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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

Creating and using apps

Apps are a method of bundling multiple dashboards and reports into a single object that is then published and shared within the organization. Hence, instead of sharing individual dashboards and reports or granting permissions to an entire workspace, apps allow the author to choose exactly what content to bundle and share, providing an effective means of organizing shared content and controlling access.

Creating an app

Before we create an actual app, let's add some content to our workspace so that we can understand how workspace objects can be included and excluded from our app. We will create an additional dashboard and report within our workspace by simply duplicating our existing dashboard and report.

To create a copy of the existing dashboard, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the existing dashboard by expanding the workspace in the Navigation pane and clicking on the dashboard that appears under the Dashboards heading.
  2. From the File...
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