20190829 - Power BI Developers
- Ann Crawford (Unlicensed)
Meeting Details
Date/Time/Location
- Location: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/223753798
- 9:00-10:00
Attendees
Meeting Goals and Expected Preparation
Goals
- Develop processes that insure efficient and auditable deployment and development while optimizing the free user experience.
- Review use cases and discuss problems. Push site context to bring value to users and create user driven requirements.
Expected Preparation
The 8/22 discussion we discussed using a two WS deployment ws_dev > ws_test > app. Is this the deployment process
Try doing stuff in Power BI and then add questions or use cases in the comments to the page. Review the page before the meeting to determine what you want to discuss, like a comments. The agenda proposed below may change based on users comments.
Agenda
| Time | Topic | Owner |
|---|---|---|
| 5 m | Review use cases and questions in the comments to determine topics for the meeting. | All |
| 5 m | Discuss deployment process. What about using two work space for development and the APP as the production/test. Can the test App be defined by limiting the APP access to a testing group? Always develop and edit in Power BI desktop. Using one workspace means we do not have to edit report to connect to test/prod data sets. | Ann Crawford (Unlicensed) |
| 15 m | Demo Housing ? If Housing has has a use case, it would be good to review | Eric Johnstone |
| 20 min | ETS - use case with pagenated reports, review with the group, see what can be translated to power BI reports | Sheetal Gupta (Unlicensed) ? |
| 5 min | user feedback portal / discussion forum - Housing proposal would solve the current problem of email, other ideas? | Group |
| 5 m | Data flow demo how to use generic data flows to make data sets. | Ann Crawford (Unlicensed) |
Discussion
Sheetal demoed the ssrs GL reports in ETS, wants to use where contains in text strings,
Action Items
- Michael Nesbit (Unlicensed) - create power bi financial model general ledger
- Ann Crawford (Unlicensed) - deploy GL workbook to power bi
- Eric Johnstone - Power BI Form with Power Apps, we may not have the licensing for power apps this will be a POC
- Yaheya Quazi - Short design discussion on the entitlement and responsibilities security model.
- Ann Crawford (Unlicensed) - reach out to BSOs to demo to Darshan next week.
- Darshan Etz - check with Shen on integrating Google Data Studio with PBI and investigate security