Help your Power BI report users with an Information Panel

Do your Power BI users understand your report? Chances are, at least not all of it. Help them out with an information panel to help describe the report and understand all of the capabilities. Adam walks you through how to do it in Power BI Desktop!


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[RQQ]

To remove the transparent borders and make the info panel overlay fill the entire screen in Power BI, follow these steps:

1. Select the "Info Panel Overlay" image that you have inserted from the "Selection" Panel.
2. Open the "Format" panel and select "General" -> "Properties" -> "Padding".
3. Change the value of "Padding" from the default 5px to 0px.

The issue is within Power BI, not PowerPoint, Photoshop, whatever you used etc.

[tomkochka]

As a relative newbie (only been working with PBI for about a month now) I find your videos super informative. Thank you!

[saral.martin]

This was just what I needed today. I ended up doing the info shapes in Power BI. In my world, no report is ever done, so that made it more easily manageable for the future. Callouts are harder to control in Power BI, but it can be done.

[Adi_]

Seriously, this is B A N A N A S!! Creativity has no limit. Thanks a ton Adam!

[ashleylambe]

I just created this last night! I was too excited after watching your previous video around this, so thought I'd take a stab at it. I actually referenced your video from 2019 on creating a slicer panel, and created the transparent overlay + text boxes/images with shadows to get a similar effect. It is such a simple concept, but extremely valuable for the end user. Thank you Adam!! That's BANANAS!!!

[gurpreetmann]

Just applied this to a report... Its amazing! A great way to encourage users and build confidence without documentation!

[ronald]

Tu canal es lo mejor que e visto en todo youtube, sigue haciéndolo bien, muchas gracias por todo. Saludos desde Chile.

[NathanBlevins]

This is a super helpful tutorial. I come back to it often. :) One tip: Adam suggests that, if you don't like the borders, you need to get some image editing software. One easy way to work around this is to just to resize your powerpoint slides. Design ==> Slide Size. By trimming up to the size of the slides, you can scale this to a near perfect fit.

[zitta]

Awesome tutorial! Thanks a lot!
FYI: The edges are there because the image has added 5px padding in PowerBi and not in PPT. You can remove that int the Format Image > General > Properties > Padding.

[jidi]

Great tip, saves time in creating a separate guidance document. I set the PPT to have transparent background, then just set the background of the image in PBI to the color I want and 80% transparent. Solves the stroke issue, as well as allows me to change the color of needed without having to create another PNG.

[taylorkoep]

This is super helpful and I think will add a lot of value to end-user without having to explain and train people on what things mean. Thanks for the tutorial!

[andyparkerson]

I knew that PowerPoint was a vital part of the PowerApps family!

[sue_bayes]

love it :), do this all the time but hadn't thought of taking a screenshot of the canvas to use as a guide and then delete it ... duh me, how many clicks have you saved me

[sbrophy]

This is fantastically genius and yet so simple, love it!

[molloarden]

At 4:31 right click to save won't work after control A to select all objects

[AmplifiedYeesh]

The "edge" in Powerpoint, is just because your shape has a stroke :) All you need to do is remove the stroke of the shape and you won't have an edge

[AmritaOSullivan]

This is frikkin brilliant! Thank you. So simple and will transform any report!

[saikirankusumanchi]

have been doing this just using pbi desktop, we have the message box(shape) and a overlay rectangle (Transparency can be controlled in pbi). But your way is also good

[phanatik]

This is awesone. Thank you
One remark, after publishing and transform into app, you don't need the CTRL to open it. A simple click will do.

[rosswaterston]

Great idea, simple to implement and anything that helps your consumers understand the content is worth its weight in gold!