Pro Power BI Theme Creation : JSON Stylesheets for Automated Dashboard Formatting Paperback / softback

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 up to the May 2023 release of Power BI Desktop.

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 LearnProduce designer output without manually formatting every individual visual in a Power BI dashboardStandardize presentation for families of dashboard typesSwitch presentation styles in a couple of clicksSave dozens, or hundreds, of hours laboriously formatting dashboardsDefine enterprise-wide presentation standardsRetroactively apply standard styles to existing dashboards Who This Book Is ForPower 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.