How to create paginated reports

To implement this recipe, use the following steps:

1. Publish the newly saved report out to the Power BI service.
2. Switch to the Scratch page.
3. Select the Paginated report visual from the Visualizations pane.
4. Select the Create paginated report button.
5. In the Choose the data you want to connect dialog, choose the Creating Paginated Reports semantic model and click the Create paginated report button.
6. In the Customers table choose the Customer Name, Location, # Children, and # Cars columns.
7. In the ribbon, choose File and then Save. Save the report with the name Customers.
8. Use the dropdown in the ribbon to change mode from Editing to Viewing.

Figure 4.58: Mode selection for paginated reports in the service

9. Use the page navigation controls on the Home tab of the ribbon to navigate the report. There are 857 pages in the report.

Figure 4.59: Pagination controls

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