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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

Working with templates

Power BI templates can be created from Power BI Desktop files as a means of providing users and other report authors with access to pre-defined metadata, such as M queries, DAX measures, model relationships, and report visualizations. As the template files do not contain actual data, they are very lightweight and, for import mode models, data is only retrieved when the template is opened. Additionally, if query parameters have been configured, a user interface is provided for entering parameter values, and these parameters can be integrated with the source queries and other components of the dataset.

In this recipe, a parameter and supporting query are added to a Power BI Desktop file to support the distribution of a Power BI template.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, follow these steps:

  1. Download CH7_R3_Start.pbix from the following GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Microsoft-Power-BI-Cookbook-Second-Edition...