Power BI Apps

Power BI apps are a combination of datasets, reports and dashboards that we want to integrate into a whole and thus share them with team members or other people in the organization. For example, if the sales department hires a new employee to have access to sales reports and dashboards, it is enough to install the Sales application. An administrator can even set such an application to be installed automatically.

Power BI user roles

In one of the previous “recipes” you could find out what Power BI Workspace is. In short, it is a collection of datasets, reports and dashboards that we want to manage within the Power BI tenant of a company. When working with the service, there is a need for different users to have different levels of access to the content. In this text you will learn more about user roles …

Power BI alerts

When you create a dashboard within the Power BI service, you may want to be notified if the data reaches a certain predefined value. For this purpose we use Power BI Alerts, and one can only be created for Gauge, Card and KPI visualizations. In the following text you will find out how to use this Power BI service feature.

Power BI Sparklines

Sparkline is a chart that is located inside the cell and shows the change in value over a given period of time, and is suitable for observing trends. It can be a Column or Line chart. This way of presenting data has been in Excel since version 2010, and has recently become available within the Power BI Desktop reporting platform. In the text that follows, you will find out how it is added and changed …

Dataflows

Power Query allows you, whether you use Excel or Power BI, to connect to numerous data sources, retrieve, transform, and use “refined” data to create reports. On that occasion, each step in the transformation process is recorded and, when you refresh the link to the source, the steps are repeated in the given order and you get tables of identical structure. What is a purpose of Dataflows?