#powerbi Report to browse and watch sessions from #mbas 2019 using the #powerapp visual

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to participate in the Microsoft Business Application Summit this year – but luckily we can watch all the session via https://community.powerbi.com/t5/MBAS-Gallery/bd-p/MBAS_Gallery

But that would mean I had to leave Power BI Desktop in order to search and watch the videos – and the website also made it hard to see the distribution of sessions between categories.

So, I created this –

And to watch the video from within PowerBI I created a drill through page where I used the PowerApp visual to be able to show the

As none of the Microsoft standard visuals can play videos from within a report – I created a power App to show the video based on the selected video link.

If you want to embed this huge resource of learning material in your own tenant you can download the elements from here

The Desktop file – link

The Power App – link

If you are interested in learning how I scraped the web page for all the relevant data – check out these functions to extract data from pages using CSS query capabilities in the power query function Html.Table

Highly inspired by this blog post by Chris Webb – https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2018/08/30/power-bi-extract-urls-web-page/