With data flowing from every corner of an organization, it is easy to get lost in a sea of information where key data points are sprinkled across scattered reports and dashboards. Goals is a new Power BI feature that helps individuals, teams, and organizations keep track of their most important business metrics and objectives, packaged in a seamless experience anyone can use. To that end, we have introduced a new artifact type in Power BI called a “scorecard”. Scorecards hold a cohesive set of goals, presented in one unified view. A goal represents a single metric over time, which can be entered manually or automatically refreshed from an existing Power BI report.

If this sounds new to you, I encourage you to read through this introduction, discover everything you can do with Power BI Goals and what’s on our roadmap. Then, create your first scorecard and read on!

Example of a scorecard for the fictional Northwind company

In this blog post, we will walk through how to embed scorecards in your application in two different ways. A low code option via the scorecard’s secure publish url, and a more powerful option with the Power BI Javascript SDK. This is just a sneak peek; the feature is still being worked on and you can expect more control, customization options and flexibility for the public release.

Setting default date filters in Power BI is a challenging task. if you need to filter to a certain date range such as Today, current month, the past 7 days, and so on. I am sharing a technique here on how to achieve it using DAX and Calculation groups.

Power BI gives us a flexibility of using custom visuals in variety of scenarios to take our reports to the next level. Today in this blog I will be talking about Comicgen custom visual in a particular scenario to show how this visual can add a bit of emotion and pose visually to your report. 

This blog will focus on getting you to learn how to calculate group distribution using Power Query in Power BI. This training is a relatively easy one. We’ll provide a dataset containing product and value and our goal will be to design a histogram to better communicate insights on the product base. 

What could happen with using the Sort By Column setting? Keep reading to find out!