Power BI Desktop feature summaries
- Power BI Desktop October 2019 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Automatic page refresh for DirectQuery (preview)
- Analytics
- The new Q&A visual
- Improved user experience for Q&A
- Natural Language improvements for Q&A
- Q&A tooling (Preview)
- Support for SSAS and Azure AS including RLS
- Visualizations
- PowerApps visual is now included by default
- New xViz visuals
- Hierarchical Variance Table
- Linear Gauge
- Tag Cloud
- Data connectivity
- Sagra Emigo connector generally available
- Azure Cost Management connector updated
- New Workplace Analytics connector
- Data Preparation
- Query diagnostics
- Data profiling enhancements
- Template Apps
- Project Web App
- Other
- New file format: .pbids
- Performance improvements for modeling operations
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop September 2019 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Color and text classes in themes
- New default themes
- Personalized visualization pane improvements (preview)
- Unpin default visuals
- About info for visuals
- Analytics
- Custom format strings
- Conditional formatting for more visual formatting options
- Alt text
- Border color
- Gauge colors
- Drill through discoverability improvement
- New DAX expressions: REMOVEFILTERS and CONVERT
- Visualizations
- PowerApps visual now generally available
- Data connectivity
- PostgreSQL connector enhancements:
- Support for folding over Native Database queries
- DirectQuery support generally available
- PostgreSQL connector enhancements:
- Data preparation
- Copy to clipboard from data profiling
- Template apps
- Google Analytics report
- Other
- Performance improvements for multi-dimensional models
- Query performance improvements for DirectQuery models
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop August 2019 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Grouping visuals
- Filter pane auto-update
- Icon style picker for Icons conditional formatting
- Conditional formatting warnings
- Analytics
- Key influencers improvements
- Measure support
- General availability
- Key influencers improvements
- Visualizations
- xViz visualization suite by Visual BI
- Multiple Axis chart
- Marimekko chart
- Variance chart
- Horizon chart
- xViz visualization suite by Visual BI
- Data connectivity
- Support for SAP HANA HDI Containers
- Edit SAP variables in Power BI Service (preview)
- PostgreSQL DirectQuery (beta)
- MarkLogic connector now generally available
- New Power Platform category within Get Data
- Template apps
- Facebook Pages – Basic Analytics
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop July 2019 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Icon sets for table and matrix
- Percent support for conditional formatting by rules
- New filter pane is now generally available
- Data colors support when using play axis on scatter charts
- Performance improves when using relative date and dropdown slicers
- Analytics
- Counts for Key influencers visual (preview)
- Aggregations improvements
- RLS support
- Aggregations now generally available
- Visualizations
- PowerApps visual is now certified
- InfoCard
- Sunburst by MAQ Software
- Flying Brick visual
- Data connectivity
- Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 connector (beta)
- Azure Cosmos DB Connector is now generally available
- Dynamics 365 Customer Insights connector
- Data preparation
- New Transform: Split column by positions
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop June 2019 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Updated pane design
- Visual level filters for slicers
- Sorting for the performance analyzer pane
- Conditional formatting updates for formatting options
- Visual background and title colors
- Card colors
- Gauge fill
- Visual header tooltips
- Table & matrix total label customization
- Sync slicer support for hierarchy slicer
- Consistent font sizes across visuals
- Analytics
- Key Influencers visual updates (preview)
- Key Influencers with Live Connect to Power BI datasets
- Key Influencers accessibility
- Support for Cloud RLS
- Manage aggregations dialog accessibility
- Key Influencers visual updates (preview)
- Modeling
- New DAX comparison operator: ==
- Visualization
- Personalized visualization pane (preview)
- SCADAvis.io Synoptic Visual
- PAFnow Process Mining
- DualCard
- Data connectivity
- Connect to shared and certified datasets
- Common Data Service connector is now generally available
- Azure Data Explorer connector is now generally available
- Enhancements to the Cosmos DB connector
- Entersoft
- Data preparation
- Improvements to M Intellisense
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop May 2019 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Performance analyzer pane
- Filter pane improvements (preview)
- Sorting filter cards
- Theming support
- Table and matrix keyboard navigation
- Line data label position control
- KPI visual indicator text size control
- Analytics
- Key influencers visual improvements (preview)
- Binning support
- Formatting options
- Mobile support
- Key influencers visual improvements (preview)
- Modeling
- Disable auto-date tables for new reports
- Update to the ALLSELECTED DAX function
- Visualizations
- ArcGIS maps for Power BI updates
- Mapbox updates
- ValQ – Modern Digital Planning
- Advanced Graph Visual
- Craydec Control Charts
- Walkers Animated Pictogram
- Treemap Bar Chart by MAQ Software
- Data connectivity
- Essbase connector: Support for Native Query (MDX).
