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Mastering Microsoft Power BI – Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Gregory Deckler, Brett Powell
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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)
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Index

Mobile-optimized dashboards

Just like the mobile layout view in Power BI Desktop described in Chapter 8, Applying Advanced Analytics, the Power BI service provides a Mobile layout to customize a mobile-optimized layout for dashboards. With a Mobile layout configured for a dashboard, the specific tiles, sizes, and order of tiles defined for the Mobile layout are presented to a user when the dashboard is accessed via the Power BI mobile app.

The Mobile layout is accessed via the drop-down Edit menu in the dashboard header as shown in Figure 9.29:

Figure 9.29: Dashboard phone view

The same drag and resize options available in the mobile layout for Power BI Desktop are also available for the dashboard. In Figure 9.30, the most important tiles from the Global Sales dashboard are positioned at the top and less important tiles are unpinned:

Figure 9.30: Phone view of dashboard in Power BI service

Power BI saves the mobile layout automatically and the defined...