August marked the arrival of Power Pilot, Power Embedded's artificial intelligence assistant, together with the new Reports Portal layout. The month also brought warnings for users, two-factor authentication, scheduled capacity resizing, PBIX file publishing through the portal and the support ticket system.
August 30, 2024
New features
- Support ticket system: you can now open support tickets with the Power Embedded team directly in the Administration Portal, with a title and a description of your request. Under Actions › Details, you follow the ticket and exchange comments with the team working on it. Support requests, suggestions and error reports are now recorded and organized in one place. See the documentation
August 28, 2024
New features
- Publishing PBIX files through the portal: report import gained the Power BI File option, which lets you upload a .pbix file and publish it to Power BI directly from the Administration Portal. You no longer need to open Power BI Desktop just to publish a report. See the documentation
August 27, 2024
Improvements
- Payment link and invoice in Billing: the Billing screen now shows the link to pay the monthly fee and the corresponding invoice. Even if you did not receive the automatic email, you can find everything in the portal. See the documentation
- Automatic token renewal while browsing: the report access token is now renewed automatically while the user browses and interacts with the report. This reduces expired token errors for people who keep a report open for a long time. See the documentation
August 22, 2024
New features
- Warnings: a new feature for creating announcements shown to users in the Reports Portal. In the Administration Portal, you register the warning with a title, a description and the display period (start and end date and time). In the Reports Portal, the Warnings icon at the top of the screen shows how many warnings are active and opens each message. It is a simple way to announce scheduled maintenance, outages and internal communications. See the documentation
August 21, 2024
Improvements
- Power Pilot with RLS and table results: Power Pilot now runs queries directly against the semantic model applying the user's RLS rules, and shows query results as a table. Each user only gets answers with the data they are allowed to see. See the documentation
August 16, 2024
Improvements
- Case-insensitive user search: the user search now finds the record regardless of whether the name or email was typed in uppercase or lowercase letters.
August 15, 2024
New features
- Two-factor authentication (MFA): Power Embedded login now supports two-factor authentication, which can also be configured when editing a user. It adds an extra layer of protection to portal access. See the documentation
August 13, 2024
Improvements
- Collapsible application menu and new theme selector: in the Reports Portal, the application menu now works as an accordion that can be expanded and collapsed, and switching between the light and dark themes got its own submenu. Navigation is more organized, especially in applications with many reports. See the documentation
August 7, 2024
Improvements
- Power Pilot assistants in user and group settings: when creating or editing a user or a group, the Assistants tab lets you choose which Power Pilot assistants are available to them. You control AI access in the same place where you manage the other permissions.
August 6, 2024
Improvements
- Dark mode on mobile: dark mode now also works in the mobile version of the Reports Portal, with adjustments to the menu and navigation bar. See the documentation
August 2, 2024
New features
- Scheduled capacity resizing: in time-based cost optimization, you can schedule different actions for each day of the week and, besides turning the capacity on and off, choose the new action to change the capacity to another SKU at specific times. You scale the capacity up during peak periods and down when demand drops, without going to the Azure portal. Changes are recorded in the capacity audit. See the documentation
Improvements
- Hide the Power Pilot button: the visualization portal parameters gained the option Hide Power Pilot button if the user does not have access to any assistant, so the button is not shown to people who cannot use it. See the documentation
August 1, 2024
New features
- Power Pilot (AI) and new Reports Portal layout: the Reports Portal got a new look and now includes Power Pilot, an artificial intelligence assistant that answers questions about your company's data. Clicking Power Pilot opens a sidebar with the assistants the user has access to. See the documentation