Power BI Paginated Reports in a Day course
The Power BI Paginated Reports in a Day video-based course empowers you as a report author with the technical knowledge required to create, publish, and distribute Power BI paginated reports. It comprises almost 4 hours 20 minutes of viewable content—available on demand, and is free of charge. There's also an attendee kit that you can download and use to complete nine hands-on labs.
Specifically, the course targets:
- Power BI report authors
- Excel analysts
- Report authors with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) skills, requiring a refresher
- Crystal Reports authors
After you complete the course, you'll know how to:
- Design report layouts
- Connect to data sources to retrieve report data
- Work with parameters
- Visualize report data
- Add interactive features
- Publish, consume, deliver, and embed paginated reports
Course outline
The course of 27 videos is organized into eight modules. We recommend you watch the videos in the recorded sequence, starting with video 01 and ending with video 27.
- Introduction
- Video 01: Welcome and Course Introduction
- Module 01: Power BI Reporting
- Video 02: Power BI Reporting - Part 1
- Video 03: Power BI Reporting - Part 2
- Module 02: Designing Report Layouts
- Video 04: Designing Report Layouts - Part 1
- Video 05: Designing Report Layouts - Part 2
- Video 06: Designing Report Layouts - Part 3
- Video 07: Designing Report Layouts - Part 4
- Module 03: Retrieving Report Data
- Video 08: Retrieving Report Data - Part 1
- Video 09: Retrieving Report Data - Part 2
- Video 10: Retrieving Report Data - Part 3
- Module 04: Working with Parameters
- Video 11: Working with Parameters - Part 1
- Video 12: Working with Parameters - Part 2
- Video 13: Working with Parameters - Part 3
- Module 05: Visualizing Report Data
- Video 14: Visualizing Report Data - Part 1
- Video 15: Visualizing Report Data - Part 2
- Video 16: Visualizing Report Data - Part 3
- Video 17: Visualizing Report Data - Part 4
- Module 06: Adding Interactive Features
- Video 18: Adding Interactive Features - Part 1
- Video 19: Adding Interactive Features - Part 2
- Module 07: Beyond Report Development
- Video 20: Beyond Report Development - Part 1
- Video 21: Beyond Report Development - Part 2
- Module 08: Bonus Content
- Video 22: Bonus Content: Review
- Video 23: Bonus Content: Evolution of Paginated Reporting
- Video 24: Bonus Content: Lowering the Barrier to Entry
- Updates
- Video 25: December 2020 Update
- Video 26: December 2021 Update
- Video 27: March 2023 Update
Note
These videos might use earlier versions of Power BI Report Builder, Power BI Desktop, or the Power BI service.
Attendee kit
You can download and set up an attendee kit, which consists of the presentation content and nine hands-on labs:
Important
When you download and extract the course content, you must update the database connection string. Open the MyEnvironment folder and modify the content of the MyEnvironment.txt file. Change the server name to: labresources.database.windows.net
- Use this link to download the attendee kit locally to your PC (Windows 8, or later).
- Open the file properties of the zip file, and check "unblock" (Windows may flag the file as potentially untrusted).
- Create a root course folder. We recommend you name it something like "C:\Training". Remember this location, because you'll need to access the course files during the labs. All lab documents refer to this location as <CourseFolder>.
- Copy the AttendeeKit folder contents to your root course folder.
- In the <CourseFolder>\AttendeeKit\Lab01A folder, open the PDF lab document and follow the lab instructions.
- Open the <CourseFolder>\Attendee\MyEnvironment folder, and then open the MyEnvironment.txt file. Change the server name to: labresources.database.windows.net - then save the file.
Note
In the localized Instructor kit, you will find documents for the following eight languages:
- German (de-DE)
- Spanish (es-ES)
- French (fr-FR)
- Italian (it-IT)
- Japanese (ja-JP)
- Korean (ko-KR)
- Portuguese, Brazilian (pt-BR)
- Chinese, simplified characters (zh-CN)
Important
You're responsible for having your own Power BI account. If you don't already have one, see Sign up for or purchase the Power BI service as an individual. A newly signed up account can benefit from a 60-day trial license.
To complete the labs, you must sign in to Power BI to publish a Power BI Desktop file to a workspace. The publication results in a dataset that's used as a report data source.
Instructor kit
Use this link to download the instructor kit locally to your PC.
Related content
For more information related to this article, check out the following resources:
- Tutorial: Create a paginated report and upload it to the Power BI service
- Questions? Try asking the Power BI Community
- Suggestions? Contribute ideas to improve Power BI