to do comparison calculations in Power BI. The new functions we are
introducing are : INDEX, OFFSET and WINDOW:
INDEX retrieves a result using absolute positioning.
OFFSET retrieves a result using relative positioning.
WINDOW retrieves a slice of results using absolute or relative positioning.
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