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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

Creating Paginated Reports

Microsoft has made great strides to ensure that paginated reports (SSRS-style reports) are first-class citizens in the Power BI universe. Power BI Premium supports such reports, as does the Power BI Report Server (PBIRS). The most recent evidence that Microsoft still embraces paginated reports for Power BI is the announcement of a planned report-building experience within Power BI Desktop for the creation of paginated reports and the Paginated report visual released in May 2021.

At this time, however, paginated reports must still be created in a separate tool, Power BI Report Builder. This recipe demonstrates how to download and install Power BI Report Builder and use this tool to build a paginated report.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, follow these steps:

  1. Download Power BI Report Builder from this location: https://bit.ly/2XOp1G1.
  2. Open the PowerBIReportBuilder.msi file.
  3. Complete the installation using the wizard...