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Community Power BI project – rescuing the lost archive – they think it's all over

Author: Simon Hurst

Published: 15 Jul 2021

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For details of what this project is all about and how to develop your own version, please look at the Excel archive file article listed below:

The story so far:

Excel archive file

Part 1 – from web page to Excel Table

Part 2 – from Excel Table to web page

Part 3 – Using Power BI

Part 4 - charts and interactions

Part 5 – interactions between charts

Part 6 - additional visualisations

Spreadsheet Knowledge Base launches

Custom interactions

In part 6, we looked at the addition of two Word Cloud visualisations. Useful as they are, on smaller screens all but the most popular words can be difficult to see and even more difficult to select. To help address this issue and to complete our series, we have added a separate page our report to include just the Keyword Word Cloud and the Table of post titles and links.

New pages can be created in a similar way to adding a new worksheet to an Excel workbook. Clicking the plus sign at the right of the existing list of pages will add a new page. However, in this case, our Keyword search page contains a subset of the visualisations included on our Main page. Accordingly, we will right-click on our Main page tab and choose Duplicate Page. This adds a copy of our Main page that we can rename and then edit.

To create the Keyword search page, we have deleted the visualisations that we don't need and then expanded the size of the Keyword Word Cloud:

Excel screenshot

To make it more obvious that our Keyword search page exists, and to make it easier to navigate to and from the page, we have used the Insert Ribbon tab, Elements group, Buttons dropdown to add a button to our Main page to take us to the Keyword search page, and then a Back button on the Keyword search page to take us back.

With a button selected, the Visualizations pane changes to the Format button pane, and we can edit the appropriate sections. In this case, we have turned the Button Text on and entered the text as 'Keyword search page'. In the Action section we have chosen Page navigation from the Type dropdown and then entered the name of our page:

Excel screenshot

For the Back button on the Keyword search page itself, we choose the Type 'Back' and enter our text in the same way as for the button on our Main page.
Users can now navigate between the pages using these buttons as well as by using the Pages pane in the browser.

Mobile Layout

An alternative way to deal with the small screen issue is to use the View Ribbon tab, Mobile group, Mobile Layout button to create a page layout specifically designed to work on a mobile device:

Excel screenshot

Conclusion

Hopefully, you will have found this series useful in demonstrating some of the things that Power BI can be used to achieve. As a bonus, in so doing, we have created an interactive portal to the wealth of articles available to Tech Faculty and Excel Community members.

Resources and feedback

We have embedded the current stage of project development below:

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The 'Open in full-screen mode' icon in the bottom right-hand corner of the embedded report should show the contents at a more readable size with the Escape key returning you to the post.

Further comments on useful ways in which we could provide access to the community content would still be very welcome:

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