Power BI: March 6, 2025 Boston Workshop

Lauren Henderson

Did you attend the Blackbaud Power BI workshop in Boston? I would like to connect with others who were there in March. It might be beneficial to create a space for sharing insights, experiences, and tips to enhance our understanding and application of what we learned. Let’s take this opportunity to network and collaborate as we use Power BI in our work. I look forward to hearing from you and seeing you in the online office hours tomorrow!

Lauren Henderson

@Lauren Henderson @Jeanne Townsend @Kristen Duval @Elizabeth OConnor

Rebecca Sundquist

In our office hours today, we touched on:

1. Data lineage - Power BI | Microsoft Learn - Understand the flow of data from source through semantic model to multiple reports and other outputs.
2. Endorsement - Promoting and certifying Power BI content - Power BI | Microsoft Learn - Endorse a semantic model as the gold standard for subsequent report builds.
3. Roles in workspaces in Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Learn - Assign roles at workspace level. Creator, Member, and Admin can build reports from published semantic models.
4. Semantic model details page - Power BI | Microsoft Learn - Explore published semantic models.
5. Use Copilot to create measure descriptions (preview) - Power BI | Microsoft Learn - We talked about using the Description property to inform users who are building from a published semantic model. Copilot preview can help populate these descriptions. This feature may be blocked by your organization.
6. Create report bookmarks in Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Learn - Use bookmarks to add navigation and context to your reports. Check out this Guy in a Cube bookmarks example: Build a Slicer Panel in Power BI (2022/2023) - YouTube

Lauren Henderson

@Rebecca Sundquist thank you for the recap of Office Hours!