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Learn Power BI

You're reading from   Learn Power BI A comprehensive, step-by-step guide for beginners to learn real-world business intelligence

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801811958
Length 458 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Greg Deckler Greg Deckler
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1:The Basics
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Business Intelligence and Power BI FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Planning Projects with Power BI 4. Section 2:The Desktop
5. Chapter 3: Up and Running with Power BI Desktop 6. Chapter 4: Connecting to and Transforming Data 7. Chapter 5: Creating Data Models and Calculations 8. Chapter 6: Unlocking Insights 9. Chapter 7: Creating the Final Report 10. Section 3:The Service
11. Chapter 8: Publishing and Sharing 12. Chapter 9: Using Reports in the Power BI Service 13. Chapter 10: Understanding Dashboards, Apps, Goals, and Security 14. Chapter 11: Refreshing Content 15. Section 4:The Future
16. Chapter 12: Deploying, Governing, and Adopting Power BI 17. Chapter 13: Putting Your Knowledge to Use 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with goals

Goals and scorecards are relatively new types of objects in the Power BI service that allow users to track key metrics against business objectives. Goals provide something for teams to measure their progress toward achieving business objectives against, with the ability to share updates and analyze detailed data when necessary. Goals can be organized into scorecards that incorporate content from multiple workspaces in order to provide a single window into the health of an organization.

Goals require a Power BI Premium capacity or a Premium Per User (PPU) license. Let's explore how you create and use goals and scorecards in the service.

Creating scorecards and goals

To create a new scorecard, do the following:

  1. Navigate to a Premium workspace (designated with a diamond icon).
  2. Click Goals in the Navigation pane.
  3. Click the New scorecard button in the upper right of the canvas. This displays the Create scorecard dialog, as shown in the following...
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