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Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016

You're reading from   Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Excel, Jet Reports, and MS Power BI with GP 2016

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786467614
Length 354 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Belinda Allen Belinda Allen
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Mark Polino Mark Polino
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Data from Dynamics GP 2016 to Excel 2016 2. The Ultimate GP to Excel Tool – Refreshable Excel Reports FREE CHAPTER 3. Pivot Tables – The Basic Building Blocks 4. Making Your Data Visually Appealing and Meaningful with Formatting, Conditional Formatting, and Charts 5. Drilling Back to the Source Data and Other Cool Stuff 6. Introducing Jet Reports Express 7. Building Financial Reports in Jet Express for GP 8. Introducing Microsoft Power BI 9. Getting Data in Power BI 10. Creating Power BI Visuals 11. Using the Power BI Service 12. Sharing and Refreshing Data and Dashboards in Power BI 13. Using the Power Query Editor 14. Bonus Chapter Index

Chapter 4. Making Your Data Visually Appealing and Meaningful with Formatting, Conditional Formatting, and Charts

Now that we have our data elements for a dashboard, we'll start pulling the pieces together and format them. When presenting on dashboards, I often talk about the dashboard in my car. Yes, I know, so does everyone else, but I have a different twist on it. I talk specifically about the gas tank gauge. If it wasn't there, how often would you buy gas, or worse, run out of gas? No doubt, we'd all carry around a canister of spare gas, just in case. With the normal gas gauge of empty to full, you can figure out how much gas you have with a little math, provided you know how big your tank is. Trust me, nobody wants me driving while doing math in my head. Would that be a Driving While Ciphering (DWC)? Anyway, with the newer visuals of how far I can go with the gas I have in my tank, based on my average driving, I can make informed decisions. That's what...

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