Building a Power BI dashboard
With a robust data model and multiple reports created in Power BI Desktop, dashboards can be created in the Power BI service to consolidate the essential visuals from these reports onto one canvas. Additionally, the dashboard will provide an access point to the detailed reports the tiles and will be optimized for mobile access through the Power BI mobile application.
This recipe walks through all the essential components of building a Power BI dashboard, from creating an app workspace to hold the dashboard to enhancing the layout and settings of the dashboard.
How to do it...
Dashboard design process
- Define dashboard consumers and requirements.
- The report design planning process described in Chapter 4, Authoring Power BI Reports is directly applicable to dashboards as well
- Confirm that the existing data model (or models) the required business questions
- Map dashboard tiles to reports and datasets.
- In this example, a sales dashboard is created for the North American...
