Introduction to Power BI – DEC Report Video 8

Intro to Power BI #8 – 15 mins 58 secs

Video 8 – Adding new visuals / Edit Interactions / Publish and Share

• Return to Delivery Methods Analysis – copy Data Skills Percentage visual
• Paste on a new page
• Rename page to Data Skills By Year
• Add a Card
• Add the field Delivery Method to the card.
• Notice that the default for a text field on a card is ‘First’
• Update summarisation from First to Count ( not Count Distinct )
• Add Delivery Method to Filters on this Visual and select Hybrid
• Format Card
  • Height – 150, Width 300
  • Add Title ‘Hybrid’
  • Effects – border | shadow
  • Remove Category Label
• Copy Visual and paste 3 times
• Update each new visual – In Person, Online Self-Directed
• Remember to update Filter on this visual appropriately
• Ensure lefty hand visual and right hand visual are at the edges
• Select all 4 cards – hold CTRL
• Go to Format ( Ribbon ) then Align, then Distribute Horizontally
• Go to ‘Get More Visuals’ and search for Play Axis
• Add to report, and add to page
• Change Animation Settings to Loop
• Add colors
• Press play
• Sit back and be amazed 😊
• Copy Clustered Column Chart and paste into space
• You can use ‘Align’, then Distribute Vertically to clean up dashboard
• Select Play Axis, then Format, Edit Interactions.
• On one of your Clustered Column Charts change Highlight to Filter
• Uncheck Edit Interactions
• Play your Play Axis – notice the differences
• File Save
• Publish and choose ‘Your Workspace’
• Open the link that PBI provides you with
• Your are now in PBI Service aka Fabric
• The finished dashboards can be
  • Shared as dashboards within your organisation
  • Exported into PowerPoint as either static images or ( really cool ) live dashboards
  • Exported as PDFs