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Let's explore the realm of security in Power BI. I am a great fan of Power BI as a BI tool that allows to create intuitive visuals with such ease. You can easily share your reports with a large audience across your organization. Let's think of a scenario - your report contains some sensitive data that should not be accessed by all users. Or there are cases where certain reports shouldn't be accessed across different multiple departments. Power BI has answers to all such questions.  Let's start from the very top and understand the different types of security that you can achieve in Power BI - Basic Row Level Security (RLS), Page Level Security (PLS), and Object Level Security (OLS). Row-level security allows to give access based on the defined role. If you are creating a Power BI report this is one of the crucial steps. Check this  article  from Microsoft to learn about RLS in detail.  In this article, we will focus on  the Page Level Security  and  Obj...

Are you a fan of matrix visual in Power BI? If you are as I am, I always struggle to get the correct totals and get something else instead of the totals it can be average. After a lot of research and going over different community posts, finally we have found 3 common scenarios that can elevate your matrix to the next level. To start with, I am using Sample Superstore data. Let's first explain the 3 different scenarios that we will tackle - We  would like  to show both Total Sales and Average Monthly Sales across different categories and different periods. We  would like  to show the Average Sales in the row subtotals and Total Sales in the column subtotals. Last and the  most interesting scenario is to show the Total sales excluding the furniture sales in the row subtotals and total sales in the column subtotals. Let's start by getting the correct totals in a matrix. Generally, if  use  basic Sum, Average... functions in your measures then most likely...

Just think of a scenario, you are working on a Power BI report that is created by multiple developers and now you are debugging it. If you have no knowledge of the ins and outs of it you will get jaded by it very soon. But what if you see some description or textual information within the report? That will be the ray of light 💡.  As a best practice, if you are creating any report from scratch try to add a description to almost everything. Starting from the tables, columns, measures, calculation groups, field parameters..... How to do it? Okay, let's start by providing a description of the tables. I am using Sample Superstore data and want to provide a description - Contains sales data. To do so, go to the data model view. Select the table where you need to add the description. Under properties, you can provide a description under the description section. Easy peasy lemon squeezy!! That's basic and at Analyst in Action, we always strive to go beyond the basic knowledge. Let...