We're currently developing Power BI dashboards using Power BI Desktop and Power BI Server for hosting. At the same time we have SSRS reports hosted on SSRS server. We now would like to add Power BI paginated reports as it has richer graphic features comparing to SSRS. So I've got questions about Power BI Reports:
For hosting, do we need to install separate Power BI Report Server or Power BI Server that currently hosts dashboards can be re-used?
For developing reports, can Power BI Desktop be used for paginated reports' creation or additional software needs to be installed?
What is file extension for paginated reports - pbix (like Power BI dashboards) or rdl (like SSRS reports)?
Can Power BI Reports be hosted by SSRS server?
Appreciate your help.
I think I can help on a few of these points:
No, you host them in a workspace and or App on your server. But you need to user Premium Per User License.
Download and install Power BI Paginated Report Builder:
PBI Report Builder
It creates RDL files.
I'm not sure but I think they should be able to as I think they both produce RDL files. Please feel free to correct.
Hope this helps.
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I'm using Power bi report server. I'm exploring the mobile app based access and came across the following link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/consumer/mobile/mobile-apps-offline-data#considerations-and-limitations
In the Power BI mobile apps, you can't see Power BI Desktop (.pbix)
files saved to Power BI Report Server.
Does power bi mobile app not support viewing power bi reports published to the power bi report server?
The documentation says it only when it's offline. If you are online you can view your reports in the mobile app.
Link on How to connect Report server and Mobile apps -
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/consumer/mobile/mobile-app-ssrs-kpis-mobile-on-premises-reports
I am looking for a way to embed a report published in on premise Power BI Report Server onto an internal web application. The problem is, not all users of the internal web application has privileges to view the report on the Power BI Report Server. So, I am looking to route the web application user to the Power BI Report using a single user who has all the privileges on the Power BI Report Server.
Appreciate any help in advance.
Kind Regards,
NZM
My organization has bought Power BI licenses, Pro licenses for developers and Premium for standard user to view reports and dashboards.
Now it is my responsibility to configure these licenses so users can view developed reports.
Considering I have limited Power BI configuration experience I am stuck at the moment.
I have published my report and configured data gateway.
I am stuck at the point of sharing the report with other users.
When other users try to connect to Power BI cloud they get invalid password (all users the same)
Which made me think it is applying licenses to these users.
I am not sure how to do that and other resources such as this link
Tells me to add them when I click on Share Report which does not work the same way the link shows
The link shows this screen:
While I get this one:
How can I give users premium permission to Power BI
Sharing Power BI reports happens in the browser, i.e. in the Power BI Service. Your second screenshot is from Power BI desktop, taken while publishing a report to the Service. After publishing the report, you need to go to the Power BI Service (app.PowerBI.com) and from there you can share the report with users.
We develop a windows application that gets deployed with a SQL Server database to client's sites. On the site they may use SQL Server Express or a better version, depending upon their data needs, most would have Express.
We would like to embed and distribute Power BI files (pbix) in to our application. The Power BI files would connect to the client's own instance of SQL Server to obtain the data. Is this possible? If so, how do we go about doing this?
Very possible to do.
Embedding Power BI reports requires either Power BI Report Server (an enhanced SSRS) or Power BI Portal services. The report is embedded in an IFRAME or other embedded web browser. (They are HTML, CSS and JavaScript.)
Licensing will be a consideration for your project. While the Power BI Desktop client is free, the Power BI Report Server and the hosting of reports from the cloud are not. The users who publish the reports will need a Power BI Pro subscription. If you are looking for a free or inexpensive embedded report solution, this is not it.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/power-bi-embedded/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedding
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/azure-pbie-what-is-power-bi-embedded
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/power-bi-embedded/
I have been using SSRS and .Net framework to create reports for my applications.
Now I want to generate reports and create dashboards using Power BI Embedded. But the documentation/demos for Power BI always say that we need to create Power BI services on Azure. I wonder if there was any way to do this without Azure.
I referred to this link
but the answers there have no approvals/comments,please help.
You may want to take a look at Power BI Report Server. It is a super-set of SSRS, which can host Power BI reports. For more information you can start from these articles:
Power BI Report Server
What is Power BI Report Server?
Quickstart: Embed a Power BI Report Server report using an iFrame in SharePoint Server
Essentially, embedding reports with Power BI Report Server is performed by adding "rs:embed=true" parameter to the report's URL.
Look at Embedding for your Organization in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedding