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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

Designing Mobile Layouts

Power BI reports can be optimized for consumption on mobile devices via the Mobile layout view in Power BI Desktop. This layout allows users accessing reports through the Power BI mobile applications to more easily view and interact with the most important content of these reports on iOS, Android, or Windows mobile devices. Given the importance of the mobile experience and the unique design considerations for reports with multiple pages, optimizing Power BI reports for mobile access is essential.

In this recipe, the Europe and United Kingdom report pages of the example report provided in the first recipe of this chapter are configured with the Mobile layout. Additional details for optimizing Power BI dashboards are included in the There's more... section.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, follow these steps:

  1. Open the CH4_R9.pbix file and save the file as CH4_R10.pbix.
  2. Switch to the Scratch page and use Ctrl-A and then...