- Intune Data Warehouse connector
- Tenforce connector
- Roamler connector
- Other
- Automatic query cancellation for Power BI Desktop
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop April 2019 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Filter pane improvements
- Support for full filter pane editing
- Ability to rename filters
- Filter pane scales with the report page
- Restrict ability to change filter type
- Improved filter pane accessibility
- Conditional formatting for visual titles
- Conditional formatting for web URL actions for buttons, shapes, and images
- Filter pane improvements
- Analytics
- Drillthrough across reports
- Key Influencers visual now supports continuous analysis for numeric targets
- Python support is now generally available
- Partial synonym matching for terms in Q&A
- Modeling
- New DAX function – ALLCROSSFILTERED
- Visualizations
- rainbowGauge
- Data connectivity
- Power BI dataflows connector now generally available
- Oracle Essbase connector now supports DirectQuery and is generally available
- PDF connector now generally available
- Web By Example connector – automatic table inference
- Intersystems IRIS connector
- Indexima connector
- Luminis InformationGrid
- Solver BI360
- Paxata
- Data preparation
- Data Profiling enhancements and general availability
- Fuzzy merge performance enhancements & general availability
- M Intellisense supported in formula bar and custom column dialog & is generally available
- Other
- Power BI Paginated Report Builder
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop March 2019 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Single select slicer
- Heat map support for Bing maps
- Cross-highlight by axis labels
- Default tooltip formatting
- Static web URL support for buttons, shapes & images
- Filter pane improvement
- Page alignment options
- Selection pane improvements
- Formatting updates for maps
- Adjust map points to a smaller size
- Ability to add zoom buttons
- Accessible visual interaction
- Analytics
- Q&A recommendations for improving results
- Show dates as a hierarchy now generally available
- Modelling
- New modelling view now generally available
- New DAX functions
- Custom visuals
- New certified custom visuals setting in admin portal
- Craydec Regression Chart
- Power Slicer
- Data connectivity
- PDF connector now supports tables spanning multiple pages (preview)
- Intelligent Plant’s Industrial App Store connector
- Azure Cost Management connector
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop February 2019 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Updates to the new filter pane (preview)
- More filter pane formatting
- Accessibility improvements for the new filtering experience
- Cross-highlight on a single point in line charts
- Word wrap on titles
- Update default visual interaction to cross-filter
- Rounded corners for visual borders
- Updates to the new filter pane (preview)
- Analytics
- Key Influencers visual (preview)
- Insights questions in Q&A
- Auto-generated suggested questions for Q&A explorer
- Improved Python & R script editor
- Custom visuals
- Additional purchases for custom visuals
- Advanced Donut Visual
- Advanced Combo Visual
- Advanced TimeSeries Visual
- Advanced Network Visualization
- 3AG Systems – Line chart with absolute variance
- Summary Table
- KPImg
- Ultimate KPI Card
- Violin Plot
- Data connectivity
- Microsoft Graph Security
- Guidanz’ BI Connector for OBIEE
- MarkLogic
- Kronos Workforce Dimensions
- SurveyMonkey
- Qubole Presto
- Quick Base
- Sagra Emigo
- Other
- Improved Live connect & Direct Query error messages
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop December 2018 Feature Summary
- Here’s the complete list of December updates:
- Reporting
- Smart guides for aligning objects on a page
- ArcGIS Maps for Power BI updates
- Fields list accessibility support
- Set tab order for objects on a page
- Tooltips for button visuals
- Updated icons for “Visual interactions”
- Analytics
- Live connect support for Q&A (preview)
- Modeling
- DAX formula bar updates
- Data view accessibility support
- Custom visuals
- BIpm: Interactive directed flow graph
- Data connectivity
- AtScale connector (Beta)
- Oracle Essbase connector (Beta)
- Data preparation
- Fuzzy merge – support for Top N best matches
- Other
- High contrast support for all panes and report footer
- Updated keyboard shortcuts dialog
- Power BI Desktop November 2018 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Expand & collapse matrix row headers
- Copy & paste between Desktop files
- Updated filtering experience (preview)
- Report accessibility improvements
- Analytics
- Color saturation on visuals upgraded to use conditional formatting
- Related questions in the Q&A explorer
- Modeling
- New modeling view (preview)
- Composite models now generally available
- Modeling accessibility improvements
- New DAX functions
- Custom visuals
- Calendar by MAQ Software
- Ratings by MAQ Software
- Hourglass Chart by MAQ Software
- Forecast Using Multiple Models by MAQ Software
