Function to reference theme colors from DAX
It would be very useful to be able to reference theme colors from DAX for use in measures that provide a custom color to a visual.
So that if the theme is changed, no additional work is needed to edit DAX formulas that use colors from the theme.
This could be similar to...
Flexbox for PowerBI Visuals layout
It would be great to have the equivalent of html flex layout for visuals in power BI - Allowing nesting of "container" visuals, with visuals inside a flex-layout-container adjusting to the constraints when being shown.
Not only would this alleviate the fiddly alignment and res...
Prevent PowerBI Desktop's SSAS hogging the machine
Power BI runs a local version of SQL Server Analysis Services (msmdrv.exe)
This application is optimised for servers, not desktops.
When it is busy number-crunching behind the scenes, it starves all resources from other programs running on the desktop machine, and makes the entire ...
Improve performance in editor
The experience of editing a power BI data model from the report editor screen is particularly unpleasant.
In a large model (say 80 queries with a few dozen fields each, maybe 20 measure "tables" with a dozen measures in them) adding a measure or calculated field can take 2 minutes before...
Aggregate measures for calculation groups + allow as implicit measures
Calculation groups are interesting, but have two show-stopping limitations
- discouraging implicit measures, and hiding them from the editor.
- Applying to all measures in a visual when selected - rather than specific ones.
In order to use calculation grou...