5.5 Explore Power BI Mobile - Video Tutorials & Practice Problems

<v Instructor>Okay, so in this sublesson,</v> we're gonna introduce Power BI Mobile. We'll discuss Power BI Mobile features and we'll demo building for Power BI Mobile. Alright, so let's just quickly review the Power BI high level architecture first. So what we had done at the very beginning of this lesson is we took our work in the form of the PBX file and published it into the Power BI service using the published process. Once the work was actually in the Power BI service, which was accessible through a web browser, it is almost instantaneously made available to the Power BI Mobile app, so if you have the mobile app installed on a device, you can almost instantaneously get at that content. So some of the features of Power BI Mobile is that you're able to get at your apps. You can get into the workspaces that you've created. You can launch your dashboards and reports. You can view notifications and a few other things as well, but those are the key things that you can do on the mobile device. In a moment here, we're gonna show you creating a dashboard that is optimized for a phone by getting into the mobile view in the actual surface itself. And as a note, you can actually do this mobile configuration down in the desktop as well. Now we didn't cover it in this course. Okay, so let's go ahead and get ourselves to our service account again. Okay, so what we're gonna do is come back over to our dashboard and on the edit command right here and click this dropdown, and I can over here to mobile view, which is gonna take us to a emulator view of what your report, or dashboard in this case, will look like on a mobile device. So I can go ahead here and rearrange the tiles if I want. Maybe there's some tiles like let's just say this map when I don't want it on the actual dashboard in the mobile device, I can click that pin there and it will remove it from there, and then we can have our dashboard looking like this. I can go back here and actually click reset tiles, which is gonna reset them back to the original size and order, and once I'm all finished with that stuff, then I can actually head back out of the phone view over to the web view. So I can move out of this and back over to what the dashboard would look like for the web. Okay, so that's all we really wanted to show you in terms of things that you could do with Power BI Mobile in terms of doing some reconfiguration of the layout for the mobile device, showing you how to go about doing that, and also, just kind of listing off some of the key features that are available within Power BI Mobile. And with that, we're at the end of this sublesson.