PUG Summit | Understanding Time Intelligence with Power BI

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Presenter: Dan Edwards

Auto Date Fields

Power BI can create automatic date hierarchies, for report and drill down by Year/Quarter/Month/Day. It’s important to consider whether your data model has more than one fact table with a date attribute. If there are multiple facts, or you have already created a date table, it’s a better to use your own date dimension.

“Don’t use auto date/time” -Dan

I love these types of tips and tricks – here’s how it works, and don’t do it!

Creating a Date Table with DAX

It’s possible to use a DAX expression to create a date table. The initial DAX expression looks like this:

Date = CALENDAR(“1/1/2016”, “12/31/2019”)

Use the DAX expression to create a New table in Power BI.

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Then additional columns can be added to the Date dimension table:

Month = MONTH(‘DATE'[Date])

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It’s also possible to do concepts like MonthDate where you calculate a Date column with the first day of every month, which can provide flexibility.

MonthDate = DATE( YEAR(‘DATE'[Date]) , MONTH(‘DATE'[Date]) , 1 )

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Using an Effective Date

One of the scenarios is a scenario where the user wants to pick the effective date – for example a cutoff date or the last 12 months.

Dan mentioned he has a fairly extensive blog post on how to implement this concept.

 

Great presentation!

D365UG Summit | What’s New in Financials and UI

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Microsoft presented today at D365UG summit on some of the new UI, Financials, and Production features available.

Presenters: Jason Green, Mike Faulkner, Philippe Jacobsen

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Check the Release notes for the specific estimated release date of these features. Some may be released in early 2019 or beyond.

Web Client

I covered some of the enhancements to the web client released in Platform 20 in a previous post.

What’s Coming

Collapsible navigation in menus will simplify finding a menu item.

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New options will be available for saved views on forms, which allows for multiple personalizations on a form.

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New grid capabilities will include:

  • Improved scrolling – more data will be held client side so the scroll is more accurate and not paginated
  • Filter/sort on any column including “display fields”
  • Excel-style column filtering – pick filters from list
  • Grand totals on grids
  • Grouping and subtotaling on grids
  • Cross-column search
  • Remove 10,000 record Download to Excel limit – not infinite, probably 1 million records

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Finance

I’ll be doing an upcoming live AXUG webinar on October 31st called “What’s New in the D365 for Finance and Operations Fall 2018 Release (8.1, Platform 20)” that will cover many of the new features discussed during the session and will include live demos.

Revenue Recognition

The Revenue Recognition features are used when billing is done at a summary Sales Order level, but the Revenue needs to be split out. New capabilities will be added to allow for this split.

Enterprise Credit Management

Ability to put orders on hold and have global credit limits.

Supply Chain

All kinds of Performance improvements.

MVPs at User Group Summit

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Looking for some fantastic sessions? Check these out – all led by a Microsoft MVP.

D365UG & AXUG Community General Session & Microsoft Town Hall

MVP Kelly Kane! She’s in charge! #womenindynamics

Kelly Kane @kellylappkane | Tuesday, October 16 | 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM | North Building, North Ballroom

BI12 – Moving From Reports to Business Intelligence

Who, me?

Joel Leichty @joelleichty | Tuesday October 16 | 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | 122A – North

FIN17 – Understanding Production Cost Accounting for the Best Outcome

Don Riggs @donriggs_mvp | Tuesday, October 16 | 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | 126B – North

HOL1 – Hands-on Lab: Workflow Part 1-Planning the Perfect Workflow

Rachel forced me to write this post. #UnderDuress

Rachel Profitt @rachelprofitt | Tuesday, October 16 | 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | 127C – North

HOL2 – Hands-on Lab: Workflow Part 2-Making the Perfect Workflow Even More Perfect

Is there a part 3: “Making the Perfectest Workflow Go to 11”?

Rachel Profitt @rachelprofitt | Tuesday, October 16 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | 127C – North

BI14 – Collecting BI Requirements for an Upgrade or Implementation

Joel Leichty @joelleichty | Tuesday, October 16 | 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM | 122A – North

FIN13 – The New Vendor Invoice Automation in Practice

I’m disappointed I can’t make this session! Looks great.

Ludwig Reinhard @dynamicsaxfico | Tuesday, October 16 | 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM | 125A – North

HOL3 – Hands-on Lab: Workflow Part 3-Finalizing and Testing the Perfect Workflow

LOL I swear I didn’t see this before I wrote my snarky comment above.

Rachel Profitt @rachelprofitt | Tuesday, October 16 | 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM | 127C – North

IND13 – Application Lifecycle Management: Operating Multiple Instances of AX 2012 R3 and D365

Thomas Ejby @powerpappi | Tuesday, October 16 | 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM | 126A – North

SYS07 – Leveraging Excel for Reporting and Data Manipulation

Excel!!! Best ERP on the market, in my opinion.

Justin Carter @DAXDude | Wednesday, October 17 | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM | 121A – North

LPD04 – From Developer to Leader: What I Learned on my Journey Through the ERP Industry

Justin Carter @DAXDude | Wednesday, October 17 | 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM | 128B – North

LPD05 – The Art of Mentoring a Technical Expert

Don Riggs @donriggs_mvp | Thursday, October 18 | 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM | 128B – North

DEV09 – Flowing With the Common Data Services – Part 1

Rachel Profitt @rachelprofitt | Thursday, October 18 | 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM  & 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM | 122C – North

MFG09 – Ask the Experts: Master Planning

Don Riggs @donriggs_mvp | Thursday, October 18 | 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | 126B – North

FIN18 – Understanding Revenue and Cost: Inventory and Purchasing Cost Accounting

Don Riggs @donriggs_mvp | Thursday, October 18 | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM | 128A – North

FIN21 – Not to Fear: Audits, AX, and Beer is Back Again for 2018!

