Summary

In this chapter, you were introduced to Power BI Report Builder to prepare your data for building paginated reports.

Your journey unfolded with insights into the significance of paginated reports, connecting to data sources, utilizing Query Designer, parameters, and filters. Navigating the user interface, you discovered the functionalities of Report Data, Parameters, Properties, and row groups and column groups as well as how to create parameterized fields to refine your dataset queries. Finally, using an example, you began building your report to aggregate and group data by the row groups you created when building the tablix.

This chapter served as just an introduction to the world of Power BI Report Builder and how you can prepare and report on data using paginated reports. I hope a key takeaway from this chapter is that, even if the data you’re working with is clean in your Power BI model or upstream databases, you will still need to do some level of data preparation...