When a visual is refreshing, grey it out and place a much more obvious loading icon on it.
It's not at all obvious currently that a visual is still refreshing. I think it would be a much better experience to grey out the visual and centrally place a large loading icon on it. Otherwise, there's a risk a user might think a visual has refreshed when it hasn't, especially with different vi...
Support drillthrough from a total row
Support Drillthrough Actions for analysis in Excel, as with SSAS
Would make for a nice interplay between slice/dice data discovery in Excel and drilling through to a related report in the browser.
Automatic 'Unknown Member' generation when relating tables
In some circumstances, it's not desirable for data to be excluded from a visual because for some of its fields there is no data. The 'Show Items With No Data' feature mitigates this but enabling it causes refresh to take MUCH longer - too long to be acceptable to my users. An alternative is an op...
Row grouping in table visualisation to help with one-to-many data
This would be VERY useful, I think. Example - one customer owns three products. The table visualisation has columns of customer and product attributes. The cells containing this customer's attributes are tall. The cells containing this customer's products' attributes are normal height. Stacked ve...
'Data Model Last Updated' datetime visual
It would be very useful if PBI exposed the data model's datetime last refreshed to users as a variable for placing on report pages in some suitable visual.