In January 2017, Microsoft had a blog post about which visuals were better for displaying Actual versus Budget or Forecast variances. If you liked that post you will love what Power BI – Visual Planning can do for you: Update your Forecast or Budget numbers on the fly directly in PowerBI! How is the Budget or Forecast doing? Lets take a look! It is obvious
Read MoreNew! Power Update – Power BI Desktop
Happy 2017! We are now introducing a new way to get fresh data in your Power BI Desktop Workbooks, and publish them to a Workspace in Power BI Service!!! Today we are announcing: Power BI Desktop refresh with Direct Access to Data Model Support for Power BI Workspaces or Groups in Power Update In versions prior to 2017, Power Update was using UI Automation that
Read MorePower Update Maintenance
Power Update is sold by a one-time fee that gives users a perpetual license to use the software forever. Power ON offers an optional maintenance contract in order continue to receive updates for the software. Q: What does a maintenance contract cover? The maintenance contract is an in-expensive way to ensure that Power Update continues to run flawlessly. Users receive the following benefits: Automatic
Read MoreActivate license using License key
After purchasign a license, you will receive a license key After downloading and installing the software, you need to activate the software in the Options\Activate menu button. To activate the software enter your license key (if the license key option is not available, you are probably using an old version of the software, in this case please download the latest version). If activation fails, it’s
Read MoreTroubleshooting Power BI UI Automation
To troubleshoot the update of pbix files using UI Automation, you first need to watch the process and identify the part where the UI automation fails: Issue at the Start of the update: If the update process fails at the start (before or shortly after opening Power BI desktop, the error message usally says “Could not find window matching condition.”) the problem is most likely
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