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Mastering Microsoft Power BI – Second Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Microsoft Power BI – Second Edition Expert techniques to create interactive insights for effective data analytics and business intelligence

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801811484
Length 712 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Greg Deckler Greg Deckler
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Planning Power BI Projects FREE CHAPTER 2. Preparing Data Sources 3. Connecting to Sources and Transforming Data with M 4. Designing Import, DirectQuery, and Composite Data Models 5. Developing DAX Measures and Security Roles 6. Planning Power BI Reports 7. Creating and Formatting Visualizations 8. Applying Advanced Analytics 9. Designing Dashboards 10. Managing Workspaces and Content 11. Managing the On-Premises Data Gateway 12. Deploying Paginated Reports 13. Creating Power BI Apps and Content Distribution 14. Administering Power BI for an Organization 15. Building Enterprise BI with Power BI Premium 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Dashboard tiles

Most dashboard tiles are created in the Power BI service by pinning a visual in a report to a new or existing dashboard in the same workspace. However, dashboard tiles can also be created by adding a tile directly from the dashboard itself and by pinning from an Excel workbook or Report Server report.

With a report open in the Power BI service, hovering over the top-right corner of a visual exposes the Pin visual icon, as shown in Figure 9.13:

Figure 9.13: Pin visual icon for report visual

Once pinned to the dashboard, several options are available for configuring tiles depending on the type of tile and the content it contains. In the Global and Europe Sales dashboards described previously, a subtitle was added to each tile (for example, France) and custom links were applied to allow direct navigation from the Global dashboard to the Europe dashboard.

In addition, for the top, left-most visual, the Display last refresh time setting was enabled...

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