Cloudfide’s Business Intelligence Newsletter – April 2026

1️⃣ Power BI Service - How to create a Power BI Semantic Model online 

• Why is it interesting? The article explains the workflow in the browser and positions it as a practical option when Desktop is not available or not desired. Handy for teams exploring web modeling and browser-first work. 

• Audience: Begginer → Intermediate 

• Area: Web Modeling / Power BI Service 

  
  

2️⃣ Power BI Input Slicer - Powerful, Flexible Filtering 

• Why is it interesting? The video explains the newly named Input Slicer and shows how it helps users filter reports using typed values instead of scrolling through long lists. The topic is especially useful for reports with many members or long categorical filters. 

• Audience: Begginer 

• Area: Report interactions / UX / New feature 

️3️⃣ Power BI Optimization - Semantic model refresh memory 

• Why is it interesting? This third part of a series dives deeply into how VertiPaq uses memory during semantic model refresh, and why refresh memory spikes differ from resting model size. 

• Audience: Advanced 

• Area: Performance / Optimization / Data Modeling 

4️⃣ Power BI Visuals - Avoid Future Date Overflow 

• Why is it interesting? The article walks through several ways to stop charts from extending into future dates and creating misleading visuals. It compares DAX approaches using scope checks, MAX/TODAY logic, and CALCULATE-based filters. 

• Audience: Intermediate 

• Area: DAX / Visuals / Data Modeling 

5️⃣ Workspace Tags - Find Your Content Faster 

• Why is it interesting? Workspace tags are now generally available, adding a lightweight way to classify and find workspaces faster. Small but practical governance improvement for teams with multiple workspaces. 

• Audience: Begginer → Intermediate 

• Area: Power BI Service / Governance 

6️⃣ TMDL View - Script Your Data Model Online 

• Why is it interesting? Power BI brings TMDL editing into the browser, allowing developers to script, modify, preview, and apply semantic model changes without switching to Desktop. The post explains what the web experience offers, how it differs from Desktop, and why it matters for code-first model development. 

• Audience: Intermediate → Advanced 

• Area: Power BI Service / TMDL / Web Modeling 

7️⃣ Less GUIDs - Use Relative Paths for the Item References 

• Why is it interesting? The article shows how to reference workspaces and items by relative names instead of hard-coded GUIDs in Power Query dataflows. The post focuses on making CI/CD and source control less painful by reducing brittle GUID-heavy references. 

• Audience: Advanced 

• Area: Power Query / CI/CD / Dataflows 

8️⃣ Power BI Data Drill - Arrows Behavior Explained 

• Why is it interesting? This video explains how drill-down and drill-up arrows work in Power BI visuals and how they improve navigation through hierarchical data. A useful refresher for report authors who want simpler, more intuitive navigation.  

• Audience: Begginer 

• Area: Navigation / Visuals / UX