Allow an Excel workbook to switch data source to SSAS without recreating all visualizations
Currently, you can import a tabular model from a workbook, but you can't then repoint the data connection to the imported SSAS model. This would be VERY helpful to the migration story, particularly to Dashboards and the SSAS connector.
Power BI Desktop should use the currently logged in account credentials for dataflow connections
When connecting to a dataflow in Power BI Desktop, the connection is cached like all other connections. Each connection persists the relevant tokens for their sources. However, when persisting a SQL connection, each database is cached separately, so different credentials can be used with differen...
Comprehensive theme editor is required for Desktop
Report themes are great. For quite some time we have been able to build JSON file that describe themes. At first they were relatively simple, but have evolved to include theming options for virtually every aspect of a report. The September 2019 edition of Power BI Desktop introduces a massive n...
Support App navigation in the mobile app
Power BI apps have a robust new way to build custom navigation. The Power BI mobile app can access Power BI apps, but it does not see or respect the navigation that is a part of the Power BI app, only select reports and dashboards in a somewhat cumbersome way. The mobile app needs to support Powe...
Allow us to set the default time zone for our Power BI tenant, and have a report level override
This is similar to several other ideas in the system, but this idea has a specific recommendation. It is the. It comes from the Power BI Unconference session at Microsoft Ignite 2019. When time functions are executed in the Power BI service, they are done using UTC time. When executed in Power ...
Report First data model design
This idea comes from the Power BI Unconference from Microsoft Ignite 2019. Add in the capability for Power BI Desktop to create a "visual first" report design. The idea here is to work in a similar fashion to the way the Datazen built reports. A user could design the reports and visuals, and a ...
Premium metrics - Aggregate data across capacities
This idea comes from the Power BI Unconference session at Microsoft Ignite 2019. The Power BI Premium metrics app currently shows data for a single capacity. Data should be aggregated across multiple capacities.
Add time to the value for "Data Updated" in the New Look UI
The "new look" UI displays a value in the top bar for Data updated, which is a welcome addition. Unfortunately, it only displays the date of the update, not the time. This makes it much less interesting in many scenarios. The suggestion is therefor to add the last refreshed time to this value.
Publish Reports Directly to the Service with Power BI Desktop
Currently Power BI Desktop works with PBIX files saved to a local file system only. The files can be uploaded or published directly by the Desktop. Saving to the file on the file system in many cases may be unnecessary, and in some cases even counterproductive. Power BI Desktop should be able t...
Add an HTML Data Category
Currently we can categorize a data column as a Web URL, an image URL, barcode and a number of geographic categories. These choices affect how the data is rendered in reports. What we need is a new category - HTML. Whenever an HTML field is rendered, it could do so using full fidelity HTML in vi...