Changelog

Our latest BI Book release is live. Connecting your own Power BI capacity is now simpler, more flexible and more secure.

Here's what's new:

• Bring your own capacity: a redesigned setup and more control over where your reports live. Details below.

• Files public API: fixes to the endpoints.

• Smaller improvements across the product.

Coming in mid-October: the BI Book onboarding tour. A brand new guided tour to help new users find their way around BI Book. It's built into this release but switched off while we finish the tour content. We'll let you know when it goes live.

Bring your own capacity: what's changed

✅Easier activation. Connecting your own Power BI tenant now takes just two steps.

✅Use as many workspaces as you need. Previously, bring your own capacity was limited to a single workspace. BI Book now keeps track of which tenant each report lives in, so you can use reports from any number of workspaces.

✅Choose where each report lives. When you add or update a report, you can now mark it as a report in your own tenant. Reports without this setting keep running in the BI Book tenant, just as before.

✅Clear feedback when something's missing. If BI Book can't access a report you're adding, for example because access rights are missing, you'll see an error message straight away. No more guessing why a report won't load.

✅Smoother report loading. We've reworked how reports from your own tenant are loaded, making the process more efficient behind the scenes.

Read more at Bring your own capacity - BI Book.

We are pleased to announce that the new Planning package has been published to Microsoft AppSource.

• It will be automatically updated in your reports within approximately two weeks.

The new package introduces new features:

✨Dynamic Column Headers from Measures. Check out the tutorial here.

✨Inline Planning Cell Adjustment. Allows you to adjust existing values directly within a planning cell upon double-click, modifying the current value (e.g., increase/decrease or apply a delta) instead of re-entering it from scratch.

✨Keyboard Range Selection with Shift + Arrow Keys. Enables you to select a contiguous range of cells using the keyboard by holding Shift and pressing the navigation (arrow) keys. This supports faster, more precise range selection without relying on the mouse, improving productivity for users who perform frequent multi-cell edits, formatting, or data entry operations. See full list of keyboard tricks: Plan Faster in BI Book Planning: Keyboard Shortcuts That Save You Time - BI Book.

✨Suggestion Button Visibility Control. Similar to other buttons, you can now hide “Suggestions” button from the top of the visual. The button’s visibility is enabled by default.

Additionally, it contains the following improvements:

✅The problem with average calculations and input to totals/subtotals has been resolved.

✅Comment added on a cell ignores the dimension selection (fixed)

✅The issue where row header widths were incorrect when the tabular layout was selected has been fixed

✅When a user switched to another slicer selection without saving changes first, the unsaved edits were incorrectly kept and could be saved to the wrong selection. Corrected Behavior:
Unsaved changes are now discarded when changing to another slicer selection.

✅Arrow key navigation not working after copying a cell (now fixed)

✅Incorrect values in Excel export when grand total columns are positioned on the right (fixed)

We are pleased to announce that the new Planning package has been published to Microsoft AppSource.

• It will be automatically updated in your reports within approximately two weeks.

The new package introduces new features:

• Saving calculated columns to database. Learn more at BI Book Planning - Calculated Columns

• New formatting option: tabular layout. Learn more at Planning layouts - BI Book

Additionally, it contains the following improvements:

✅Fixed: slicer filters on Planning rows now refresh immediately, without needing to switch report pages back and forth to trigger the update.

✅Improved: comment markers now display only on the value-measure cell, instead of also appearing on helper cells.

✅Improved: key board navigation experience. Check out this article for more details Plan Faster in BI Book Planning: Keyboard Shortcuts That Save You Time - BI Book

✅Improved: users now see a clear error message when their API token is invalid, instead of a generic or missing error.

✅Fixed: undo actions now fully clear cell contents, instead of leaving residual data behind.

✅Fixed: jumping bug with multilevel column hierarchy.

✅Fixed: right-click menu is now available on the grand total row.

✅Fixed: Hovering over locked grand total cells no longer turns the font white, making the text unreadable against the background.