Organizing the model

There are usually several roles involved in a Power BI project in real-world enterprise BI scenarios. From a Power BI development perspective, we might have data modelers, report writers, quality assurance specialists, support specialists, and so on. The data modelers are the ones who make the data model available for all other content creators, such as report writers. So, making a model that is as organized as possible is essential. This section looks at several ways to organize our data models.

Hiding insignificant model objects

One way to keep our model tidier is to hide all insignificant objects from the data model. We often have some objects in the data model that are not used elsewhere. However, we cannot remove them from the data model as we may require them in the future. So, the best practice is to hide all those objects unless they are going to serve a business requirement. The following sections discuss the best candidate objects for hiding...