I use ZoomIt a lot in my Power BI presentations, but when I record video with a pen tablet or touchscreen, I can do more. So Alberto Ferrari and I wrote this tool that better suits our needs. Power BI is just where the need started; the tool can demo anything else.

SQLBI Whiteboard is a native Windows 11 whiteboard application that supports pressure-aware pen ink, and the bit in the video: LiveView captures any running window onto the canvas (also when the window is not visible - it just doesn't have to be minimized). If you want, you can freeze a report mid-demo and annotate it, but you can annotate it "live". It also has DAX and SQL text containers with syntax highlighting and code formatting (F6).

The app is free and open source (MIT license), without any paid tiers.

Site with downloads and documentation: https://whiteboard.sqlbi.com
Windows Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NN5N0L2TMTF
Source code: https://github.com/sql-bi/SQLBI-Whiteboard

Happy to answer anything. If it breaks, tell me on GitHub Issues (better) or here, of course!

LiveView in SQLBI Whiteboard

Hey folks, if you have done anything with AI, you have probably run into markdown. In this article we explain how it works, recommend shipping it with your PBIP, and compare to other file types you'll find in a PBIP folder.
https://tabulareditor.com/blog/markdown-and-ai-context-for-beginners

Hello, a colleague of mine created a Microsoft Forms survey and has responses he needs inputted into a Power BI dashboard. The Forms data is currently saved to his local computer. I asked him to move the file to a Sharepoint so Power Bi can access it via the web - which he did, but the Forms survey automatically keeps saving a new file to his machine when we disconnect the workbook, and new data go there instead.

I don't have power automate license either. Is there any way to get the forms data directly into power bi that I'm missing? Sorry for my ignorance on this topic.

Made a completely unnecessary Christmas upgrade for Power BI 😂 one of those can i actually do this moments.

50 animated red/green lights using a DAX-generated HTML/CSS visual. No refresh needed — CSS handles the blinking.

Completely useless. 10/10 would deploy to production. 🎄

Just get a html viz like HTML Content (lite), then create a measure and put it in the viz.

ChristmasLights = 
VAR Lights =
    CONCATENATEX(
        GENERATESERIES(1, 50, 1),
        VAR N = [Value]
        VAR Color =
            IF(
                MOD(N, 2) = 0,
                "lime",
                "red"
            )
        VAR Delay =
            FORMAT(MOD(N, 10) * 0.1, "0.0")
        RETURN
            "<span class='light'
                style='background:" & Color & ";
                       animation-delay:" & Delay & "s;'>
             </span>",
        ""
    )


RETURN
"
<style>


.lights {
    display:flex;
    flex-wrap:nowrap;
    width:100%;
    justify-content:space-between;
    align-items:center;


    /* MOVE THE WHOLE ROW DOWN */
    transform:translateY(6px);
}


.light {
    width:16px;
    height:16px;
    border-radius:50%;
    display:inline-block;


    animation:christmasBlink 1s infinite alternate;


    box-shadow:
        0 0 5px currentColor,
        0 0 10px currentColor;
}


u/keyframes christmasBlink {
    0% {
        opacity:1;
        transform:scale(1);
    }


    100% {
        opacity:0.20;
        transform:scale(0.75);
    }
}


</style>


<div class='lights'>
" & Lights & "
</div>
"

Top suggestion in MeasureKiller is "reduce number of calculated columns" and i have no idea what to do. last time i simply disabled the auto date/time setting it broke stuff. people use date hierarchies. im a data engineer so im not a report builder but its my responsibility to fix this stuff sadly. any advice or links to articles would be great. ive never been able to find anything on this. Thanks.

This whole Power BI licensing thing is very confusing. I'm too scared to try out Fabric because it's based on usage and I don't want to explain to my boss why we owe Microsoft thousands of dollars because one of my data engineers did something wrong.

I want to ditch Dataflows Gen1 because they are a pain but I have to decide, do I create something using python to extract the data from 35+ servers and store the data centrally and have PBI point to that central database (postgresql) or can I use PPU for a service account, use Dataflows Gen2 and create reports that point to semantic models in a PPU workspace?

Note we have over 40 Pro license users. We will probably get more, but there is slim to no chance of upgrading all 40 Pro Users to PPU.

Yesterday and today my team ran into this error when deploying through the pipeline an update with a join change. Has anyone run into this?

Backend Error Import Failure: Alm InvalidRequest PurgeRequired.

We ended up deleting the data in these datasets (using Tabular Editor) in PRD workspace to be able to do the deployment but we could only do that since these were smaller datasets.

Does anyone know if this is the new norm for deploying join changes or what should have we done to avoid this?

I tried to do the official training (and then gave up) a few years ago. I remember there were some sections where you'd use Powеr BI on a remote desktop to do some of the practical exercises.

Now that I am looking for work, I am thinking of doing the training and then signing up for the exam to help my job prospects. (Although I have experience with Power BI, I now have a career gap of a few years and it's been very difficult to find anyone to even glance at my CV).

However, I only have access to a chromebook. Would the course work fine with it, or do I need to use the Windows machines at my local library?

Thank you

Hello, I am looking for YT video or videos about creating and populating matrix tables where source data are excel spreadsheets, I need to consume content about creating sub measurements, counting total values based on column filtering, custom row sorting, etc

Much appreciate your inputs

Hello

Can you guys help me find a good Power Bi course on coursera , I don't want it to be Excel oriented, I want it to teach me more about connecting, retrieving and visualizing Data from SQL databases.

Thank you in advance.

r/PowerBi

Hi, why do two colleagues have two different update types? Both using fabric with almost same Views.

hi there,

the problem is on ipad, pbris application. The user tries to set the parameter: PBRIS alternative rendering, make it ON. When user closes the parametres, the settings are getting immediately lost.

Version PBRIS: 38.2. IOS 26.5 ( without that option after this update the user cant see any report). we tried hard reset, reinstall the application - nothing helps.