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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

By : Author Test, Brett Powell
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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

By: Author Test, Brett Powell

Overview of this book

Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence and analytics platform consisting of applications and services designed to provide coherent, visual and interactive insights of data. This book will provide thorough, technical examples of using all primary Power BI tools and features as well as demonstrate high impact end-to-end solutions that leverage and integrate these technologies and services. Get familiar with Power BI development tools and services, go deep into the data connectivity and transformation, modeling, visualization and analytical capabilities of Power BI, and see Power BI’s functional programming languages of DAX and M come alive to deliver powerful solutions to address common, challenging scenarios in business intelligence. This book will excite and empower you to get more out of Power BI via detailed recipes, advanced design and development tips, and guidance on enhancing existing Power BI projects.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Building email subscriptions into Power BI deployments

Power BI reports and dashboards can be scheduled for delivery to user email accounts via subscriptions. Once a subscription is configured in the Power BI Service, Power BI will send an updated snapshot of the dashboard or report page to the user email account, along with a link to access this content in Power BI. Subscription emails are generated based on changes to the source dataset, such as daily scheduled refreshes and depending on the type of connection method used by the source dataset, the frequency of email deliveries can be defined for the subscription.

This recipe walks through the process of configuring and managing report and dashboard subscriptions. Additional details on current limitations such as custom visuals, published Power BI Apps, and alternative email addresses are included within the recipe and the There...