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Power BI October 2026 Feature Summary

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Table of Contents Copilot and AI Create Power BI reports with custom visuals using skills for Fabric (Generally Available) Reporting Gantt chart (Preview) List slicer with dropdown option (Preview) Chart plot area background color (Generally Available) Auto-expand hierarchy axis with field parameter support (Generally Available) Personal bookmarks keep column widths (Generally Available) Semantic models More accurate surge protection with semantic models That’s a wrap! Copilot and AI   Create Power BI reports with custom visuals using skills for Fabric (Generally Available) The Power BI Report Authoring skill now extends natural-language report authoring to custom visuals, helping teams create reports that meet specialized business and design requirements with less manual configuration. Ask the agent to add a visual, bind it to report data, apply formatting, and validate the visualization. The skill can use supported custom visuals already added to a report, including visuals impo...

How to get data from snowflake to Power BI

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Supported capabilities Import DirectQuery (Power BI semantic models) Advanced options Specify a text value to use as Role name Relationship columns Connection timeout in seconds Command timeout in seconds Database Native SQL statement Connect from Power Query Desktop To make the connection to a Snowflake computing warehouse, take the following steps: Select Get Data from the Home ribbon in Power BI Desktop, select Database from the categories on the left, select Snowflake , and then select Connect . In the Snowflake window that appears, enter the name of your Snowflake server in Server and the name of your Snowflake computing warehouse in Warehouse . Optionally, enter values in any advanced options that you want to use to modify the connection query, such as a text value to use as a Role name or a command timeout. Select OK . To sign i...