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When you export data in a Power BI table or matrix report to Excel, you quickly run into a few limitations. Let us take this sample report. Shown below is the data from the above Power BI matrix exported to an excel file. You would notice the following: Finally, data from a table & matrix […]

When you export data in a Power BI table or matrix report to a PDF, you quickly run into a few limitations. Let us take this sample report. When you export it to a pdf file, you will notice that only the data in the visible part of the window gets exported. Refer image below. […]

Currently in a native Power BI matrix, you cannot expand or collapse columns freely as you can do with rows. In the example below, even though we have assigned region, sub-region & quarter to Columns, only the region shows up by default, and there is no way to expand a specific region to reveal the […]

Inforiver delivers a variety of spreadsheet-like capabilities that make it very appealing for Excel fans to embrace Power BI. A very popular feature of Excel that is missing in Power BI is the ability to group rows and columns. In Excel, this is accomplished using the Group (outline) settings property. Group rows in Power BI […]

While reporting data using a Power BI table/matrix, we often encounter scenarios where we need to insert a new column and enter data manually. With Inforiver, you can create a new column and enter data manually as you do with excel. This is especially useful when the measure that we need is not already present in the data model, […]

Quite often we would like to insert a row in our table / matrix reports in Power BI and enter our own data. For example, a financial statement report connecting to a database query may be able to fetch revenue & expense metrics. But it might not retrieve the number of shares outstanding. Similarly, a […]

Till date, the options to perform a custom sort or reorder of rows (or columns) in Power BI have been limited. This is the case with many other BI tools as well. One common Power BI workaround requires you to modify your data model. You will need to create a separate column that defines a […]

With Inforiver, it is possible to insert a new calculated row, column or a measure at the visual-level in your Power BI table / matrix style reports, without writing DAX. The rows, measures and columns so created can also be formatted, rearranged, and utilized for downstream calculations. Let us take this example, where we have sales data […]

While working with Power BI table / matrix reports, we would sometimes like to apply custom measure aggregations in a specific report (e.g., average quantity sold) instead of using the default aggregation used in a data model (e.g., sum of quantity sold). Many times, changing the aggregation in the data model may not be possible […]

Inforiver delivers a powerful 'Manage Columns' feature that helps you show/hide columns, reorder measures, resize columns by setting default column widths and apply custom aggregations in your Power BI table / matrix reports. To access this feature, click on the 'Manage Columns' dropdown from the top of the ribbon menu. Using the check boxes on […]