Substring is one of the most common functions in many languages, However, there is no function named Substring DAX. There is a very simple way of doing it, which I am going to explain in this post. Substring means getting part of a string, for example from “Reza Rad”, if I want to get the Read more about Substring in DAX: How to get Part of String Field in Power BI Using DAX Expression[…]
I have a Power Query script that I usually use in any Power BI solution that needs time-based analysis. However, I never had a chance to publish it here for everyone to use. So here it is. A friend’s question about a time table reminded me that it is good to publish this to the Read more about Script for Creating TIME Table in Power BI with Hours, Minutes and Seconds Buckets[…]
Yesterday, I published a post about having a slicer that filters the rows in a table visual in Power BI that contains the characters from that slicer. A friend asked me what if we want to search for the first few characters? that means selecting the first character, then seeing all the possible second characters, Read more about Search for All the Texts in Power BI Table Visual with the First Three Characters Selected in the Slicer[…]
If you have a lot of text in a table visual in Power BI and want to search to find all texts with a specific character in it, I have a solution for you. You can have an alphabet slicer and use it to filter the table visual, the trick is to combine it with Read more about Search in Power BI Table Visual Using a Slicer For Contains Character Criteria[…]
In the previous article, I explained how you can use GROUPBY function in DAX to create an aggregated table. In this article, I’ll explain how you can use Summarize function for the same purpose. Summarize function gives you more control on how to create your aggregated table with some extra functions. Let’s see how it Read more about Aggregated Table in Power BI with Extra Options – Summarize Function in DAX[…]
There are many different ways you can create aggregations in Power BI, You can do it in the source (using the database t-SQL language), or using Group By operation in Power Query. You can also do it in DAX using some functions. One of the functions that can be used for grouping and aggregation is Read more about Aggregated Table in Power BI – Using GroupBy Function in DAX[…]
I have explained previously that you can use GenerateSeries function in DAX to create a list of number, date or time, or even currency values. However, sometimes you might need to create a list of text values. Such as alphabet; from “a” to “z” lowercase, or uppercase. The good news is that you can do Read more about Create a Table with A to Z Character Values in Power BI Using DAX[…]
Previously, to create page navigation in Power BI, you needed to create bookmarks, and buttons to action to that bookmark. However, recently, in the last version of Power BI Desktop, the ability to easily navigate to other pages using Buttons in announced. In this short article, I’ll explain how you can use this approach to Read more about Page Navigation Buttons in Power BI[…]
In the previous article/video, I explained how to create dynamic bins by choosing the count of bins in a slicer in the Power BI report. In this article, I’ll explain, how you can do it the other way around, which is by selecting the size of the bin, you will have bins and buckets dynamically Read more about Dynamic Banding or Grouping in Power BI – Using DAX Measures – Choose the Size of Bins[…]
Banding (or binning or grouping) is a scenario that can be implemented both statically and dynamically in Power BI. Dynamic banding means selecting the bin (or band) configuration, and the banding changes based on the user selection of the slicer. Imagine that we have a count of customers by their age groups, but then we Read more about Dynamic Banding or Grouping in Power BI – Using DAX Measures – Choose the Count of Bins[…]