Our fearless leader is back!

Kelly Kane @kellylappkane | Thursday, October 18 | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM  | 227A – North

POWDC08 – Power BI for Accountants

Belinda will teach you about debits and credits. Most accountants only dive into one other the other.

Belinda Allen @belindathegpcsi | Thursday, October 18 | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM | 228B – North

D365UG/AXUG Closing Feedback Session

 

 

SAGlobal at AXUG Summit

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I wanted to highlight some of my partners in crime presenting at AXUG/D365UG Summit next week. (Ok to be honest I wanted to highlight myself as well.)

BI12 | Moving From Reports to Business Intelligence

I won’t take Excel away until you’re ready. Promise.

https://www.eventscribe.com/2018/Summit/fsPopup.asp?embedded=true&pfp=FullD365UG_AXUG&Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=423650

Joel Leichty | Tuesday, October 16 | 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | 122A – North

FIN01 | Fixed Price Projects, and Revenue Recognition, and Currencies, Oh My!

Josh is juggling in the session picture – I can only assume he will do this entire session while juggling flaming knives.

https://www.eventscribe.com/2018/Summit/fsPopup.asp?embedded=true&pfp=FullD365UG_AXUG&Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=423657

Josh Knox | Tuesday, October 16 | 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | 121C – North

PM01 | Data Migration: Isn’t it Just Exporting and Importing?

Sherry won a big AXUG award last year, so I’ll retitle this session “Award Winning Data Migration Information”.

https://www.eventscribe.com/2018/Summit/fsPopup.asp?embedded=true&pfp=FullD365UG_AXUG&Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=423645

Sherry Moran | Tuesday, October 16 | 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | 121A – North

BI14 | Collecting BI Requirements for an Upgrade or Implementation

I’m co-presenting with Gina Pabalan on this presentation. Fun fact: Gina and I didn’t know each other until we started collaborating for this session. That’s my favorite part of AXUG!

https://www.eventscribe.com/2018/Summit/fsPopup.asp?embedded=true&pfp=FullD365UG_AXUG&Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=423684

Joel Leichty and Gina Pabalan (Edgerwater Fullscope) | Tuesday, October 16 | 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM | 122A – North

FIN03 | Everything About Streamlining Your Project Intercompany Transactions

Should be a good one. And how many presenters do you know that can rock orange pants?

https://www.eventscribe.com/2018/Summit/fsPopup.asp?embedded=true&pfp=FullD365UG_AXUG&Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=423671

Alex Song | Tuesday, October 16 | 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM | 121C – North

APS33 | SAGlobal “Ask Us Anything”

Come to our Partner Showcase where we promise to not sell you anything! Bring your questions, we’ll have experts on hand to answer anything: F&O, AX, CRM, Talent, Power BI, baking at higher altitudes, average airspeed of unladen swallows – we’ll do our best!

https://www.eventscribe.com/2018/Summit/fsPopup.asp?embedded=true&pfp=FullD365UG_AXUG&Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=424349

Wednesday, October 17 | 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM | 125A – North

IND02 | Member Showcase: Implementing Dynamics 365 for Talent

See how our customer, M3, is using Talent.

https://www.eventscribe.com/2018/Summit/fsPopup.asp?embedded=true&pfp=FullD365UG_AXUG&Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=423713

Nancy Graver and Trish Mallon (M3) | Wednesday, October 17 | 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM | 126A – North

IND03 | Project Budgeting for the Service and AEC Industries

Budget your time wisely (#dadjokes) and attend Steve’s project budgeting session.

https://www.eventscribe.com/2018/Summit/fsPopup.asp?embedded=true&pfp=FullD365UG_AXUG&Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=423724

Steve Dobbs | Wednesday, October 17 | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM | 126A – North

Platform 20 Brings Significant UI Changes to Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations

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Platform 20 was recently released and includes a number of noticeable changes to the User Interface; this article will highlight some of the significant changes. Overall, these changes are a welcome incremental improvement to some common usability issues.

Workspaces

Workspaces on the Default Dashboard are set apart from the background, making it more obvious they are buttons.

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New Button
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Font Changes

Header fonts are bolder and use a heavier font than before.

Old Fonts
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New Fonts
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Ribbon Bar Color

Ribbon bar is now a more neutral color to better indicate the buttons are related to the form below.

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New Coloring
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Fact Boxes

Opening the Fact Boxes went from an impossible to discover button to a “Related information” slide-out.

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New Slide-out
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Filter Drop-down

The grid filter drop-down and filter pane have been reorganized and enhanced.

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New Drop-down and Filter pane
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Filter Slide-out Blends into Form

The filter slide out has new fonts, coloring that better blends into the form, and more obvious link indicators.

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New Filter Slide-out
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Edit Icon When Form in Read-only Mode

There’s now an edit icon on each field when a form is in read-only mode. This makes it more obvious for users to switch the form into edit mode.

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Subtle Field Outlines in Read-only Mode

Field boxes in detail forms are more subtle when in Read-only mode. Edit mode is similar to the prior design.

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