Creating Report Backgrounds for Power BI

Creating Report Backgrounds for Power BIPower BI allows you to create amazing visualizations from your data. You can easily get carried away and create hundreds of different combinations.  Once you have worked out the best way to summarize and display your data, chances are your Power BI report screen will look something like this:My report above […]

Downloadable background templates for your Power BI reports

Downloadable background templates for Power BI reportsPower BI allows you to create amazing visualizations from your data. Once you have worked out the best way to summarize and display your data, adding a background image can make your dashboard really stand out. At the bottom of this post, you will find some free background templates […]

Summarizing DocRead tasks in Power BI

Summarizing DocRead Task Information in Power BIAll of the DocRead task data is stored in a SQL database, meaning that it is available for further analysis and reporting with Power BI. Here’s how to create a summary of all DocRead tasks showing the reading status (assigned, completed, overdue) in Power BI. The end result will look […]

Create a Reporting Hierarchy in Power BI

Create a Reporting Hierarchy in Power BI Creating hierarchies in your Power BI data provides opportunities to further enhance reporting capabilities. For instance, Power BI will automatically calculate a date hierarchy. This will allow you to drill down from annual data, to quarters, months and days. You can also create bespoke hierarchies within your data to […]

Advanced DocRead reporting with Power BI

Advanced DocRead reporting with Power BI  The DocRead reporting suite provides several reports to help you manage your compliance tasks. The out-of-the-box reporting options allow administrators and line managers to track progress with real-time reports. Whilst powerful out of the box, it’s impossible for the suite to cover more customised reporting requirements. That’s where Power BI comes […]

How to get your DocRead data into Power BI

How to import your DocRead data into Power BI The DocRead reporting suite provides several different reports to help you manage your compliance tasks. The out of the box reporting options allow administrators and line managers to track progress with real time reports. For more in-depth reporting needs linking your DocRead databases to Power BI […]

Display the status of DocRead reading tasks

Display the status of DocRead reading tasks I’m currently trying to learn the basics of Power BI to try and replicate some of my existing reports. I figured I would learn faster by trying help our customers making the most out of DocRead rather than following a set training course covering information I don’t need […]

Keeping track of compliance tasks for new hires in Power BI

Keeping track of compliance tasks for new hires with Power BI Ensuring all of your compliance tasks are completed on time and by the right people can be complicated. Additional complexity arises when new people join the organization, or move within it. However, as with a lot of things, a little control and planning can minimize […]

SharePoint Document Reading Dashboard for Power BI

Rich SharePoint content insights with DocRead and Power BIDocRead is an add-on for SharePoint that allows you to target and track content to the right users in your organization.DocRead comes with a report suite that is accessed from the DocRead admin pages inside SharePoint. Whilst powerful out of the box, it’s impossible for the suite […]

Creating a SharePoint Document Library Dashboard

Creating a SharePoint document library dashboardSharePoint provides excellent opportunities to create document repositories. You may already have several document libraries containing all of your important company information. Policies, procedures, SOP’s, and lots of other types of documents can be stored safely and securely in SharePoint.  This in itself leads to more problems! How do your users […]