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Layouts for Company Templates

Recently I had the privilege of working with Microsoft doing a Webinar on layouts. One thing we are passionate about at PowerBI.Tips is good looking reports that drive action. Often as report authors we spend a ton of time working on the data model, and the calculations. While these things are important, we must also consider the user experience.

You may have the most compelling report but lack some visual appeal. Alternatively we might have a great looking report but the navigation or interactions is un-intuitive. We then are spoiling the impact power of our report.

Use Layouts

This is where we feel our layouts make a great fit. It provides a shortcut to provide excellent looking reports on top of your existing data model.

To learn more about layouts and how to use them, check out this video from the Microsoft Power BI YouTube Channel.

Download Layouts

Get your hands on some layouts now and try them out. Check out the downloads below.

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February 4, 2020
New Layout – Square One

“Square One” utilizes the color theme as a background component that adds a pop of accent color only. This gives you the end user the maximum flexibility to incorporate color themes that match your needs without drawing to much attention on the main part of the page. Click here to download

The icons are part of the background so that the colors come through with the icons, but this also keeps the same flexibility in that if you have different icons, you can always place those behind the clear buttons placed on the report. We’ve only tied in 3 of the icons to buttons and bookmarks as the others can be added by you as you develop and build out the report.

The idea behind the icons on the right follow two different thought patterns.

First, a Summary, more granular, and then table views of data. In this vein, you would create a clear bookmark to re-direct to the different pages showing that level of information.

Second, would be to create toggles on each page to view visuals in current state vs. over time and use the icons to flip between the two.

Let us know your thoughts on this new layout idea, we hope you get a lot of use out of it!

Sample of Report:

May 1, 2019
New Layout – Smooth Operator

Hey everyone! We’re excited to release our latest layout “Smooth Operator”. Click here to download. We’ve gotten some great feedback from our users and the previous layouts were a bit heavy handed as we tried to create a perfect experience with adding visuals. The difficulty of trying to link up a dataset to the x/y axis made some of those a bit burdensome. As a result, we’re going to streamline the layouts to be super easy to use but yet still providing as much enhanced value with bookmarks, areas for visuals, and using json themes to change look and feel of background and visual elements.

We’re interested in your thoughts on this streamlined approach, so please let us know how you like the new layout – and expect more like it in the future!

Sample of Report:

March 21, 2019
New Game – aMAZEing DAX
If you haven’t had your mind melted over the past few games that Phil Seamark has developed here is one more, aMAZEing DAX. This month’s game is a Gauntlet styled game that uses SVGs, and some fun DAX to allow you to navigate through a maze. Game play engine developed by Phil Seamark, and Graphics Design by Seth Bauer.

Play the game below, or hit this link for the full screen version:

To download your own copy of this game follow this link.

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To read about how this game was built jump on over to Phil’s blog post.
November 26, 2018
New Layout – September 2018 Blog Layout

In the September 2018 blog post the Microsoft team released a new layout. This layout has a number of really nice design elements. However, upon reviewing the file used for this demo found here. Upon downloading we noticed that the new style of the layout was only one page deep. As an enhancement to this file we added all the pages, renamed all the elements and created a full PowerBI.Tips layout from this page. We’d love to share our work with you and hope you enjoy this new layout from PowerBI.tips.

Be sure to download your copy here:

Demo of September 2018 Layout:

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October 2, 2018
Microsoft Business Applications Summit – New Layout – Purple Haze
In honor of the 2018 Business Applications Summit, PowerBI.Tips has published a new layout, Purple Haze. Purple Haze is the brain child of Seth Bauer, and utilizes the latest features of the July 2018 Power BI Desktop.

In the previous versions of Power BI desktop there was always a header present at the top of a visual. Now, the header is no longer needed, and design elements within the report can extend all the way to the very top of the report page. This is great news for report designers and new possibilities for Layouts.

Hit the link to download the Purple Haze layout.

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Cool Features of Purple Haze:
- The report comes with four (4) pages. In the example the are listed as Accessories, Bikes, Clothing, and Components. By Clicking on these buttons the report navigates to a new page where all the visuals for these topics exist.
Purple Haze Menu Bar
- The filters across the top of the report are using an upper third filter context window. This window is exposed when clicking on the filter icon, which is found in the upper left hand corner of the report:
Purple Haze Filter Menu

We hope you enjoy this new free layout.

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July 30, 2018
Power BI and Sudoku – Yes Please

This week Philip Seamark, an avid Power BI developer has released a joint project with PowerBI.Tips, a full Sudoku game in Power BI. To be totally honest with you Phil did all the hard work, I just contributed the pretty background and provided some suggestions. To learn more about how Phil build this amazing game within Power BI check out his blog post about it here.

The Game

If you want to play this Power BI file you can do so below:

To play the Sudoku game in full screen use this link.

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If you are interested in looking at this file to see how it works you can download the file using the link below.

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June 22, 2018
New Layout – Splash o Red

First off, let me say WOW! The announcement of Layouts was well received by the Power BI Community. Thank you so much for the positive feedback. So much so, that I got excited and developed another Layout, Splash o Red.

This new layout is called contains two pages. It uses the drill through feature to navigate from the main page to the sub page. The demo below shows you how it works. I hope you enjoy this new layout, you can download it here.

To see how to load data into the Layouts check out the following video below. It will guide you through the process. Additionally, each layout download will contain an instructions sheet just in case.

You can check out all the layouts here.

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January 19, 2018
Introducing Layouts

PowerBI.tips is extremely happy to be part of, and contribute to, the Power BI Community. We’re constantly trying to think of new and interesting ways we can enhance the Power BI experience for everyone by providing helpful tips & tools. Some examples of what we’ve done so far are Power BI Desktop Theme generator, and the Power BI toolbox:

Today we’re happy to announce another tool that we hope you will get an immense amount of use from.

Introducing:

Layouts are Power BI Template (PBIT) files that will contain layouts with visualizations already in place and only require your data to light up. We have, and will be, using as many of the visualization techniques. We are taking some of the best layouts we’ve seen, and those we’ve developed to create these files for you. This means that you don’t have to spend any time worrying about the vast number of design techniques. Additionally, it will save you time placing or moving things around on the report page. All that is required of you, is to download the PBIT file, load your data, and start selecting the pre-placed visualizations. With each layout template there will be a sample file (demo) that will show you the look and feel of each layout so you can easily choose the layout you want on each report page. You can always change the visual type with the click of a button.

Today, we’re releasing the first of our efforts with a 3 tab layout focused on the business analyst. These layouts are designed with maximum flexibility in mind, to let you alter color themes, easily change the visualization type, and provide enough visualizations to give you a huge initial benefit. One of the best parts about the Layout is that you are not limited by our designs, they are just the starting point, you can fully customize them however you would like. We just provide you with a solid foundation to build from.

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Demo of Layouts:

In addition to the first analyst layout, we’re releasing an Info-graphic style layout that contains some deeper interactions using Bookmarks. However, these Layouts will be a bit more restrictive in terms of how much you can change visually. This is due to the need to rely more heavily on other tools to create the look & feel. Thus, you will have limits in just how much you can change. Our hope with these is to build more stunning report layouts that will maximize presentation, or help wow an audience.

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We are releasing layouts for the analyst, executives and still have some fun with highly stylized files. We hope you get as much use out of these new Layouts as we know we will! Over time, we will continue to develop and produce an entire library of the selections. Thanks to all of you who make this such a fun and great Community to be a part of.

January 16, 2018