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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Bible
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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Bible

by Adam Jorgensen, Jorge Segarra, Patrick LeBlanc, Jose Chinchilla, Aaron Nelson
August 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1416 pages
33h 39m
English
Wiley
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Creating and Deploying Reports with Power View

You can launch Power View from a data source containing a BI Semantic Model published to SharePoint 2010. There are five options to launch Power View:

1. Directly from a PowerPivot workbook (.xlsx file) in PowerPivot Gallery
2. From a Report Data Source (.rsds file) pointing to a PowerPivot workbook
3. From a Report Data Source (.rsds file) pointing to an Analysis Services Tabular database
4. From a BI Semantic Model connection (.bism file) pointing to a PowerPivot workbook
5. From a BI Semantic Model connection (.bism file) pointing to an Analysis Services Tabular database

The PowerPivot Gallery in SharePoint 2010 enables you to launch Power View directly from a PowerPivot workbook (.xlsx file), as shown on Figure 59.1.

Figure 59.1 Launching Power View from PowerPivot workbook in PowerPivot Gallery.

59.1

You can also launch Power View from a shared data source with a Microsoft Business Intelligence Semantic Model data source type, based either on a PowerPivot file or a tabular model database on an Analysis Services server from any library. Shared data sources have a file type extension of .rsds.

The next section walks you through the steps to create a document library that supports Semantic Model data source connection files. The sections that follow walk you through the steps to create Report Data Source files and BI Semantic ...

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