Another month, another monthly update...
While it is nice to see some features being added here and there (eve though I am puzzled on the criteria of which features take priority -- as it certainly isn't number of votes, nor quality issues Image may be NSFW.
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) -- I am baffled to see that bugs that have been reported 6+ months ago (which MSFT acknowledged to be a bug) are still in the product.
CASE IN POINT: Adding an image URL field for a slicer works if the slicer orientation is vertical. However, if the orientation is set to horizontal, the URL of the image is shown instead of the image.
I know everyone likes to see new features being added, but quite often some features seems to be added half-way, or with bugs. I feel it is time that the Power BI team should focus on squashing bugs and increasing the quality of the product, even if this delays the introduction of new data sources or other novel capabilities.
Some qualitative issues include:
- Not being able to specify the font colour in a text box (this would have never passed if I was the QA Image may be NSFW.
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) - Keyboard nudge not working when multiple visuals are selected Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. (maybe this will help). - Not able to open reports in Power BI Desktop that are published in PowerBI.com.
- Lack of Enterprise Gateway for Power BI Embedded (PBE is pretty much useless otherwise).
- Support for custom R scripts (if you want to open the gates of R, then open all the way. Most R users require an obscure R package here and there. I for instance code my own packages).
I'm sure many might disagree, but I would love to se a list of "here is all that we fixed in this release of Power BI" every two months rather than a list of new features every month.
