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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

Publishing Apps

Apps in Power BI are collections of related dashboards and reports from a single workspace focused on a given subject area. Apps are the recommended distribution method for larger solutions involving several distinct reporting artifacts and targeting groups of end users who only need read access.

In this recipe, we demonstrate how to create and publish an app in the Power BI service.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, complete the first recipe Building a Dashboard in Chapter 5, Working in the Service.

How to do it…

To implement this recipe, use the following steps:

  1. In the Power BI service, select a workspace, such as the workspace containing the North American Sales dashboard created in Chapter 5, Working in the Service, Building a Dashboard.
  2. Toggle datasets to No and all other items to Yes in the Include in app column.

    Figure 12.29: Workspace contents

  3. Click the Create app button.
  4. On the...