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.
In an old cartoon was promoted a saying: “Cats and mice can be friends”. Consequently, Excel and Power BI can also be friends! Power BI allows you to import Excel reports, whether traditional, Pivot or Power Pivot reports. This is not a whole new topic, but I think it would be nice to remember it in a new light, with an emphasis on what you can do for free and when you definitely have to buy licenses.
Power BI is, for the most part, used for business reporting purposes, and the ultimate goal is to publish company data in the cloud, along with related reports, and then create reporting dashboards that provide the information necessary to support decision making. A free Power BI subscription can also be used for this, but I still recommend that you use (purchase) a Power BI Professional license. Why? More about this in the text that follows …
Reporting dimensions are all fields that you can see in the Fields menu, which are used to populate reports. Basically, these are the columns in the table model. Also, they can be Calculated Columns or Measures. In some earlier “recipes” I talked about how to create them in PowerPivot model, and now I will show you how to do perform this in PowerBI Desktop. Also, I will mention another interesting novelty: Calculated Tables!
Programmers usually don’t care too much for report’s look, whilst those who watch the reports equally care for their clarity and appearance (correctness is assumed). PowerBI possesses several tools that can be used for enhancing reports. In my opinion it can still be much better. Nevertheless, from version to version PowerBI development team is adding new functionalities and now it is quite better comparing its beginning.