Book Image

Mastering Microsoft Power BI – Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Gregory Deckler, Brett Powell
4.5 (2)
Book Image

Mastering Microsoft Power BI – Second Edition - Second Edition

4.5 (2)
By: Gregory Deckler, Brett Powell

Overview of this book

Mastering Microsoft Power BI, Second Edition, provides an advanced understanding of Power BI to get the most out of your data and maximize business intelligence. This updated edition walks through each essential phase and component of Power BI, and explores the latest, most impactful Power BI features. Using best practices and working code examples, you will connect to data sources, shape and enhance source data, and develop analytical data models. You will also learn how to apply custom visuals, implement new DAX commands and paginated SSRS-style reports, manage application workspaces and metadata, and understand how content can be staged and securely distributed via Power BI apps. Furthermore, you will explore top report and interactive dashboard design practices using features such as bookmarks and the Power KPI visual, alongside the latest capabilities of Power BI mobile applications and self-service BI techniques. Additionally, important management and administration topics are covered, including application lifecycle management via Power BI pipelines, the on-premises data gateway, and Power BI Premium capacity. By the end of this Power BI book, you will be confident in creating sustainable and impactful charts, tables, reports, and dashboards with any kind of data using Microsoft Power BI.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
16
Other Books You May Enjoy
17
Index

Dashboard tiles

Most dashboard tiles are created in the Power BI service by pinning a visual in a report to a new or existing dashboard in the same workspace. However, dashboard tiles can also be created by adding a tile directly from the dashboard itself and by pinning from an Excel workbook or Report Server report.

With a report open in the Power BI service, hovering over the top-right corner of a visual exposes the Pin visual icon, as shown in Figure 9.13:

Figure 9.13: Pin visual icon for report visual

Once pinned to the dashboard, several options are available for configuring tiles depending on the type of tile and the content it contains. In the Global and Europe Sales dashboards described previously, a subtitle was added to each tile (for example, France) and custom links were applied to allow direct navigation from the Global dashboard to the Europe dashboard.

In addition, for the top, left-most visual, the Display last refresh time setting was enabled...