Power BI Report Server Update – August 2018

Today, we’re pleased to announce the August update of Power BI Report Server!  This release contains several new features, including some highly anticipated items like report theming, conditional formatting improvements, and report page tooltips. Read on to learn more about these and many other new capabilities we’ve added in this release.  Please note: For those users who are upgrading their report server from a previous version, we recommend clearing your browser cache before viewing your reports.

Reporting

• Report Theming
• Buttons to trigger actions
• Combo chart line styles
• Improved default sort for visuals
• Numeric slicer
• Advanced slicer syncing
• Log axis improvements
• Data label options for funnel chart
• Set line stroke width to zero
• High contrast support for reports
• Donut radius control
• Pie and donut detail labels position control
• Format data labels separately for each measure in a combo chart
• New visual header with more flexibility and formatting
• Wallpaper formatting
• Tooltips for table & matrix
• Turn tooltips off for visuals
• Slicer accessibility
• Formatting pane improvements
• Stepped line support for line and combo charts
• Sorting experience improvement
• Print reports through Export to PDF (in Power BI Desktop)
• Create bookmark groups
• Slicer restatement
• Report page tooltips

Analytics

• New DAX function: COMBINEVALUES()
• Measure drillthrough
• Conditional formatting by a different field
• Conditional formatting by values

Modeling

• Filtering and sorting in data view
• Improved locale formatting
• Data categories for measures
• Statistical DAX functions

Source: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-report-server-update-august-2018/

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