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How-to guides, settings walkthroughs and release notes for our Power BI custom visuals, written by the developer who builds them.

Power BI org chart when someone has two managers

How-to

Sep 29, 20266 min read

Power BI org chart when someone has two managers

Why tree visuals and PATH break when a node has two parents, the edge table that fixes the data model, and how to draw it in Power BI.

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Power BI custom visual development: what it takes to build one

How-to

Oct 5, 20267 min read

Power BI custom visual development: what it takes to build one

When a custom Power BI visual is worth building, what the work involves (SDK, data roles, certification, packaging), how it gets to users, and what to ask before you hire.

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Custom visual missing from Power BI PDF export or email subscription

How-to

Oct 5, 20266 min read

Custom visual missing from Power BI PDF export or email subscription

Why a custom visual shows an error symbol in a subscription email or blocks Export to PDF and PowerPoint, and a checklist to find which of the usual causes it is.

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Power BI Gantt chart with dependencies and critical path

How-to

Oct 5, 20267 min read

Power BI Gantt chart with dependencies and critical path

How to model task dependencies for a Power BI Gantt chart (predecessor column, link types, lag), how the critical path is calculated, and when to compute it in your model.

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Power BI candlestick chart without weekend gaps

How-to

Oct 5, 20266 min read

Power BI candlestick chart without weekend gaps

Why Power BI stock and OHLC charts show gaps for weekends and holidays, the built-in fix for line charts, and how to get candlesticks that close the gaps and check your data.

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How-to

Sep 29, 20266 min read

How to Read a Funnel as a Sankey in Power BI

A funnel chart shows how many people you lost at each stage, not which channel lost them. Here is how to shape the data and read the same funnel as a Sankey.

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How Zentrix Power BI visual licensing works

How-to

Sep 29, 20266 min read

How Zentrix Power BI visual licensing works

Free in Power BI Desktop, licensed in the Power BI Service. Who needs a seat, what unlicensed viewers and editors see, and how to buy only for the people who open the report.

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What Microsoft certification means for a Power BI custom visual

How-to

Sep 29, 20265 min read

What Microsoft certification means for a Power BI custom visual

What Microsoft actually checks before a custom visual is certified, what it unlocks (PowerPoint and PDF export, email subscriptions, locked-down orgs), and how to check.

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Power BI Gantt: parent rollups, baselines and critical path

How-to

Sep 29, 20266 min read

Power BI Gantt: parent rollups, baselines and critical path

How summary-task dates, progress and status should roll up from child tasks, how baselines and the critical path work, and the mistakes that make a Gantt lie.

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Network Graph layout modes in Power BI, and which to pick

Settings explained

Sep 29, 20265 min read

Network Graph layout modes in Power BI, and which to pick

All six layout modes in Zentrix Network Graph (Force, Concentric, Circular, Grid, Tree, Geo), what each is for, and the settings that go with them.

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The visuals

Free to build with in Power BI Desktop

Every Zentrix visual is fully unlocked in Desktop. A licence is only needed once a report is shared in the Power BI Service.

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