excel surveys to output directly into PowerBI
OneDrive has these things called Excel Surveys. It'd be nice if these had the option to add data into a PowerBI dataset rather than an Excel workbook. I suspect there is roughly a 0.01% chance that anyone on the PowerBI team will give two hoots about getting this implemented, but there's no harm ...
open recent reports
In PBI Designer there is an option to open an existing report. It would be great if this showed you a list of your most recently open reports (i.e. a MRU list). Even better would be if the MRU list synced across devices, just as it does for Excel/Word/PowerPoint these days.
More insights required when loading a query
Please download this .pbix: http://1drv.ms/19kbMxs, open it and try and load data into the reports (you will need to create a data source setting for http://sqlblog.com in order to do so). It takes quite a long time to run so please be patient. The query attempts to load data from http://sqlblog...
Average/Count/Sum cells when selecting them in Power Query
When in Excel I can select a range of cells and, if they're numeric, will show the following information in the footerbar: Average Count Sum I would find it useful to be able to do the same in Power Query (both when using PQ in Excel and also in PBI Designer). Currently if I select a cell in the ...
Microsoft health
Can you add Microsoft Health as a data source please? I'd love to analyse the data that I capture every day simply by virtue of wearing my Microsoft Band.
Support for hadoop distros other than Microsoft's own
I see a lot of features in Power BI for connecting to Microsoft's own hadoop service (I won't spell it out here because I don't want it to turn up in search results but an acronym for it might be HDI) but I'd like to see support for other distros too. For example, I have an on-premises Cloudera c...