Technical requirements

If you didn’t install Power BI Desktop in Chapter 2, you will want to have it installed before going through the exercises in this chapter. You can download Power BI Desktop at https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/.

This chapter’s code examples can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Extending-Business-Central-with-the-Power-Platform.

Exercise for creating a Power BI report and dashboard

K&S Solutions requires a Power BI report to manage Customer Credit Limits effectively. This chapter will focus on creating a comprehensive Customer Credit Limit report and a corresponding dashboard. The report that you’ll generate in this chapter will be utilized in Chapter 10 to integrate a Power Apps app, enabling users to review customer activities, modify Credit Limits, and block customers when necessary:

Figure 9.1 – Power BI data sources

We have the report layouts and lots...