Free desktop software for Windows, used to author paginated reports and publish them to the Power BI service. Those reports are print-ready layouts listing every row of a table; interactive Power BI reports need another tool.
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Terms in this definition
- Power BI service
Power BI's browser-based SaaS component: people publish and share reports and semantic models there, create dashboards and apps, and set up scheduled data refreshes.
- Event
Table in Log Analytics where entries from Windows event logs are kept.
- Power BI
Microsoft's analytics and reporting service. It reaches data held on-premises through the on-premises data gateway.
- Chat message roles
Labels on chat messages: instructions go under system, the person's input under user, the model's previous answers under assistant, and results returned by a called tool under tool (or function).
Related terms
- Paginated report
A Power BI report designed for printing, built in Power BI Report Builder, with a precisely controlled layout that runs over as many pages as it takes to show every row of a table, ready to print or save as PDF.
- RDL
Paginated reports are saved as .rdl files, an XML format describing both layout and how data is retrieved. Power BI Report Builder creates them, and existing SSRS reports in this format can move to Power BI.