Use your energy bi dashboards in your Home windows gadget

In a earlier submit, “Maintain Your Dashboards in Your Pocket, Half 1: Use Your Predefined Dashboards on Your IOS Units“, I defined methods to use Energy BI app in your IOS units.

On this submit I specific methods to 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 mechanically 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 looking your dashboard you’ll be able to click on on every chart to open it
To write down 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 may click on on every chart merchandise from the report’s charts to see relative modifications on the opposite charts. This can navigate you to the corresponding report web page that the chart belongs to

You may as well kind the charts OR choose a number of chart gadgets. To take action proper click on on a chart (you are able to do the identical by lengthy clicking on a chart)

You may as well change the chart filters:
- Click on on a chart
- Click on “Filters” from the precise 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, kind a message then click on “Invite”. You may enable/disallow the recipients the flexibility to share the dashboard with others by clicking ticking the corresponding tick field.

You may open every report from the “Stories” situated within the house display of the app

To create a brand new dashboard/report you’ll be able to proper click on on house 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 “Stories” web page. Clicking on the “Add a brand new dashboard/report” will open your browser with the intention 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 initiatives 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 every little thing that appears helpful or vital to me.

Within the subsequent articles of the Energy BI collection I’ll dive extra deeply into the Energy BI and its advances options.