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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide Build dashboards and visualizations to make your data come to life

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138221
Length 202 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Manuel Quintana Manuel Quintana
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Mitchell Pearson Mitchell Pearson
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Devin Knight Devin Knight
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Brian Knight Brian Knight
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Usability enhancements

Usability enhancements are those enhancements that can significantly improve the overall user experience when interacting with the data model. In order to ensure a successful handoff and adoption of the work you have done, it is important to not overlook these rather basic improvements.

In this section, we are going to cover the following usability enhancements:

  1. Hiding tables and columns
  2. Renaming tables and columns
  3. Changing the default summarization property
  4. How to display one column but sort by another
  5. Setting the data category of fields
  6. How to create hierarchies

Hiding tables and columns

Some tables are available in the data model simply in a support capacity, and would never be used in a report...

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