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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)

Controlling interactive filtering between visuals

Power BI report pages are interactive by default with all visuals, excluding slicers, cross-filtered via the selections applied to one visual. While this dynamic filter context is often helpful in exploring and analyzing across dimensions, there's often also a need to exclude certain visuals from this behavior. For example, a high priority measure reflected in a card or KPI visual may be configured to ignore any filter selections from slicers and other visuals on the page. Additionally, rather than the default highlighting of cross-filtered visuals, it can be beneficial to exclusively display the related values in other visuals.

In this recipe, an example report page is provided, containing the three visual interaction behaviors: filter, highlight, and none.

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