September 2022
Beginner to intermediate
307 pages
8h
English
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Chapter 10. Third-Party Tools
To this point, everything that has been discussed in this book has been relevant to a specific part of the Microsoft Power BI ecosystem, usually Power BI Desktop or the Power BI service. Now we’re going to step outside that realm.
As you grow in your Power BI skill set or come across new development requirements, you might eventually find some parts of Power BI that aren’t as easy to manage as you’d like. Things like exporting data from Power BI aren’t as straightforward as they could or maybe should be. Version control has always involved tedious PBIX files, and while Microsoft may have better internal solutions in the future, it too is currently not as easy as it should be. At some point, you may want a little more granular control over where you put your measures when they’re created, or you may want to have them automatically generate in the display folder you’ve created for them.
The purpose of this chapter is to tell you about some great options that will improve your use of Power BI. Power BI is really a great ecosystem, but no software or service is perfect. Thankfully, independent developers inside the Power BI community have gone above and beyond to create completely free tools that can provide very real quality-of-life benefits in your Power BI journey. There’s software to streamline your development experience, manage data models, help with version control, format your DAX properly, and more.
In this chapter, I’m going to highlight some ...
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