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Mastering Microsoft Power BI

By : Brett Powell
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Book Image

Mastering Microsoft Power BI

5 (1)
By: Brett Powell

Overview of this book

This book is intended for business intelligence professionals responsible for the design and development of Power BI content as well as managers, architects and administrators who oversee Power BI projects and deployments. The chapters flow from the planning of a Power BI project through the development and distribution of content to the administration of Power BI for an organization. BI developers will learn how to create sustainable and impactful Power BI datasets, reports, and dashboards. This includes connecting to data sources, shaping and enhancing source data, and developing an analytical data model. Additionally, top report and dashboard design practices are described using features such as Bookmarks and the Power KPI visual. BI managers will learn how Power BI’s tools work together such as with the On-premises data gateway and how content can be staged and securely distributed via Apps. Additionally, both the Power BI Report Server and Power BI Premium are reviewed. By the end of this book, you will be confident in creating effective charts, tables, reports or dashboards for any kind of data using the tools and techniques in Microsoft Power BI.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Email Subscriptions

Power BI also provides Email Subscriptions for Power BI Pro users of both reports and dashboards. With Email Subscriptions configured in the Power BI service, a user is sent a snapshot of either the report page or the dashboard canvas as well as a link to the content in the Power BI service. In the following service. In the following screenshot, a user with a Power BI Pro license has accessed the Global Sales (dashboard) described earlier in this chapter from within a Power BI app:

Subscribe to dashboard

Clicking the subscribe icon shown in the preceding image opens the following dialog to confirm the email subscription:

Dashboard Email Subscription

With the yellow slider set to On, selecting Save and close at the bottom of the dialog enables the email subscription to the dashboard. An email containing an image of the current state of the dashboard and a...