Power BI for Developers

Rui Romano

DevScope, BI Team

Rui Romano

Rui.Romano@DevScope.net DevScope @ BI Team Blog

https://ruiromanoblog.wordpress.com

Twitter @RuiRomano

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Agenda

Intro to PowerBI PowerBI Developer Experience Labs

Lab 1 – Create Account Lab 2 – PowerBI Designer Lab 3 – Intro to REST Api’s Lab 4 – PowerShell & PowerBI Lab 5 - .Net & PowerBI

PowerBI?

SaaS Data Service for all your data Unified experience to explore:

Any Data Any Device Anytime & Anywhere

Out of the box connectors to SaaS Solutions Extension to your current BI Investments

PowerBI?

PowerBI Designer

Data Exploration, Modeling & Visualization Tool PowerQuery + PowerPivot + PowerView Free Desktop App (x64 & x86)

PowerBI Basics - DataSets?

DataSource & Data Model Collection of Tables with relationships Created in:

Excel, PowerBI Designer, SaaS Packages or API’s

PowerBI Basics - Reports?

Interactive Visualizations Experience like PowerView

Connects to one DataSet “Pin” individual items to Dashboards Created in:

Browser, Excel, PowerBI Designer and SaaS Packages

PowerBI Basics - Dashboards?

Collection of Tiles that represent what matters most to you

Connects to multiple DataSets & Reports Can be shared Created in:

Browser, SaaS Packages

PowerBI for Developers

pbi_apps@Microsoft.com

Credits: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3551

PowerBI Developer REST APIs

https://api.powerbi.com/beta/myorg /DataSets

GET DataSets - List DataSets POST DataSet – Create DataSet POST Table Rows – Upload Data DELETE Table Rows – Clear All PUT Table – Update Schema More Coming Soon…

/Reports ?

/Dashboards ?

• Standards based• REST• JSON• OAuth

• Cross Platform• Easy to use

GET DataSets

GET https://api.powerbi.com/beta/myorg/datasets

Request Nothing

Response

{ "datasets": [ { "id": "5018fd65-71e6-47cb-8dde-68931545e7b8", "name": "MyMovies" }, { "id": "9862d253-f4a5-4997-9d06-1566aff78d5e", "name": "SQLSaturday_SalesMarketing" }, …]}

POST DataSets

POSThttps://api.powerbi.com/beta/myorg/datasets?defaultRetentionPolicy=None

Request

{ "name": "SalesMarketing", "tables": [ { "name": "Product", "columns": [ { "name": "ProductID", "dataType": "Int64"}, { "name": "Name", "dataType": "string"}, { "name": “Price", "dataType": “double"}, { "name": "IsCompete", "dataType": "bool"}, { "name": "ManufacturedOn", "dataType": "DateTime"} ] } ]}

POST DataSets

POSThttps://api.powerbi.com/beta/myorg/datasets?defaultRetentionPolicy=None

Response

{ "id": "38de2ce4-c3cf-4eda-978f-93339cba1669", "name": "SalesMarketing“}

POST Table Rows

POST https://api.powerbi.com/beta/myorg/datasets/<dataSetId>/tables/<tableName>/rows

Request

{ "rows": [{ "ProductID":1, "Name":"Adjustable Race", "Category":"Components", "IsCompete":true, "ManufacturedOn":"07/30/2014" }, {

"ProductID":2, "Name":“Racing Bike", "Category":“Bikes", "IsCompete":true, "ManufacturedOn":“10/30/2014" }

]}

POST Table Rows

POST https://api.powerbi.com/beta/myorg/datasets/<dataSetId>/tables/<tableName>/rows

Response HTTP Status Code (200 - if everything went OK)

DELETE Table Rows

DELETEhttps://api.powerbi.com/beta/myorg/datasets/<dataSetId>/tables/<tableName>/rows

Request Empty

Response HTTP Status Code (200 - if everything went OK)

PUT Table

PUThttps://api.powerbi.com/beta/myorg/datasets/<dataSetId>/tables/<tableName>

Request

{ "name": "Product", "columns": [ { "name": "ProductID", "dataType": "Int64"}, { "name": "Name", "dataType": "string"}, { "name": “Price", "dataType": “double"}, { "name": "IsCompete", "dataType": "bool"}, { "name": "ManufacturedOn", "dataType": "DateTime"},

{ "name": “NewColumn", "dataType": “double"} ] }

PUT Table

PUThttps://api.powerbi.com/beta/myorg/datasets/<dataSetId>/tables/<tableName>

Response HTTP Status Code (200 - if everything went OK)

Automatic Retention Policy

BasicFIFO Store up to 200.000 rows Affects all the Tables in the DataSet

Not Supported (right now…)

Push data into existing data models Models created by: Excel, PowerBI Designer,…

Create relationships between tables Delete a range of data Delete a dataset Get data from a dataset

Azure AD Application

OAuth Requirement Identification to PowerBI and Users Declares the permissions it needs

For User Consent

Two Types: Native App Web App

OAuth: WebApp + PowerBI

Credits: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3551

OAuth: NativeApp + PowerBI

Credits: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3551

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