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Dashboard Vs Report
ah ok! and yes i have those books already.
Ok when you publish to the Power BI service, it creates 2 objects a dataset and a report. Even though technically what you have already created is a dashboard you need to pin that 'report' aka dashboard into a dashboard.
What you need to do is in the Power BI service, manually create a dashboard in the dashsboard workspace by clicking the + where it says dashboard. Basically what you doing it creating a shell to dump your 'report' into. Then open your report, at the top of the screen you should see pin live dashboard, pin it to the dashboard you just created.
You might want think about creating a group workspace for the group you created, in other words the default will be your work space. Create a group workspace to share your content with the group that are going to consume the dashboard. You can do that under my work space at the top. Then add all the users into that, unless there is already an defined group in your office 365 domain that you can add it to. There is a way of linking those groups to power bi i think.
hope that makes sense.
I cant workout how, in PowerBi Desktop to make a Dashboard over a Report?
I admit I am very new to this, where as Tableu I get easily. There are obviously a few issues, like no duel axis for line charts etc.. but i guess they will come.
Right now, I really cant tell the differance between a DB and a Report and I think i need to make a DB so that i can publish it as a DB and share that with my team? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Did you say you have built dashboards in tableau before, what is the difference?
Lets start like this,
1. what is your objective ie. your functional requirement which means, what story are you trying to tell with the data?
2. What do you users need to see in order for to be valuable to them, do they all have the same requirement.
3. Is it year / quarter / month view? Or is it a daily view?
by the sounds of it if you are showing graphs it probably a dashboard. To get a better idea of what a dashboard is and how to make it a great dashboard
read this http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/misc/WhyMostDashboardsFail.pdf
ok, I think we are slightly out of sync, I know the definition and differance between a Dash and Report, I am a BI.
What I do not understand is PowerBi`s definition between a Dashboard and a Report.
I have made, what is, by definition a Dashboard,However, PowerBi sees this as a report, when i publish this to a workspace, its housese this under the heading of Report, not Dashboard.
Why I cant workout, is how to tell PowerBi that the Dashboard I have made, is a Dashboard and not a Report and to stop treating it as such.
This is where Tableau was better, you simply said "I want to make a Dashboard" or "I want to tell a story", which was more like a report delivery.
Does that make more sense.
Thanks for the link, ill read it, to share on that theme, take a look at two books by Stephen Few, "Information Dashboard Design" and "Show Me the Numbers" both are excellent.ah ok! and yes i have those books already.
Ok when you publish to the Power BI service, it creates 2 objects a dataset and a report. Even though technically what you have already created is a dashboard you need to pin that 'report' aka dashboard into a dashboard.
What you need to do is in the Power BI service, manually create a dashboard in the dashsboard workspace by clicking the + where it says dashboard. Basically what you doing it creating a shell to dump your 'report' into. Then open your report, at the top of the screen you should see pin live dashboard, pin it to the dashboard you just created.
You might want think about creating a group workspace for the group you created, in other words the default will be your work space. Create a group workspace to share your content with the group that are going to consume the dashboard. You can do that under my work space at the top. Then add all the users into that, unless there is already an defined group in your office 365 domain that you can add it to. There is a way of linking those groups to power bi i think.
hope that makes sense.
Thanks for your help, You pointed me in the right direction and this has resolved my issue.
Appreciate it a lot.
Take Care. :-)