Referring back to Figure 1, Panes are contextual within the Power BI application. Only one pane, the Fields pane, is omnipresent. This pane displays a list of tables, columns, and measures present within the data model.

Other panes include the following:

• Filters: The Filters pane is available within the Report view and displays a list of filters currently active on reports, pages, and visualizations.
• Visualizations: The Visualizations pane is also available when in the Report view and provides access to the various visualization types available within the report. Sub-panes exist for configuring and formatting visualizations and adding analytics to visualizations, as well as configuring filters and drillthrough capabilities for reports, pages, and visualizations.
• Bookmarks, Selection, Sync Slicers, Field Properties: The Bookmarks, Selection, Sync Slicers, and Field Properties panes are only available while in Report view and provide additional capabilities that we will explore later.
• Properties: The Properties pane is only present in the Model view. This pane provides the ability to associate metadata (data about data) for various fields or columns within the tables of the data model. This includes the ability to specify synonyms and descriptions as well as data types, data categories, and default aggregations or summarizations.