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I see you thinking about my title… I know Microsoft Flow is now renamed to Power Automate, but then my title just doesn't have the same flow of reading anymore 😀
@NickyvV speaker 4 of 8 at @DublinPUG #PowerPlatformWT
— Ben Watt (@benrebooted) October 30, 2019
A form, a Flow and a PBI streaming dataset walk into a bar. pic.twitter.com/Jr8WXfJ4EU
In this blog series I will detail all the steps needed to get this demo up and running on your own. I will use the text in this post, as well as screenshots and videos explaining it step by step. So, if you're already (somewhat) familiar with Forms, Power Automate and/or Power BI streaming datasets, feel free to go directly to the videos and start building your own demo right away. Otherwise, keep reading and eventually you'll come across all the resources as well.
As this is a blog series, in Part 1 I will explain what the reason behind this demo is, and what I used it for in my presentations. I will make a start with the demo and show you how to make a Form and set up a streaming dataset in Power BI.
Problem
I think it's good to have some form of interactivity in your presentation. Whether it's by (live) polling your audience, telling a story, asking questions during your presentation or any of the other 8 ways to make your presentation more interactive, doesn't really matter.
The way I started doing this during my first presentation was by firing some questions at the audience after I introduced myself. For example, I asked what kind of job they were in at the moment and with what technologies (related to the topic of the presentation) they have worked with. Although that worked pretty well, I was asking closed questions with a show of hands, so if someone didn't participate, I couldn't really notice. I wasn't counting hands for that matter. I did get a feel of the audience from my perspective, so I know on what topics to focus on a little more in my presentation.
Solution
As we work with the Power Platform suite of products, with my main focus on Power BI, I thought it was a good idea to use some of that Power! So, what I did was the following:
- I used Microsoft Forms to create a form,
- Then I set up a Power Automate flow to get the answers,
- Pushed them into a Power BI streaming dataset,
- And finally created a Power BI report and dashboard on that dataset to get a live view of the answers of the audience
Let's go through it step by step.
Create a form
Go over to Microsoft Forms, log in and create a new or use an existing form.
I'm going to create a form that I can use in my presentation, so it is focused at the topic I'm presenting on. So, I would like the audience to enter their Name, Continent (of origin), Occupation and Experience. Let's see how it works.
A little side-note: unfortunately, I can't change the language in Forms to English because this is disabled in our O365-tenant, so some words on the screen are still in Dutch, sorry for that.
I showed a few possible options for creating questions in a form, but you can experiment with other options yourself. Some questions (like the multiple choice answers) are returned as JSON-values so you have to be aware you have to do some calculations in the Power BI report to nicely visualize the values.
Create a streaming dataset
The streaming dataset, of type push, has to be created before selecting the workspace in Power Automate, because otherwise the streaming dataset won't show up. In PowerBI.com you can create a dataset in any workspace, also in My Workspace. You do that by clicking on the +-sign in the home screen of your workspace.
Make sure you turn on the switch for Historic data analysis when creating the dataset. That way Power BI will store the data that's sent through this data stream, and you'll be able to do reporting and analysis on the collected data stream. This switch can also be used to clear the dataset.
Recap
In Part 1 of this blog series I started with Microsoft Forms and a Power BI streaming dataset.
In Part 2 next week, I will show you how to glue it all together with Power Automate and create a report out of the data. There are some tricks you need to know in the streaming dataset to properly show the output in your Power BI report. And lastly, I will show you a trick to get your data refreshed live while respondents are answering the questions, but without refreshing your browser!
This post appeared first at my blog on nickyvv.com
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