I am new to Power BI, and I need to set a fixed graphical chart to the enterprise.
The chart will be used for all dashboards generated from PowerBI (this chart contains the enterprise Logo, color chart,...).
Actually for the moment I am repeating the settings for every dashboard I create, but I need it to be automatically set as template for example.
Is that possible with Power BI please?
Thank you for your answers :)
There's the ability to add a custom theme from a JSON file. I believe this is still a preview feature you need to enable in the options.
This only does colour palette though. I don't think there's an ability to save the format of a visual as a template. You could suggest it over on the Power BI Ideas forum.
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I have a power bi report that connects to another power bi dataset.
I want to import an excel file into the new report's dataset without making any changes to the original dataset.
On this new report (that uses another dataset) the transform query button is grayed out so I'm not sure how to import an excel file. Does power bi support this?
Use the Get data button on the home tab. Should be a simple upload of the excel file. Make sure to use the desktop version. Using the model tab on the far left side you can link variables (many to many, many to one, etc.) (if the datasets are related)
What you`re looking for is a Composite Model. If you want to use it, you first have to enable the following Preview features in Options:
After a restart you can click on Transform data and Power BI will add a local model and allow you to add further data sources like Excel files to it.
Being a beginner in PowerBI, I am trying to import dataset on online portal of PowerBI(aap.powerbi.com). When I upload the data, I am not able to see the option to transform or manipulate data. What is the way I can access this without using power BI desktop
The PowerQuery or the Trasnform Data option is only available in PowerBI cloud. Even if you want to create measures or new columns you'll have to do it on the desktop, there's no way around this unfortunately currently. If it is possible in the future, let me know here!
Its better to use power bi desktop to data manipulation and preparation part.
I have created Power BI reports using various visualizations and filter options. But from what I know, I've only been able to pin the visuals to the Dashboards and not the filter options. Is that correct? Or can we actually add filters, especially the checkboxes and the drop-down lists, on the final dashboards as well?
You can use 'Slicer' option in the visualization pane to get some similar options that you have in filter pane.
Per Microsoft website:
No. Can't filter or slice a dashboard. Can filter a dashboard tile in
focus mode, but can't save the filter.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/service-dashboards
Power BI "Dashboards" are not meant to have the same features as "Reports". The Dashboards are supposed to be high-level snapshots with low-level of interactivity. If you want more details, you click on one of the visual to go to the "Report"
While trying to embed a single visual from an embedded Power BI report, the page filters applied to the report is also coming along the Visual and I am not able to remove it using removeFilter function mentioned in Power BI playground. I tried like :
Take the visual from report and tried removing filter to the single visual.
Remove the filter from report (successful) and get the Single Visual.
In both cases, Visuals are displayed with Filter.
Could anyone please help me out?
Dashboard are basically for presentation purpose. First you will generate your desired output for a visual in the report using - Slicing, Filtering and drilling down. Once your visual is showing your expected output, you can then PIN your visual to your target dashboard. Remember, once you pinned a visual to a dashboard, you can not change it any more in the dashboard. If you need changes, you need to perform in in the report and then again pin your final output to the dashboard.
Lets go through some comment/explanation from different blogs and tutorials-
Tiles/visuals pinned to a dashboard are displayed based on the filters applied
to them via the filter pane OR via slicers OR via cross filtering at
the time of pinning in report.
Dashboards do not currently have filters that will allow filtering
across tiles/visuals.
A dashboard can contain charts from multiple reports. That’s why a
sliver doesn't make sense on a dashboard, because the slicer can't
filter all charts/datasets.
Whatever, I also found some comments as below, but I have not enough knowledge about the approach mentioned.
If you would like the ability to filter specific tiles on a dashboard,
pin live report pages
You can pin a whole report page as a live page, so that any changes
you make in that report page will be reflected in the live page you
pinned to your dashboard.
You can do some google about what is power bi Live Report is
We want to customize our Power BI Embedded Reports to create our own style/visuals.
Here is an example from how it currently looks from inside Power BI:
Here we can only change data color for the graph line. We however, want to add a gradient to this specific line, like this:
We have found that the options to customize styles other than from the Power BI dashboard is limited. Is there any way we could modify the json or any other way achieve customization?
You can try using custom visuals:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/developers/custom-visualization/