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MadelynM
by Databricks Employee
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[Recap] Data + AI Summit 2024 - Warehousing & Analytics | Improve performance and increase insights

Here's your Data + AI Summit 2024 - Warehousing & Analytics recap as you use intelligent data warehousing to improve performance and increase your organization’s productivity with analytics, dashboards and insights.  Keynote: Data Warehouse presente...

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AI BI Dashboards
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oyslan
by New Contributor II
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Databricks excel plugin error

Hi, i have an error with the excel pluging.It was working fine until today. I can login and browse the catalog but I get an error when trying to query any data. It seems like its sending in a blank warehouse id. I have choosen a warehouse and its run...

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emma_s
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Hi All,   Just wanted to provide a proper answer to this thread. This was a known bug on Databricks' side, a recent UI infrastructure change caused the Excel Add-In to send a blank warehouseId in query requests, even though the warehouse was properly...

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emily02
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Resolved! Does combo chart have group by color function ?

Does combo chart have group by color function by specific field (type)?  Like Line Chart: the line will perfectly split into multiple lines of different colors, with each line representing a distinct Type.Bar Chart: The original single bar will also ...

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Ashwin_DSA
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Hi @emily02, No. You can't. Combo charts in AI/BI Dashboards do not support Tableau-style grouping by a categorical field such as Type. That means a combo chart can combine bar and line series and colour by metric series, but it will not automaticall...

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weerasa
by New Contributor II
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Resolved! How to avoid excel automatic data formatting when loading from excel plugin

Excel suddenly started automatically formatting data (convert everything to text) when loading from the new Azure Databricks Excel plug-in. I can still see my default formatting in the Databricks sideload.  Just wondering if this behaviour was caused...

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weerasa
New Contributor II
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 Hi Emma,Thank you for your reply! I have checked this last Friday, and it has been fixed! Thanks for your support! 

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amekojc
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! How to show percent of total that recognizes global filter selections

I'm trying to implement a percent of total measure in pivot table. I succeeded in creating a measure using the below formula.However, I want this measure to recognize global filter selections. For example, I want to show emissions share by category. ...

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Ashwin_DSA
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Hi @amekojc, The approach in your screenshot is the fixed LOD pattern, where you first define a total such as SUM(emissions) OVER () and then divide the grouped value by that total. That approach works for a basic per cent-of-total calculation, but i...

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vvanag
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Embedding a dashboard in Databricks

Hi, I try to embed my dashboard in Databricks Notebook as some_html = """ <iframe src="...." width="100%" height="600" frameborder="0"> </iframe> """ displayHTML(some_html) then I get an error of the form: This dashboard is unavailablePlease...

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Ashwin_DSA
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Hi @vvanag, What you’re trying to do is understandable, but I wouldn’t recommend embedding an AI/BI dashboard back into a Databricks notebook with displayHTML and a raw iframe. The documented embedding path for AI/BI Dashboards is to embed them in an...

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vvanag
by New Contributor III
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Problem rendering HTML in IPywidgets

The below code works fine in Colab/VSCodium/JupyterNotebookimport ipywidgets as widgets from IPython.display import display, HTML output = widgets.Output() with output: display(HTML(some_html)) outputBut it does not work in Databrickstestme.ht...

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Ashwin_DSA
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Hi @vvanag, What you’re seeing is expected to some extent in Databricks Notebooks. Databricks supports ipywidgets, but it doesn’t guarantee full Jupyter or Colab parity, and there are a few documented limitations on how widgets render and behave in n...

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Diegol1337
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Databricks Dashboards - display totals in Tables

I was wondering if anyone has been able to display totals in a Table/Pivot visualization? Similar to what is possible in other BI tools?If I have a table with a bunch of rows and one of the columns is Total Cost, I want to be able to show a Total at ...

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Vikash1819
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Hi,Is there a way to add a grand total to a table visualisation in a Databricks dashboard, based on the latest updates?In a pivot table, I can add a grand total row; however, the issue is that doing so compromises the sorting functionality.