- Pie Charts Tree
- Data connectivity
- Azure DevOps Server connector
- PDF Connector support for Start Page and End Page parameters
- Improved Azure Consumption Insights connector
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop October 2018 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Search in filter cards
- Improved accessible authoring experiences
- Performance improvements for ArcGIS Map
- Modeling
- DAX editor improvements
- Analytics
- Composite models & Aggregation support in the Power BI service (preview)
- Explain the increase for non-additive measures
- Custom visuals
- Mapbox updates – 3D extrusion on fill maps & more
- Various bar & column chart visuals by Akvelon
- 3AG Systems – Column chart with small multiples
- 3AG Systems – Bar chart with absolute variance
- 3AG Systems – Column chart with relative variance
- Data connectivity
- Web By Example connector is now generally available
- SAP BW Connector implementation v2 is now generally available
- SAP BW Message Server Connector is now generally available
- Vertica connector is now generally available
- Dynamics NAV and Dynamics 365 Business Central connectors are now generally available
- New Dynamics 365 Business Central On-premises connector
- Data preparation
- Data Profiling in Query Editor (preview)
- Fuzzy Matching options for Merge Queries (preview)
- Other
- Control export data options for your reports
- Transport layer security settings
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop September 2018 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Dot plot layout support in scatter charts
- Copy value and selection from table & matrix
- Built-in report theme options
- Report page tooltips generally available & Card support
- Accessibility improvements for analytics and formatting pane support
- Analytics
- Aggregations (preview)
- Q&A support for RLS
- Custom visuals
- Horizon Chart
- Text Enhancer by MAQ Software
- Advance Card
- Multi KPI
- Custom visual API updates
- Data connectivity
- PDF file connector (preview)
- SAP BW connector – support for measure properties
- Dataflows connector (beta)
- Data preparation
- M intellisense (preview)
- Add Column From Examples – support for text padding
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop August 2018 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Print reports through Export to PDF
- Create bookmark groups
- Theming generally available
- Slicer restatement
- Analytics
- Conditional formatting by values
- Python integration (preview)
- Q&A improvements
- Q&A in Power BI Desktop generally available
- Better matching experience for Power BI Desktop and Power BI Premium
- Modeling
- Data categories for measures
- Statistical DAX functions
- Custom visuals
- 3AG Systems – Column Chart with Variance
- Scatter Chart by Akvelon
- Small Multiples Line Chart
- Add Natural Language Summaries for BI
- Pivot Slicer
- Data connectivity
- Spark connector generally available
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop July 2018 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- New visual header with more flexibility and formatting
- Wallpaper formatting
- Theming update – more visual and page control (preview)
- Tooltips for table and matrix
- Turn tooltips off for visuals
- Slicer accessibility
- Formatting pane improvements
- Stepped line support for line and combo charts
- Turn off combo chart data labels for individual series
- Sorting experience improvement
- Analytics
- Distribution factor insights
- Custom visuals
- Power BI certified category
- Disabling specific organizational visual
- Visio custom visual generally available
- Mapbox custom visual generally available
- DataText Box custom visual
- China Scatter Map custom visual
- Data Connectivity
- IBM DB2 DirectQuery connector (preview)
- Improvements to Web By Example connector
- Support for importing multiple custom tables
- Automatic completions for specifying sample values
- Exposure of attribute selectors in HTML.Table function
- SAP HANA – Default values for variables in Variable Input experience
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop June 2018 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- High contrast support for reports
- Donut radius control
- Pie and donut detail labels position control
- Format data labels separately for each measure in a combo chart
- Longer phone reports
- Custom visuals
- Organization Chart
- China Heat Map
- Modeling
- Filtering and sorting in data view
- Improved locale formatting
- Data connectivity
- SAP BusinessWarehouse connector improvements
- New driver and improved performance
- Improved support for hierarchy variables
- Spark connector now supports Windows Authentication
- OData V4 connector enhancements
- ODBC connector improvements
- Folding support for Top Rows
- Ability to filter navigation by DSN catalog
- SAP BusinessWarehouse connector improvements
- Other
- National cloud selector
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop May 2018 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Conditional formatting by a different field
