Change 'Get Data' - 'Most Common' List Drop Down
Current Layout: When selecting the 'Get Data' drop down, there are 8 'Most Common' options listed before the 'More' option. Requested Change: In Power BI Desktop, When selecting the 'Get Data' icon from the 'Home' Tab, The Drop down appears with 8 Sources listed (defaulting to 'Most Common') a...
Add ICON that denotes which Columns are 'Unique' and without Duplicates
When Tables are added, please add a marker or icon that shows which columns could be used to tie in as a relationship based on the columns rows are all unique.
Ability to SAVE 'GETs'
Add the ability to save credentials and Servers to Desktop that can be used in other dashboards, add ability to save scripts and Databases under a favorites, add ability to 'Color Code & categorize that same data within, so I can have favorite scripts in categories like Sales, Sales Activity (CRM...
Create 'Global Table Refresh' structure
Each table used in at least one dashboard is set to refresh [needs an increase in options on this one] by a variable integer of hours, days, weeks, months, etc. Then any dashboards needing to connect to that table would be able to refresh as often as the table or less frequent, so that each table...
ENABLE 'Quick Design' of a Reference File for Report/Dashboard!
In relationship view, add a section in 'Resources' called 'Reference File Template' [or similar], designer clicks button -> pBI Desktop pulls all the headers and tables [data sources] together into an 'Outline' template in Excel, with the hierarchy relationship [each table from the same server, d...
Allow Power BI Desktop Developer to choose day when modeling!!
I deal with sales volumes often and base query logic on 'this month' or 'last month' and so on. Unfortunately, when I am developing on the first of the month, I am unable to Pivot or work with any columns for this month until those specific tables have data in them a few days later. If I could so...
'Replace All' Option for ALL Queries in a PBIX to Replace Field, Database, and Server Names
There are often times where a SQL server, database, or a table [or field within] changes names or moves. When this occurs, we need a way to Replace all instances of the old name with the new name across all queries in a report. This is a constant and painful issue.
Reduce times Power BI Query Editor has to retrieve a new sample set
Query Editor continuously attempts to refresh the models/queries in many instances when it is not necessary and should not be required, such as when simply renaming an applied step [renaming the 'Merged query' step to describe what was merged]. This is costing a significant amount of time for com...
Add Email Gateway Admins button/Conversation Thread on Gateway Settings Browser Page
When accessing the Gateway via App.PowerBI.com, can we add a 'Email Gateway Admins' button in the Administrators tab so that we can quickly notify other admins of issues, or when an admin will be updating the gateway, etc.? Also, would love to have a Teams style conversation thread in this Gatewa...
FutureProofing for Known Header Changes - Power Query
Scenario: While I am building a report, I determine that a field name needs to change at the source in a SQL server, but still need to move forward with my current report. I send a note to the dev group to make that change, but still rename it for now in the query. Unfortunately, when the dev te...