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Power BI Hierarchies performance tips and tricks Today we are excited to talk about some tips and tricks for improving load performance of hierarchies in Power BI. Hierarchies in scorecards is a hugely powerful tool, so let’s talk about how to optimize content load times for your users and make cascading scorecards as useful as possible. First, some background. What is ‘hierarchies’? Power BI Metrics enables ‘cascading scorecards’ that roll up along hierarchies in your data. You can set up a hierarchy for a scorecard and map the Power BI datasets referenced by your metrics to the hierarchy levels and owner fields, automatically creating a new scorecard view for each slice of your data. That’s potentially thousands of automated scorecard views with just a few clicks. Power BI will cascade connected metric values to each level of the hierarchy. Users can easily drill into the hierarchy to see progress, statuses and do check-ins at different levels. In the images below, you can see the di...

Welcome to the March 2023 Power BI Feature Summary! After almost 10 years, support for Windows 8.1 has ended on January 10, 2023. In line with this, we will stop support for Power BI Desktop on Windows 8.1 on January 31, 2024. After that, Power BI Desktop will only be supported on Windows 10 and newer. The January 2024 release of Power BI Desktop for Report Server will be the last release to support Windows 8.1, and this version will only receive security updates until January 2025 per the  Modern Lifecycle Policy . This release you’ll find On-object interaction, which allows you to right-click on a visual to access the format pane, updates to the way you can apply slicers on your reports using a new Apply All Slicers button, Multiple Audiences in the Power BI app, email subscriptions for scorecards, and the General Availability of Storytelling in PowerPoint. Read on for these features and more in Reporting, Data Connectivity, Service, Mobile, and Visualizations! Reporting Apply al...