- Advanced slicer syncing
- Log axis improvements
- Data label options for funnel chart
- Set line stroke width to zero
- Analytics
- Measure drillthrough
- Power BI Premium
- Incremental refresh (preview)
- Custom visuals
- Collage by CloudScope
- Chinese Color Map
- Data connectivity
- New “From Web” connector – By example data extraction (preview)
- Common Data Service for Apps connector (beta)
- Azure KustoDB connector (beta)
- Google BigQuery and Azure HDInsight Spark connectors now generally available
- Adobe Analytics connector update – Support for multiple domain logins (preview)
- Visual Studio Team Services connector update – Analytics views support
- OLE DB connector update – Support for alternate Windows credentials
- SAP BW DirectQuery connector update – Improved technical name support
- Data preparation
- Improvements to Add Column From Examples
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop April 2018 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Q&A Explorer (preview)
- Buttons to trigger actions
- Combo chart line styles
- Improved default sort for visuals
- Numeric Slicer now generally available
- Analytics
- Update your linguistic schema
- New DAX function: COMBINEVALUES()
- Custom visuals
- Organizational visuals now generally available
- Overview by CloudScope
- Icon Map by Altius
- Hexbin Scatterplot
- Data connectivity
- Adobe Analytics connector now generally available
- SAP HANA connector improvement: Port selection
- Dynamics 365 Business Central connector
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop March 2018 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Report page tooltips (preview)
- Bookmarking is now generally available
- Display units and precision control for table & matrix columns
- Turn off the visual header in reading mode for a report
- Improved default visual placement
- Custom visuals
- Mapbox
- User List by CloudScope
- Timeline by CloudScope
- KPI Chart by Akvelon
- R DataTable
- Outliers Detection
- Data Insights by MAQ Software
- Dumbbell Chart by MAQ Software
- Clustering using OPTICS by MAQ Software
- Data connectivity
- SAP HANA connector enhancements
- DirectQuery multidimensional support is now generally available
- SSL certificate validation support
- SAP BW DirectQuery is now generally available
- Azure Analysis Services connector is now generally available
- SAP HANA connector enhancements
- Other
- Improved error reporting
- View previous errors you’ve encountered
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop February 2018 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Multi-select data points across multiple charts
- Sync slicers across multiple pages of your report
- Numeric range slicer improvement – whole number snapping (preview)
- Faster geocoding for Bing maps (web preview)
- Overflow data labels for bar and column charts
- Search the formatting and analytics pane
- Analytics
- Mark custom date table
- Quick measures are now generally available
- UTCNOW() and UTCTODAY()
- Custom visuals
- Organizational custom visuals (preview)
- Network Visualization and Filter
- Slope Chart by MAQ Software
- Filter by List
- as Timeline
- as T-Accounts
- Data connectivity
- Improvements to DirectQuery over SAP HANA (preview)
- Other
- DirectQuery performance improvements
- Open and save performance improvements
- “Show items with no data” improvements
- Persistent filters control for up coming Power BI service feature
- Consulting Services quick link
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop January 2018 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Show and hide pages
- Control data label background color for Cartesian and maps visuals
- Increase area used for axis labels in charts
- Bar/column padding control
- Show dates as a hierarchy (preview)
- Add an anchor date for relative date slicer
- Top N selection in Q&A
- Analytics
- Correlation coefficient quick measure
- Custom Visuals
- PowerApps
- TreeViz
- Funnel with Source by MAQ Software
- Box and Whisker chart by MAQ Software
- Agility Planning Matrix Light
- Image Grid
- Gantt Chart by MAQ Software
- Data connectivity
- Support for Azure Active Directory authentication for Azure SQL Database & Data Warehouse connectors
- Other
- Advanced language settings for the Windows store app
- Reporting
- Happy New Year from Power BI Desktop
- Power BI Desktop December 2017 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Q&A for report creation (preview)
- Cross-highlighting for bookmarks
- More bookmark flexibility
- Field properties pane and field descriptions
- Scatter visual from x- & y-axis groupings
- High density sampling for maps based on latitude and longitude
- Responsive slicers
- New custom visuals
- Card Browser
- Table Heatmap
- Data Image by CloudScope
- Power KPI Matrix
- Text Filter
- ChartAccent – LineChart
- ChartAccent – BarChart
- Analytics
- Drill filters other visuals
- Data connectivity
- Adobe Analytics connector (preview)
- HDInsight Interactive Query connector
