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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

Enhancing Reports

There are many report features that can add greater context and enhance the self-service data exploration experience. Three such features are Tooltips, Tooltip pages, and Drill through report pages.

In this recipe, we walk through the using Tooltips, Tooltip pages, and Drill through report pages to enhance our report.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, follow these steps:

  1. Open the CH4_R7.pbix file and save the file as CH4_R8.pbix.
  2. Switch to the Scratch page and use Ctrl-A then Delete to remove any visuals.
  3. Check the Filters pane and ensure that only the Europe filter is active.

How to Enhance Reports

To implement this recipe, use the following steps:

  1. Select the Germany page.
  2. Select the Shape map visualization.
  3. In the Fields well, add the Internet Net Sales, Internet Margin %, and Internet Sales Per Customer measures from the Internet Sales table to the Tooltips field.
  4. Hover over...