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How to Use Power BI Drillthrough
Today, we’re going to explore one of the most powerful features in Power BI: drillthrough. This feature is a game-changer when it comes to data exploration and storytelling. So, let’s get started!
Microsoft Ignite Must-Attend Sessions: A Caf2Code Guide
Microsoft Ignite 2023’s agenda is brimming with sessions that are essential for anyone interested in AI and Microsoft’s latest innovations. Today we share our top five recommendations for sessions you must attend.
Becoming an AI-Powered Organization with Microsoft Copilot
November 15, Wednesday | 12:45 PM – 1:35 PM EST
Join Rajesh Jha, along with Jared Spataro and other leaders to see how Microsoft Copilot will unlock productivity and transform business processes for everyone across functions and industries.
Implementation Partner Case Study: From 3 Years to 3 Weeks – How We Revitalized a Stalled Dynamics 365 Finance Report
In this case study, we delve into a complex challenge: completing a Dynamics 365 Finance report that had languished for three years. Utilizing our specialized skills as an Implementation Partner, we successfully delivered the business-critical report in just 21 days. This study outlines the systematic approaches and methods that made this rapid turnaround possible, proving the value and efficacy of choosing an experienced Microsoft Solutions Partner for Dynamics 365 Finance.
Paginated Reports 101 Part 5: Getting your Report Print & View Ready
Paginated report guides will often start by setting up the report and body prior to building out the “meat” of the report. If a report’s precise dimensions and orientation are already determined, this is a sensible way to go. Most of the time, however, I find that I have some wiggle room. The structure of the main report body may work better on legal-sized paper rather than letter-sized paper, or it may fit more cleanly into a landscape orientation rather than a portrait orientation.
Paginated Reports 101 Part 4: Adding Parameters and Filters to your Paginated Report
Multiple components in the Power BI ecosystem are referred to as parameters and filters. For this reason, I’m going to be heavily qualifying and color-coding throughout this blog post to make it a little easier for you to follow.
Understanding parameters, filters, and slicers in the Power BI ecosystem:
The parameters and filters you’ll build in Power BI Report Builder serve a similar purpose to slicers and filters used in Power BI Desktop.
Part 3: How to Set Up your Paginated Report Dataset, Using a Power BI Dataset as your Data Source
Woof, try saying that three times fast.
Our last blog post went through the similarly-named data elements in Power BI Paginated Reports, Power BI Analytical Reports, and the Power BI Service. These can be very confusing, even if you’ve carefully color-coded the different types as I have in this blog series. If you’re baffled just reading the title of this post, I recommend you go one post back before reading this one.
If not, let’s jump into creating a Paginated Report Dataset!
Part 2: How to use a power bi dataset as your paginated report’s data source
Using a Power BI Dataset as your Power BI Report’s data source? Even the title of this blog post is confusing!
Stay with me—I promise it will start making more sense from here. Let’s start by breaking down how information from a .pbix file becomes a dataset in the Power BI Service, and then we’ll see how it fits into a paginated report in Power BI Report Builder.
Power BI Desktop software is what you use to create (what I refer to as) a “standard” Power BI report. Most people just call these Power BI reports, since their paginated report cousins were tacked on to the Power BI Service several years after Power BI was launched.
Part 1: When to use a Power BI Paginated report instead of a standard Power BI Report.
If you’re a veteran user of the kinds of Power BI reports built using Power BI Desktop, you’re used to hearing about all the wonderful things Power BI can do, complete with exciting new updates every month. Power BI paginated reports get much less attention. From a marketing standpoint this makes perfect sense; Power BI analytical reports create beautiful, highly interactive data visualization reports that are great for helping end-users engage with their data, explore it, perform what-if analysis, and present it to others. Paginated reports? They don’t change much, and their main claim to fame is that they print off well.
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