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Figure 27: Turn axis labels on and off
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To remove visual titles
Select the visual to make it active and open the Formatting pane. Set the slider for Title to Off.
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Then, for each visual on the page, decide whether you want the selected visual to filter, highlight, or do nothing. Not all visuals can be highlighted, and for those the highlight control won't be available. For more information, see Visual interactions in Power BI.
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For readers who’re new to Power BI, this ability to click and interact with reports may not be instantly obvious. Add text boxes to help them understand what they can click on to find more insights. |
The use of color in visuals
Earlier in this paper we talked about the importance of having a plan for how you’re going to use color across a report. This section will have some overlap but primarily applies to how you use color in individual visuals. And the same principles apply: use color to tie the report together, add emphasis to important data, and to improve the reader’s comprehension of the visual. Too many different colors is distracting and makes it difficult for the reader to know where to look. Don’t sacrifice comprehension for beauty. Only add color if it improves comprehension.
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This topic is broken down to cover: 1. Data color 2. Data label color 3. Color for categorical values 4. Color for numerical values
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Scatter and Bubble charts are great storytellers. But they are not as useful when trying to explore data. This is what Stephen Few points out in the paragraph below:
Panel The strength of this approach is when it’s used to tell a story. When Rosling narrates what’s happening in the chart as the bubbles move around and change in value, pointing to what he wants us to see, the information comes alive. Animated bubble charts, however, are much less effective for exploring and making sense of data on our own. I doubt that Rosling uses this method to discover the stories, but only to tell them once they’re known. We can’t attend more than one bubble at once as they’re moving around, so we’re forced to run the animation over and over to try to get a sense of what’s going on. We can add trails to selected bubbles, which make it possible to review the full path these bubble have taken, but if trails are used for more than a few bubbles the chart will quickly become too cluttered. Essentially, what I’m pointing out is that this is not the best way to display this information for exploration and analysis.
Add X and Y axes labels to help tell the story. Especially with bubble charts, there are many components at play and labels help readers understand the visual.
Add data labels to make the visual easier to interpret. Especially with bubble charts, when you have many items in the Legend, it may be difficult to distinguish between similar colors. In the visual above, the legend colors for Suriname, Columbia, and Ecuador are very similar.
Did you create a scatter chart and see only one data point that aggregates all the values on the X and Y axes? Or, your chart aggregates all the values along a single horizontal or vertical line? To fix this, add a field to the Details area to tell Power BI how to group the values. The field must be unique for each point you want to plot. For help, refer to the Power BI scatter and bubble chart tutorial.
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Based on testing and review, RLS still needs to be worked through in greater details. I have added links to better help with future build and testing of RLS. • With PowerBI: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-admin-rls/
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•Jane did customize the content pack. She receives a notification that there's a new version. She can go to AppSource and get the updated content pack without losing her personalized version. She'll now have two versions: her personalized version and the updated content pack.
6.Say Nate changes the security settings. Julio and Jane no longer have access to the content. Or say they're removed from the Marketing distribution group.
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• Jane did customize the content pack. The next time she opens the dashboard all tiles from the original content pack are gone, but tiles she pinned from other reports (that she still has permission to use) still appear. The associated reports and dataset are no longer available (and don't appear in her left navigation pane).
7.Or Nate deletes the content pack.
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All distribution group members have the same permissions to the data as the content pack creator. The one exception to this is SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) on-premises tabular datasets. Because the reports and dashboards are connecting live to the on-premises SSAS model, the credentials of each individual distribution group member are used to determine the data he or she can access.
Creating APP for Shared Content Security
App workspaces
App workspaces are the places where you create apps, so to create an app, you first need to create the app workspace. If you’ve ever worked in a group workspace in Power BI, then app workspaces will be familiar. They’re the evolution of group workspaces – staging areas and containers for the content in the app.
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Now that you understand apps and app workspaces, let's start creating and publishing an app.
Create an app workspace1. Unnikrishnan
- Unnikrishnan, Jayakumar (jayu@usf.edu) will be creating new App Workspaces.
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- The process will be to email, Spehar,Craig (cspehar@health.usf.edu)
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In a few minutes, it will appear in the app in Power BI, too.
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When you’ve finished creating and perfecting the dashboards and reports in your app workspace, you package it all up as an app and distribute it.1.
- In the workspace, select the Publish app button in the upper right to start the process of sharing all the content in that workspace.
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- First, on Details, fill in the description to help people find the app. You can set a background color to personalize it.
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- Next, on Content, you see the content that’s going to be published as part of the app – everything that’s in that workspace. You can also set the landing page – the dashboard or report people will see first when they go to your app. You can choose None. Then they’ll land on a list of all the content in the app
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- Last, on Access, decide who has access to the app: either everyone in your organization, or specific people or email distribution lists.
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- When you select Finish, you see a message confirming it’s ready to publish.
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- In the success dialog box, you can copy the URL that’s a direct link to this app and send it to the people you’ve shared it with.
The business users that you've distributed the app to can find it in two different ways. You can send them the direct link to the app, or they can search for it in Microsoft AppSource, where they see all the apps that they can access. Either way, after that whenever they go to Apps, they’ll see this app in their list.
Change your published app
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But it’s easy to update it if you’re an admin or member of the app workspace.1.
- Open the app workspace that corresponds to the app.
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Open the dashboard or the report. You see that you can make any changes you want.
Note The app workspace is your staging area, so your changes aren't pushed live to the app until you publish again. This lets you make changes without affecting the published apps.
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- Go back to the app workspace list of contents and select Update app.
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- Update Details, Content, and Access, if you need to, then select Update app.
The people you’ve distributed the app to automatically see the updated version of the app.
Unpublish an app
Any member of an app workspace can unpublish the app.•In
- In an app workspace, select the ellipsis (...) in the upper-right corner > Unpublish app.
This action uninstalls the app for everyone you've distributed it to, and they no longer have access to it. It doesn't delete the app workspace or its contents.
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Apps FAQ
How are app workspaces different from group workspaces?
With this release, we have renamed all group workspaces to app workspaces. You can publish an app from any of these workspaces. The functionality remains on par with group workspaces for the most part. Over the next few months, we plan on the following enhancements to app workspaces:•Creating
- Creating app workspaces won't create corresponding entities in Office 365 like group workspaces do. So you can create any number of app workspaces without worrying about different Office 365 groups being created behind the scenes (you can still use an Office 365 group’s OneDrive for Business to store your files).
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- Today you can add only individuals to the members and admin lists. Soon you'll be able to add multiple AD security groups or modern groups to these lists to allow for easier management.
How are apps different from organizational content packs?
Apps are an evolution and simplification of content packs, with a few major differences.•After
- After business users install a content pack, it loses its grouped identity: it's just a list of dashboards and reports interspersed with other dashboards and reports. Apps, on the other hand, maintain their grouping and identity even after installation. This makes it easy for business users to continue to navigate to them over time.
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- You can create multiple content packs from any workspace, but an app has a 1:1 relationship with its workspace. We believe this makes apps easier to understand and maintain over the long run. See the roadmap section of the Power BI blog for more on how we plan to improve this area.
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- Over time we plan to deprecate organizational content packs, so we recommend you create apps from now on.
What about read-only members in groups?
In groups, you can add read-only members who can only view the content. The main problem with this approach was that you couldn't add security groups as members. With apps, you can publish a read-only version of your app workspace to large audiences, including security groups. You can stage your changes to the dashboards and reports in the app without affecting end users. We recommend that you use apps in this way in the future. Over the long run, we plan to deprecate read-only members of workspaces as well.
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