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vinay_ba
by New Contributor II
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How to programatically extract rendered or computed data from AIBI Lakeview dashboard widget via API

Hi,We're building an automated data quality testing framework for AI/BI (Lakeview) dashboards. Our goal is to validate that dashboard widgets display correct data without using UI automation (Selenium/Playwright don't work reliably due to React dynam...

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vinay_ba
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Thanks for u detailed answer on the dashboard validation testing. Hi,We also need to perform performance testing and concurrency testing of AI/BI (Lakeview) dashboards at the browser level — measuring actual page load times, time-to-interactive, and ...

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carlos_tasayco
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Resolved! refresh power BI without premium, fabric instead

I have a job where I am refreshing my power bi semantic model, now my commpany change the workspace from Premium to Fabric, I am receiving this error message:Run failed with error message System error occurred during execution of task Power BI Task: ...

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szymon_dybczak
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Hi @carlos_tasayco , According to docs:“Any workspace migrated from a PPU environment to a non-PPU environment (such as Premium or shared environments) must have its datasets refreshed before use. Reports opened after such migrations without being re...

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Bahjat
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Customizing the order of fields in the hover over of visualizations

Hi team, My work involves building dashboards that provide key insights to stakeholders. I am currently using the AI/BI dashboard functionality and seemed to have hit a limitation that I'm hoping someone can help me work around. One of the visualizat...

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Bahjat
New Contributor III
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Thanks both! appreciate the feedback.

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Snookie
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Text on Dashboards changing color automatically.

Hi,The text color on all my dashboards widgets are changing automatically resulting in users not being able to see the text at all. is there a current bug around this, and when will it be resolved?

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balajij8
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You can enforce custom colors instead of default Auto Colors for Font Color, Background & Border. You can set them manually (set colors based on users request) instead of leaving it to Auto at the widget & dashboard level. You can publish to push the...

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greengil
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Lakeflow Connect for Jira - Questions

So we got the Lakeflow Connect set up with Jira working and so far so good.  But when running the ETL pipeline to inject Jira data into Databricks, there's one table (isssue_with_deletes) fails due to the following error (partially shown).  We have f...

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GaneshI
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Great question — and your confusion is completely understandable. Let me clarify exactly what's happening here.Root CauseYour diagnosis is correct. Issue deletes are only tracked if the authenticating user (i.e., the Jira account used during the OAut...

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playnicekids
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Resolved! Recommended local development workflow for dashboard CI/CD with environment-specific catalog/schema?

Hi all,I’m trying to implement CI/CD for Databricks AI/BI dashboards using Declarative Automation Bundles, following guidance published by Databricks.The documentation recommends exporting dashboards as .lvdash.json using databricks bundle generate, ...

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stbjelcevic
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hi @playnicekids , You've hit a known dev-UX gap. dataset_catalog and dataset_schema on the dashboard resource are the intended parameterization mechanism, but they only resolve at bundle deploy time, which is why workspace editing of an unqualified ...

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azl
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! How to extract a full node from an xml string using sql

I have an XML string in my table and I want to extract a full node from it using SQL functions, without needing to parse it in full i.e. from '<a><b><c>c1</c></b></a>' I want '<b><c>c1</c></b>' (preferably) or '<c>c1</c>'.What little I can find that ...

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azl
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Thanks very much.  I had over-simplified my example perhaps, and got stuck on the idea of using xml functions, particularly because I'm converting existing SQL from another DB, and wasn't being open-minded enough.The actual data has multiple instance...

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nafikazi
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Resolved! Steps to become a Databricks Consultant.

Hello professionals and seasoned functional consultants,I recently completed the Databricks Data Engineer Associate certification and have also finished multiple courses from Udemy, Databricks learning events, and Alex The Analyst / Analytics Builder...

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nafikazi
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@Rishabh-Pandey Thank you. It means a lot.

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