Blogs

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 […]

With Inforiver, you can now perform formatted export to excel and PDF on your table / matrix reports in Microsoft Power BI. This means you can not only export but also retain the following while performing your export: report layout value & number formatting text/background colors & formatting notes & annotations row/column hierarchy structure, and […]

Power BI has been around since July 2015. Over the years, it has seen continuous improvement in both capability and functionality.  As I am sure you can appreciate, when developing new software from scratch, there is everything to do but limited time to do it.  The reality is that the work needs to be prioritized […]

Inforiver recently launched its Standard Edition in Microsoft App Source. Following are the excerpts from the Power BI Monthly Blog (Nov 21). Inforiver delivers the fastest way to build visualizations and reports in Power BI. With Inforiver Standard Edition, you can create IBCS-compliant P&L/financial statements, variance reports and visualizations in a single click. The standard edition comes with […]

In Microsoft Power BI, you may often encounter incorrect total values while using calculated measures. Here is one such example. We have budget amounts for a few products (Budget Amount) and have incurred expenses against each (Posted Expenses). Our objective is to calculate remaining budget in a new column, and add them up. Let us […]

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 […]