In a earlier submit, “Maintain Your Dashboards in Your Pocket, Half 1: Use Your Predefined Dashboards on Your IOS Gadgets“, I defined how you can use Energy BI app in your IOS units.
On this submit I categorical how you can use Energy BI app in your Home windows units. It’s comparatively straightforward to put in and use the Home windows app.
- Go to www.powerbi.com and click on on the “Obtain from Home windows Retailer” button
It robotically results in the app web page in your Home windows Retailer
Click on Set up to put in the app
After the app put in efficiently open it from begin menu
Click on Signal In
Enter your account data and click on “Proceed” then “Signal In”
After you signed in click on on “AdventureWorks” from dashboards part
After shopping your dashboard you’ll be able to click on on every chart to open it
To put in writing an annotation and share an screenshot of the chart you’ll be able to click on on the share button, write annotation and ship it to a colleague by clicking on the share button
If the chart is pinned to the dashboard from an current report you’ll be able to browse the report by clicking on the report button
You possibly can click on on every chart merchandise from the report’s charts to see relative adjustments on the opposite charts. This can navigate you to the corresponding report web page that the chart belongs to
You too can type the charts OR choose a number of chart objects. To take action proper click on on a chart (you are able to do the identical by lengthy clicking on a chart)
You too can change the chart filters:
Click on on a chart
Click on “Filters” from the proper pane
Click on “Visible” and setup a desired filter
To ask a colleague to see the dashboard, return to the “Journey Works” dashboard and click on on the “Invite a Colleague” button then enter the recipients’ e mail addresses, sort a message then click on “Invite”. You possibly can enable/disallow the recipients the flexibility to share the dashboard with others by clicking ticking the corresponding tick field.
You possibly can open every report from the “Studies” positioned within the dwelling display of the app
To create a brand new dashboard/report you’ll be able to proper click on on dwelling display of the app and choose dashboard/report that navigates you to the corresponding web page. Then you’ll be able to add new dashboard from “Dashboards” web page or add a brand new report from “Studies” web page. Clicking on the “Add a brand new dashboard/report” will open your browser as a way to create new dashboard/report from there. Subsequently, I don’t suppose that is one thing useful as you’ll be able to all the time go and browse your Energy BI tasks on-line and create new dashboard/report from the web site.
That is how you need to use the Home windows app in your Home windows primarily based machine. I attempted to cowl nearly the whole lot that appears helpful or necessary to me.
Within the subsequent articles of the Energy BI sequence I’ll dive extra deeply into the Energy BI and its advances options.
