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I compiled a list of “low hanging fruit” that I strongly believe would be universally beneficial to either the report designer, the end user, or both.
I'm posting this here instead of User Voice because User Voice has inherent limitations. My concern isn't so much that the wrong ideas are top-voted, but that other genuinely good ideas are getting missed. Additionally, some ideas are vague and other ideas overlap, so as a user it becomes hard to know which idea(s) to support for any given need (which spreads the votes out or discourages voting).
This list identifies the features that PowerBI has neglected or implemented in a limited capacity.
These features have the following in common:
I'm genuinely shocked and disappointed in the updates lately, not because they aren’t impressive or clever features, but because they seemingly are consistently features that will only benefit <=1% of users. The latest update was announced with the following tagline: “This month we are introducing some features that will enhance the overall user experience.” The features were predefined table styles (which doesn’t address anything that could already be done) and Custom maps that requires specially configured maps to be designed and implemented). Those aren’t overall user experience features.
Features such as Augmented Reality tiles and QR scanning have been prioritized over shoring up the basics; Too often we're seeing seemingly random or limited use case features such as QR codes and AR tiles that likely <0.1% of users will ever use.
Great post. I would also like to add that in Tableau you can overlay coordinates on top of polygonal areas on a map. This is a huge requirement since I work in a very large organization.
I compiled a list of “low hanging fruit” that I strongly believe would be universally beneficial to either the report designer, the end user, or both.
I'm posting this here instead of User Voice because User Voice has inherent limitations. My concern isn't so much that the wrong ideas are top-voted, but that other genuinely good ideas are getting missed. Additionally, some ideas are vague and other ideas overlap, so as a user it becomes hard to know which idea(s) to support for any given need (which spreads the votes out or discourages voting).
This list identifies the features that PowerBI has neglected or implemented in a limited capacity.
These features have the following in common:
I'm genuinely shocked and disappointed in the updates lately, not because they aren’t impressive or clever features, but because they seemingly are consistently features that will only benefit <=1% of users. The latest update was announced with the following tagline: “This month we are introducing some features that will enhance the overall user experience.” The features were predefined table styles (which doesn’t address anything that could already be done) and Custom maps that requires specially configured maps to be designed and implemented). Those aren’t overall user experience features.
Features such as Augmented Reality tiles and QR scanning have been prioritized over shoring up the basics; Too often we're seeing seemingly random or limited use case features such as QR codes and AR tiles that likely <0.1% of users will ever use.
Great post mate. So many of these seem to have been on the promise list for so many months - Custom colour pallette is now a year old.
Great to see someone willing to put this out there, and agree that the development focus should be on getting the basics to a solid and reliable level. This should be prioritised - even at the expense of monthly updates of lower value features.
The comments regarding custom visuals deserve a point on their own - especially those which are Microsoft sourced - this is an absolute nightmare every month !
At least the version number and date of publish is available from the visual gallery, but no notice of updates available.....
Chiclet slicer is probably the best example - 4 updates in the course of one month between PBI desktop updates !