Use JSON theme files to standardize the look of Power BI dashboards and
reports. This book shows how you can create theme files using the Power
BI Desktop application to define high-level formatting attributes for
dashboards as well as how to tailor detailed formatting specifications
for individual dashboard elements in JSON files. Standardize the look of
your dashboards and apply formatting consistently over all your reports.
The techniques in this book provide you with tight control over the
presentation of all aspects of the Power BI dashboards and reports that
you create.
Power BI theme files use JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) as their
structure, so the book includes a brief introduction to JSON as well as
how it applies to Power BI themes. The book further includes a complete
reference to all the current formatting definitions and JSON structures
that are at your disposal for creating JSON theme files. Finally, the
book includes dozens of theme files, from the simple to the most
complex, that you can adopt and adapt to suit your own requirements.
What You Will Learn
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Produce designer output without manually formatting every individual
visual in a Power BI dashboard
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Standardize presentation for families of dashboard types
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Switch presentation styles in a couple of clicks
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Save dozens, or hundreds, of hours laboriously formatting dashboards
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Define enterprise-wide presentation standards
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Retroactively apply standard styles to existing dashboards
Who This Book Is For
Power BI users who want to save time by defining standardized formatting
for their dashboards and reports, IT professionals who want to create
corporate standards of dashboard presentation, and marketing and
communication specialists who want to set organizational standards for
dashboard delivery
