What’s New in Business Central 2025 Release Wave 2
The Autumn brings the second major release of the year for Business Central, as part of the 2 wave annual update cycle. Here we look at the highlight features.
Power BI March Feature Update – Connectors and Bookmarking
Tanya Denton
Power BI March updates
March brings some exciting updates to Power BI, including several of the most popular connectors becoming generally available and the release of bookmarking which allows you to create bookmarks from scratch in the Power BI Service. They are also previewing report page tooltips, which lets you use visuals in your own customer designed tooltips.
Key updates in this release
Connectors – The new DirectQuery multidimensional connector has hit general availability Bookmarking – In October, a preview of bookmarking was released, this is a tool that can be used for storytelling to app-like navigation. Since then the feature has been made generally available with the latest updates which include more flexibility.
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You no longer need to turn bookmarking on through the Preview feature tab in the Options dialog.
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You can create bookmarks in the Power BI service without needing to create a bookmark in Power BI Desktop first.
- All custom visuals that are published by Microsoft on AppSource support bookmarking.
Full list of February updates
Please watch the overview video and see the following list of updates with links to details on what is new.
See the Power BI Blog
For a detailed overview of these updates, please read the Microsoft blog.
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