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Advocate IDashboard 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.
Advocate II 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.
Community ChampionDid 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