Power BI Report Builder for Developers — Lesson 1: Paginated Reporting Foundations

Lesson Overview

This lesson develops practical understanding of Paginated Reporting Foundations within the Power BI Report Builder for Developers learning path.

Learners connect the key concepts to a realistic paginated report development with Power BI Report Builder scenario and document the decisions, evidence, risks, and improvement opportunities identified during the activity.

Learning Objectives

• Explain the purpose and role of paginated reporting foundations.
• Apply the lesson concepts to a practical paginated report development with Power BI Report Builder requirement.
• Recognize security, governance, operational, and quality considerations.
• Validate the result and recommend appropriate next steps.

Topics Covered

• Report Builder interface
• report definition concepts
• data sources and datasets
• report structure

Hands-On Activity

1. Review the scenario, stakeholders, current process, requirements, and expected outcome.
2. Prepare the required Microsoft environment, design, query, report, script, or configuration.
3. Complete the guided implementation and record important decisions and dependencies.
4. Test the outcome using functional, security, data-quality, and operational checks.
5. Document issues, corrective actions, evidence, and an improvement recommendation.

Validation Checklist

• The solution or analysis matches the documented requirement.
• Configuration, calculations, queries, scripts, or workflows produce the expected result.
• Security, access, governance, data quality, and operational impacts are reviewed.
• Errors and limitations are documented with clear corrective actions.
• The final output includes reusable notes and practical next steps.

Lesson Outcome

After completing this lesson, learners can explain, apply, and validate paginated reporting foundations in a realistic workplace scenario.