- Data.World connector
- SAP BW connector improvements:
- Support for connecting to an SAP BW Message Server
- Support for Windows Authentication
- IBM Netezza connector is now generally available
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop November 2017 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Rule-based conditional formatting for table and matrix
- Cell alignment for table and matrix
- Control visual ordering through the selection pane
- Lock objects on your report
- Esri Plus Subscription is available for ArcGIS Maps for Power BI
- Report options for slow data sources
- Filtering performance improvements
- Recently released custom visuals
- Image Timeline
- Social network graph
- Venn diagram by MAQ Software
- HTML viewer
- Analytics
- Cell-level formatting for multidimensional AS models for multi-row card
- Data connectivity
- Impala connector – support for Windows Authentication
- Query editing
- Add Column From Examples improvements
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop October 2017 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Bookmarking (preview)
- Selection pane and visual display controls
- Bookmark links for shapes and images (preview)
- Spotlight
- Scatter & bubble markers
- Increase the number of data points shown in scatter charts
- Analytics
- Quick measures for SSAS live connections
- Sales from new customers quick measure
- Cell-level formatting for multidimensional AS models
- Data connectivity
- Vertica connector (beta)
- SAP BW connector: support for additional member properties
- Other
- Power BI Desktop in the Windows Store
- Improved access to help content
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop September 2017 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Drillthrough to another report page
- Explain the increase/decrease insights (preview)
- Ribbon chart
- Theming preview update – chart style controls
- Accessibility improvements
- Accessible See data
- Keyboard shortcut helper dialog
- High density scatter chart sampling
- Cartesian gridline style control
- New community visuals
- Visio visual (preview)
- Calendar by Tallan
- Enlighten Aquarium
- Impact Bubble Chart
- Data connectivity
- Azure Consumption Insights connector
- Improvements to the Dynamics 365 for Financials connector
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop August 2017 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Show values on rows for matrix
- Color scales on font colors for table & matrix
- Custom subtotal settings per level of matrix
- Line styles and legend options
- Scatter chart performance improvements
- New custom visuals
- Dot Plot by MAQ Software
- Power KPI
- Funnel plot
- Beyondsoft Calendar
- Analytics
- What if parameters
- New scatter chart analytics features
- Symmetry shading
- Ratio line
- New quick measure: weighted average
- Data connectivity
- Live connect to the Power BI service is generally available
- Google BigQuery connector (beta)
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop July 2017 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- New table & matrix visuals are now generally available
- Renaming fields in visuals
- Custom visuals store integration
- Relative date filters
- Responsive layout for visuals (preview)
- New waterfall chart option – breakdown
- Custom visual updates
- Drilldown Choropleth
- Drilldown Cartogram
- Drilldown Player
- Certified custom visuals
- Analytics & modeling
- Quick measures from the community
- Star rating
- Concatenated list of values
- Bidirectional cross filtering for DirectQuery is now generally available
- Quick measures from the community
- Data connectivity
- Snowflake connector general availability
- Query editing
- Add Column from Examples enhancements
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop June 2017 Feature Summary
- Reporting
- Data bars for new table & matrix (preview)
- Markers on line, area, & combo charts
- Accessible reports
- Consume Power BI reports with keyboard navigation and screen reader support
- Create accessible reports
- Visuals font family setting
- Horizontal Image Slicer
- Combo chart formatting updates
- Force zeros to align between the two axes
- Shade area of the line
- Bing maps improvements
- Map themes
- Improved geo hierarchy experience
- High density line sampling
- Data connectivity
- Custom Data Connectors support
- Power BI service Live Connect to On Premises and Push streaming datasets
- Impala connector is now generally available
- Amazon Redshift connector is now generally available
- SAP BW connector – DirectQuery support (beta)
- IBM Netezza connector (beta)
- Query editing
- “Add Column from Examples” enhancements
- Reporting
- Power BI Desktop May 2017 Feature Summary
- Report view
- Relative date slicer (preview)
- New table visual (preview)
- Combo chart data label enhancements
- More URL support in table & matrix
- Mailto links in textbox
- Analytics
- Report level measures for live connections to Analysis Services tabular models & Power BI service datasets
