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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide Bring your data to life through data modeling, visualization, digital storytelling, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800561571
Length 296 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Bradley Schacht Bradley Schacht
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Devin Knight Devin Knight
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Erin Ostrowsky Erin Ostrowsky
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Mitchell Pearson Mitchell Pearson
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Importing Data Options 2. Data Transformation Strategies FREE CHAPTER 3. Building the Data Model 4. Leveraging DAX 5. Visualizing Data 6. Digital Storytelling with Power BI 7. Using a Cloud Deployment with the Power BI Service 8. Data Cleansing in the Cloud with Dataflows 9. On-Premises Solutions with Power BI Report Server 10. Other Books You May Enjoy
11. Index

Configuring drill through

In Chapter 5, Visualizing Data, you saw the power of filtering to allow a single visual to provide many different views of the data. For instance, a Bar chart showing all sales could also show sales by year if cross-filtered by a date Slicer. You also saw how the filter pane could be applied to visuals on a single page or across the entire report. Up to this point, those were the only two options available. The Drill through feature allows users to navigate from one report visual to another report page while maintaining the filter context of the visual. A common example of the use of Drill through is going from a summary to a detail page. A summary page may contain several visualizations for sales data all aggregated at the country level. One of those could be a Pie chart showing total sales broken down by country. While this can be useful, many users will want access to more detailed information, such as all the sales that happened in a particular country...

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