I'm exploring apps in Power bi. I have created reports and published them via the app which I can access via the web portal and also from inside the power bi mobile app.
What is the difference between the app described above and a template app?
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I have built a dashboard with Power BI desktop. It is possible to embed that dashboard into my localhost flask application? If yes how?
Yes, you can embed your power bi report in your flask web application. There are two methods to achieve this -
Embedding for your organization - Reference link
Embedding for your customers - Reference link
I will focus on the second method (it will require pro account):
Step 1: Register your power BI application here. Moreover, copy your application id.
Step 2: Then grant permissions to the application in azure portal.
Step 3: Collect the following variable details while performing the the above two steps -
workspace id
report id
tenant id
client id / application id (from step 1)
power bi account username
power bi account password
Step 4: You can use the sample flask web app provided by Microsoft for embedding.(Github link).
In this project you will have to provide the details (collected in step 3) in the file "config.py". However, this method requires a Pro license.
The files that contain embedding code are in the folder Service and Models.
The folder static and templates contains the front-end html and css code. Which you can always change as per your webpage, and the routes are managed in app.py
If you don't own a pro license then you can simply publish the report the on the web (which is not secure and everyone on the internet can view it). Then you will get an iframe code which you can inculcate in the html code of your flask web app (or any other web app).
Hi I'm Using PowerBI Pro version. I have 10 clients and created all their dashboards on my single PowerBI account. I have custom login page where each client can login to their private space and see their dashboard and here I have pasted the secure embed code generated from PowerBI.
It is secure coz it asks to login to powerbi but I cant give my PowerBI account credentials to the client, If I do they is a possibility they can go to PowerBI login page and login using my credentials and see the other 9 clients dashboards and reports.
Is there any way to connect powerbi from code so i can login from my code itself and they can only see the dashboard of their own?
Yes, you need to embed these dashboards and reports into your application, using app owns data scenario.
How to do this is asked many times. See for example Is there any way to embed power bi reports and dashboards in vb.net or C# desktop application with sql server 2008 database?
I have created an native app enabling powerbi service permissions in azure portal going through azure active directory -> app registration. Now I want to create power bi reports, workspace on that created app but if I go to https://app.powerbi.com I can't see that created app on my power bi app.
I am confused here actually how to add power bi reports under that app because I want to access power bi rest api using adal.js lib where I need app id and want to access reports under that app.
Anybody can clear my confusion here?
Your confusion is with the terms "Apps" in Power BI. The app you registered has nothing in common with these. It is a guid, used from Power BI to identify your native app.
When you create a native app, you register it (what you did) and Power BI REST API uses this appID (also called ClientID) to identify your app and the permissions it has. When you call the API, you need an access token. It will be acquired in the context of some user. This user must have rights for the reports you want to access. So simply make a workspace, grant rights to users and publish your reports there. Then you will be able to embed them in your app.
I am new to power bi. I have power bi account there I created some dashboards with some reports, now I want to consume those dashboard and report using power bi rest API (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/)in our own application. Our application we used the .net core for back-end and angular 6 for the front end. We need to call power bi API from the .net core. If I change report in power it should also reflect in our application. I am new so I am not understanding from where to start?
Start by reading these:
Embedding with Power BI
Tutorial: Embed a Power BI report, dashboard, or tile into an application for your customers
Microsoft Power BI Embedded Playground
In essence, you need to authenticate using Azure Active Directory Authentication Libraries (ADAL), obtain the embedUrl of the dashboard, it's id and the id of the group in which it is. It will be loaded in a div section of a html file using the embedded client. For more details look at the official samples. App Owns Data means that for authenticating you are using one account, which your application knows (e.g. user name and password stored in the configuration), while User Owns Data means that each user uses his own Power BI credentials to access the embedded elements.
I am building a web app that connects to Power BI. Using the Power BI Pro desktop client, I see an option to connect to an OData Feed that supports authentication using "Organization account".
Can I build my web app to support such an auth flow? If so how?
P.S: My web app supports multi tenant Azure AD authentication.