Power BI – October 2024 Release notes

Every month, our friends over at Microsoft, in particular, the guys over at the Power BI desk, release a bunch of updates. Going forward, I will blog about the best and most useful ones. Let’s start with the best ones from October 2024.

Part 1.

New List Slicer (Preview)

In this update, we would like to introduce the new List Slicer. To try it, navigate to Options and settings > Options > Preview features > List slicer visual. Major enhancements are coming, including image support, labels, additional conditional formatting options, and improved default styles specifically designed for hierarchical layouts.

Please note, this new visual is in its early development stage, we don’t recommend using it in production currently. However, this is an excellent opportunity to experience the capabilities of this new slicer and provide us with feedback for future improvements.

The new List Slicer can become hierarchical when more than one field is dragged into the field data well. This action will activate additional format settings specific to hierarchical data.

Another advantage of the new slicer is the level of customization it offers, including:

• Selection: Customize how items are selected within the slicer.
• Shape: Adjust the shape of the slicer to fit your design needs.
• Layout: Modify the layout to better organize the slicer elements.
• Overflow: Manage how the slicer handles overflow content (e.g., Continuous scroll, paginated).
• State styles: Define styles for different states (e.g., selected, unselected, on hover).
• Selection icon: Choose an icon to represent selected items. Available for the ‘Tile slicer’ too.
• Expand/Collapse icon: Select icons for expanding or collapsing hierarchical data.
• Button styles: Customize the appearance of buttons within the slicer.

Snowflake connector updates

• The driver used by Snowflake connector is updated to the latest version for incremental improvements.
• The Snowflake connector has improved performance by reducing metadata queries when not necessary.

Part 2. next week I will talk about the new Value Filter, which is in preview. So stay tuned.

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