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ArcGIS for Power BI – v 2023.2 – Change log and updates (July 12, 2023)

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ArcGIS for Power BI is updated regularly to provide new features, improved speed and usability, and bug fixes. The 2023.2 (July 2023) update is a quality release. Performance improvements, bug fixes, design polishes, and quality of life updates have been made for the following features. 

Please make sure to update to the latest version of Power BI Desktop or restart Power BI Online before checking these cool things out!

As always, please let us know of any improvements or issues you want to chat about!

 

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Theme color change

 

The theme color of ArcGIS for Power BI has been changed to better integrate within the Power BI environment. With the new color scheme, it is much more readable and accessible. Later on this year, we will be looking into adapting to theme changes that occur in Power BI (including custom themes).

 

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ArcGIS for Power BI v2023.2 – New color scheme

 

Basemap gallery settings

 

In the previous releases of ArcGIS for Power BI, the default setting of the basemap gallery was OFF by default. To use the basemap gallery, you had to go to the Format pane to toggle it ON under Map tools. But now, when you add data to ArcGIS for Power BI, the basemap gallery will be triggered to be ON automatically. This saves a few extra steps and improves the user experience and quality of life of the component. Further, it now matches the behavior of ArcGIS for SharePoint and Excel.

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ArcGIS for Power BI v2023.2 – Basemap gallery settings

 

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Bug fixes and polishes

 

 

Bug fixes:

 

  • Fixed an issue where a misleading warning message appeared for ArcGIS users with a correct user type and role when creating a map
  • Fixed an issue where ArcGIS reference layers were automatically filtered to Feature Services only for ArcGIS users
  • Fixed an issue where the Analysis tool was not available when switching from Reading view to Edit mode
  • Fixed an issue where selections were lost when switching between different basemaps with different spatial references
  • Fixed an issue where the color picker didn’t update to the selected color under Labels and Clustering
  • Fixed an issue where the extent was zoomed in too far when filtering a single polygon feature (e.g. boundary)
  • Fixed an issue where Clustering was automatically disabled after removing data from the Color field well
  • Fixed an issue where the Publish and embed check could still pass when adding data to both the Location field well and the XY field wells
  • Fixed an issue where some polygons disappeared when a field consisting of numbers was used for color symbology
  • Fixed an issue where histograms under Color & Size were not displaying correctly
  • Fixed an issue where Location type and Reset to default were not working after switching between pages or publishing reports to Power BI Online
  • Fixed an issue where ArcGIS for Power BI maps were not loading in a published report causing by a Microsoft node
  • Fixed an issue where selections would be failed when selecting more than 250 polygons
  • Fixed an issue where the symbology of the layer did not persist while switching to a different filter and switching back
  • Fixed an issue where selected locations used to be cleared when new time interval appeared for Time slider

 

Design polishes:

 

  • Cleaned up extra tooltips while selection tools were grayed out
  • Added a tooltip to explain the Interact with Power BI Visuals and selecting features on the Power BI data layer

 

Quality of life updates:

 

  • Added the link directing to ArcGIS for Microsoft 365 Overview website when clicking the Esri logo on the map visual
  • Allowed zooming to the selected layers while switching between different layers in the Selection tool
  • Allowed users to adjust symbology size range by entering numbers
  • Enhanced time slider to display the complete time data format
  • Upgraded formatting models to the latest Power BI Visuals API
  • Enhanced Zoom tools to auto hide on the map visual
  • Updated documentation related to selections and time animation run to reflect the current Time slider’s behavior in ArcGIS for Power BI
  • Updated documentation related to sharing across different organizations
  • Updated documentation related to configure cross-origin resources sharing
  • Updated documentation to reflect changes on basemap gallery settings

 

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Besides these cool things above (and so much more to come this year), we are trying our best to make it a better user experience for ArcGIS for Power BI as time goes on. Please feel free to share your ideas (we love those!). Or, if you find anything that is broken or does not make sense, let us know (we love this too)!

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