I am stuck getting power bi embedded working. I keep reading that I need to register an application in Azure/Power BI.
I have an existing web application. Does that mean I can skip this step of creating one? https://app.powerbi.com/embedsetup/AppOwnsData
note: I'm trying to set this up with AppOwnsData, masteruser.
Is this where I add appropriate permisions if adding to an existing one?
and if I am adding permissions to this existing azure app, then does my user need permission to sign in to this particular app or just power bi?
To generate an embedding token for Power BI your application code must first get an access token for Power BI, and to do this you must use the ApplicationId of an application registered in Azure Active Directory.
Tutorial: Embed Power BI content using a sample embed for your customers'
application Step 2 - Register an Azure AD application
You can use an existing AAD Application, but the online wizard creates a new one for you with the appropriate permissions to create a new (additional) AAD App just for Power BI Authentication.
The required permissions are documented here, although you should at least test with the wizard-created application first.
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I am trying to embed a Power BI reports in to our Angular application. We are currently using Identity server to authenticate and get the security token back from Azure Active Directory. Can that token be used in embedding the Power BI reports in to our application or is it mandatory to register a application in azure which will help in embedding reports
You must register an application to establish an identity for your application and specify permissions. Both the access token and the app ID are used when embedding Power BI elements into your application. It is recommended for the actual embedding to also use embed token generated by GenerateTokenInGroup or similar, because the authentication token will be exposed in JavaScript client code of your application and can be seen. AAD tokens can be exploited to call other REST API functions, etc., while embed tokens are valid only for embedding this one element only and expires in less time.
For detailed information how to embed Power BI see Embed reports or dashboards from apps.
To embed Power BI without registering an application, you can use Publish to web or Embed. The first one will give public access to everyone who knows the link (note it has some limitations), while for the second option each user will need Pro account, unless you are using Power BI Premium or Embedded (and note its limitations too).
We have a multi tenant webapp which is used by around 300/400 users and growing. We want to use PowerBI to visualize the data and embed it inside our web app. Our ultimate goal is that each user can have their own dashboard based on their role and if PowerBI allows we also want users to edit dashboards from within the Web App. Is it possible? What should be the best practice to implement it and what type of Power BI license would it require?
App: MVC 5 Azure Web App
Database: Azure SQL database with Row Level Security
It is not possible to edit dashboards in Power BI Embedded, only reports. So lets assume each user will have his own report. When a new user is registered, you can use Clone Report In Group API to provide a standard template report to start with.
When embedding, there are two models - user owns data and app owns data. In the first mode each user needs Power BI Pro license, while in the second you need a single "master" account with Pro license. It is highly recommended to buy a dedicated capacity by purchasing Power BI Premium or Power BI Embedded.
For best practices and details about the implementation, you can read Tutorial: Embed Power BI content into an application for your organization article.
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.
As said in many reference link, in case of embedding the power bi to a application where we are going to build a secure website, we need to embed the Power BI report by publishing the power bi report to Azure Workspace right.
In that case , for registering the power bi report in Azure AD we followed the steps specified in the below link
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/documentation/articles/power-bi-embedded-iframe/
While trying to import the .pbix file using REST API by using the POST request to api.powerbi.com, we were receiving 403 error. Hence we were not able to proceed further with the registeration/upload of PBIX file using Import API.
Also, for standalone or anonymous public embedding website we can go with Power BI Publish to Web option, using this we can get the embed code for the power bi report, which can be embedded into the web page. In case of standalone reports we can use this option to embed the power bi report on to our application, but since in our requirement we need to filter the data based on the user selection on the custom web page, we have to go with option 1 i.e. with publishing the report to AAD (Azure AD). Since we are facing authentication issue, we are unable to proceed with the process further.
Once the report is being publish we havethought of using either Power BI JavaScript or Angular JS API to pass the filter data from custom filter pane to the power BI as shown in the demo site.