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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Greg Deckler, Brett Powell
Book Image

Microsoft Power BI Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Greg Deckler, Brett Powell

Overview of this book

The complete everyday reference guide to Power BI, written by an internationally recognized Power BI expert duo, is back with a new and updated edition. Packed with revised practical recipes, Microsoft Power BI Cookbook, Second Edition, helps you navigate Power BI tools and advanced features. It also demonstrates the use of end-to-end solutions that integrate those features to get the most out of Power BI. With the help of the recipes in this book, you’ll gain advanced design and development insight, practical tips, and guidance on enhancing existing Power BI projects. The updated recipes will equip you with everything you need to know to implement evergreen frameworks that will stay relevant as Power BI updates. You’ll familiarize yourself with Power BI development tools and services by going deep into the data connectivity, transformation, modeling, visualization, and analytical capabilities of Power BI. By the end of this book, you’ll make the most of Power BI’s functional programming languages of DAX and M and deliver powerful solutions to common business intelligence challenges.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Sharing Content with Colleagues

Power BI apps are the recommended content distribution method for large corporate BI deployments, but for small teams and informal collaboration scenarios, sharing dashboards and reports provides a simple alternative. By sharing a dashboard, the recipient obtains read access to the dashboard, the reports supporting the dashboards tiles, and immediate visibility of any changes in the dashboard. Additionally, dashboards and reports can be shared with Power BI Pro users external to an organization via security groups and distribution lists, and Power BI Pro users can leverage Analyze in Excel as well as the Power BI mobile apps to access the shared data. Moreover, Power BI Free users can consume dashboards and reports shared with them from Power BI Premium capacity.

In this recipe, a Power BI dashboard is shared with a colleague as well as a contact in an external organization. Guidance on configuring and managing shared dashboards and additional considerations...