- 2 new quick measures (preview): Total for category & Rolling average
- Bin by count
- Data connectivity
- New connector: Dynamics 365 for Customer Insights
- Combine files – ability to reference “First File” as example
- Query editing
- Two new transforms:
- Extract text before/after/between delimiters
- Unpivot only selected columns
- Two new transforms:
- Report view
- Connecting to datasets in the Power BI service from Desktop
- Quick Measures Preview
- Power BI Desktop April 2017 Feature Summary
- Report view
- Rename axis titles
- New matrix visual enhancements: column sorting, column resizing, and word wrapping (preview)
- Analytics
- Quick measures and show value as (preview)
- Q&A in Spanish (preview)
- Data connectivity
- Connect to datasets in the Power BI service (preview)
- Redshift Connector: beta support & publish to Power BI service
- SAP HANA & BW Connectors: enhancements to parameter input experience
- Query editing
- Add column by example
- Split column (by delimiter/number of characters) into rows
- Group by – basic mode
- Go to column
- Report view
- Power BI Community Report Theme Gallery
- Power BI Desktop March 2017 Feature Summary
- Report view
- Report theming preview
- New matrix visual preview
- Textbox font color
- Numeric range slicer preview
- Percent of total on pie and donut chart data labels
- Cross-highlight using multiple series
- Analytics
- Clustering is now generally available
- Data connectivity
- New Connector: Azure Analysis Services
- Azure Data Lake Store connector is now generally available
- DB2 connector: option to specify package collection
- Combine binaries: ability to specify sample file to use
- Query editing
- Split column by delimiter: automatic detection of delimiter character
- Report view
- Power BI Desktop February 2017 Feature Summary
- Report view
- Word wrap on matrix row headers
- X- and Y-axis font size control
- Cartesian chart minimum category width
- Line chart line thickness and join type controls
- Analytics
- 2 new Quick Calcs: Percent of row total & percent of column total
- Data connectivity
- ODBC and OLE DB connectors: support for selecting related tables
- Enhanced Folder connector: support for combining binaries from the Preview dialog
- Unified text & CSV connectors
- PowerApps Common Data Service connector
- Query editing improvements
- Specify the desired column type and locale in column headers type menus
- Easily insert steps in existing queries
- Other
- Solution Templates and Partner Showcase quick access
- Report view
- Power BI Desktop January 2017 Feature Summary
- Report View
- Table header word wrap
- Table & matrix conditional formatting improvement – blank formatting
- New aggregations for string and dateTime columns
- Phone reports GA
- Data Connectivity
- Visual Studio Team Services connector
- Enhanced SQL Server connector – support for SQL Failover option
- Query Editing Improvements
- New transform: extract values from a nested list
- Report View
- Power BI Desktop – 2016 Year in Review
- Announcing the Preview of Download Power BI Desktop files from the web
- Power BI Desktop November 2016 Feature Summary
- Report View
- Dropdown slicer
- Hierarchical axis
- Matrix conditional formatting
- Table & matrix column formatting
- Axis label and title color control
- Phone reports scrolling
- Analytics
- Clustering (preview)
- Forecasting – now available on Power BI on the web
- Groups – ribbon entry point
- Data Connectors
- Spark DirectQuery
- OData connector – folding of expand record operations
- Enhanced “combine binaries” experience
- Azure Analysis Services
- Web connector updates
- Query Editing Improvements
- Improved “function authoring” experience
- Support for percentage data type
- Maximize/Restore buttons in the Navigator and Query Dependencies dialogs
- Report View
- Power BI Desktop October 2016 Feature Summary
- Report View
- Date slicer
- Report gridlines and snap to grid (Preview)
- Data label improvements
- Map formatting options
- Improved date axis range formatting
- Analytics
- Grouping
- Binning
- Top N filter
- Include/Exclude data points
- R-powered custom visuals
- Data Connectors
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Financials
- OLEDB
- Mixpanel
- Query Editing Improvements
- Support for table parameters in “Invoke Function” dialog
- Other Improvements
- Diagnostic information in the “About” dialog
- Report View
- August Power BI Desktop Update: Updated Drill experience
- Power BI Desktop August 2016 Feature Summary
- Report View
- Drill on line chart
- Continuous axis for Date axis
- General availability of inline hierarchies
- Predefined matrix styles
- Reorder fields in charts and tooltips
- Color formatting for KPI visual
- Analytics
- Analytics pane
- Dynamic reference lines
- Data Connectors
- Impala DirectQuery support
- Snowflake connector
- Improved Web connector – Web page previews
- General availability of SAP BW connector
- Query Editing Improvements
- Option to Merge/Append as New Query
- Other Improvements
- Auto-recover Desktop files
- Report View