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March 30, 2026 - Power BI Task Flows and Modeling Updates


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I found one clear in-window product update set that fits your filter: Power BI’s March 18, 2026 feature update. For the other platforms, I did not find qualifying analyst-facing AI/BI feature releases published between March 16 and March 30, 2026, or the public items I found were outside the window or were support/maintenance notes rather than feature updates. (powerbi.microsoft.com)
Looker
- No qualifying updates found in the last 14 days. The public Looker release notes surfaced by Google were last updated January 2, 2026, and the visible feature entries were older than this window. (docs.cloud.google.com)
Power BI
- March 18, 2026: Microsoft published the Power BI March 2026 Feature Summary. (powerbi.microsoft.com)
- AI: The Copilot pane in Reports and Apps got a UI refresh to match the standalone Copilot experience; Microsoft says functionality is unchanged. This is a UX change, not a new analytic capability. (powerbi.microsoft.com)
- AI: The Copilot feedback dialog now lets users attach diagnostics to feedback submissions, which may help support and product triage. (powerbi.microsoft.com)
- AI/reporting: The AI Narrative visual can now auto-refresh when slicer selections change, removing the need to manually refresh the narrative after each filter change. (powerbi.microsoft.com)
- Reporting/workflows: Translytical task flows reached general availability, allowing report users to update records, add data, or trigger workflows from inside reports. Supported writeback targets called out by Microsoft include Fabric SQL databases, warehouses, and lakehouses for files. (powerbi.microsoft.com)
- Reporting/visual design: Modern visual defaults and theme customization improvements entered preview, adding a new default visual style, updated base theme behavior, and reusable structural colors/page sizing in themes. (powerbi.microsoft.com)
- Reporting/tables: Custom totals entered preview, letting authors override a table or matrix total’s aggregation at the visual level without changing the underlying DAX measure. (powerbi.microsoft.com)
- Visualizations: Series label leader lines were added for line charts and related visuals to improve label readability in dense charts. (powerbi.microsoft.com)
- Reporting/filters: Input slicer now supports conditional formatting for text, icons, borders, backgrounds, and accent bars. (powerbi.microsoft.com)
- Modeling: Direct Lake in OneLake reached general availability
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