Generates written commentary on trends and key points in a Power BI report or one of its visuals, rewriting itself whenever the underlying data changes.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Smart narrative in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
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- Index field attributes
Settings applied to each field in an Azure AI Search index:
searchablefor full text,retrievableto return it,filterablefor exact-match$filter,sortable,facetablefor counts, andkeyfor the unique document ID. - Power BI report
A set of one or more pages of interactive visuals, all drawing on a single semantic model, usually designed in Power BI Desktop (the service can also build them with a smaller feature set) and then published to a workspace.
- Underlying data
Exports, from the Power BI service, a visual's data together with related semantic model data that isn't hidden, all unaggregated. It may require Build permission, and tenant or report settings can switch it off.
Related terms
- Narrative visual
Produces written commentary on a report or page. Copilot mode drafts it from a prompt, which requires paid capacity and permission to edit; Custom mode, previously known as smart narrative, lets you type your own words with dynamic values mixed in.