create_blank_dashboard

create_blank_dashboard

Functions

Name	Description
create_new_dashboard	Create a new dashboard in the specified folder

create_blank_dashboard.create_new_dashboard(parent_dir, report_name)

Create a new dashboard in the specified folder

This function creates a power BI report in the specified parent directory.
The dashboard can be opened and edited in Power BI desktop like normal, or be further modified progromatically using other functions in this package.
The function creates a folder with the name report_name inside parent_dir with all the dashboard’s files.
The dashboard uses a .pbip/.pbir format with TMDL enabled.
To publish this type of dashboard you will need to either use git enabled workspaces OR convert to a .pbit template and then to a .pbix file before publishing
These annoyances are worth it because the .pbir + TMDL format is the only one that allows real version control and programatic manipulation of the report using these functions.
(.pbip uses mimified json by default and throws an error when it’s given unpacked json).
This dashboard turns off time intelligence and relationship autodection off by default
If you have the option I would recommend looking into a different web development framework (shiny, flask, etc) for building dashboards. Only use this package if you have to :D

parent_dir: str
The path to the directory where you want to store the new dashboard
report_name: str
Name of the report.

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