I am trying to understand the best way of creating a monthly report which will be looking for the previous month's data and allow approvers to enter their comments and approve each slicer (location) in the filter section. I have PowerBI reports which already set and have the data I need. What would be the best approach to take allowing users (there is a user permission list in excel which look for each user's location and approval location) to enter their comments and approve each location? I was thinking of using the PowerBI report as my source and running power automate flows for running approvals in power apps. Any suggestions?
I am trying to clean up my Power BI Data Gateway Data Sources. How can I find data on which published reports use which data sources, and statistics on refresh times and failures?
as per the docs:
Prerequisites
You need a Power BI Pro or Premium Per User (PPU) license to access and run the metrics reports. However, the usage metrics feature captures usage information from all users.
To access these metrics the report must be in a modern workspace and you must have edit access to that report.
Your Power BI admin must have enabled usage metrics for content creators.
Only users with admin, member, or contributor permissions can view the improved usage metrics report.
Create the report
Open the workspace that contains the report for which you want to analyze the usage metrics.
Open the context menu of the report and select View usage metrics report.
-- The first time you do this, Power BI creates the usage metrics report and lets you know when it's ready.
Reported Metrices
Page
Metric
Description
Report usage
Report views/Report opens
A Report View is recorded each time someone opens a report and represents unique landings on the report. It answers the question, "How often is the report accessed?" This definition of a Report View differs from previous usage metrics reports. Changing report pages is no longer considered an additional Report View. Instead, changing report pages counts for the next metric, Report Page Views. Activities such as sharing and pinning are no longer considered in usage metrics.
Report usage
Report Page views
A Report Page View is recorded every time someone views a report page. It represents total views across any pages. It answers the question, "How often are report pages accessed?" So changing report pages counts for Report Page Views. See Considerations and Limitations for important details.
Report usage
Unique viewers
A viewer is someone who opened the report at least once during the time period (based on the AAD user account).
Report usage
View trend
The view trend reflects view count changes over time. It compares the first half of the selected time period with the second half.
Report usage
Date slicer
You can change the time period on the Report usage page, such as to calculate week-over-week or biweekly trends. In the lower left corner of the Report usage page, you can determine the earliest and latest date for which usage data is available for the selected report.
Report usage
Rank
Based on view count, the rank shows the popularity of a report in comparison to all other reports in the organization. A rank of 1 would mean the report has the most views of all reports in the organization.
Report usage
Report views per day
Total number of Report Views per day. Counted at report level, does not consider Report Page Views.
Report usage
Report viewers per day
Total number of different users who viewed the report (based on the AAD user account).
Report usage
Distribution method
How users got access to the report, such as being members of a workspace, having the report shared with them, or installing an app.
Report usage
Platform slicer
If the report was accessed via the Power BI service (powerbi.com), Power BI Embedded, or a mobile device.
Report usage
Users with report views
Shows the list of users who opened the report sorted by view count.
Report usage
Pages
If the report has more than 1 page, slice the report by the page(s) that was viewed. "Blank" means either a report page was added within 24 hours of the new page appearing in the slicer list, or report pages have been deleted. "Blank" captures these types of situations.
Report performance
Typical opening time
The typical report opening time corresponds to the 50th percentile of the time it takes to open the report. In other words, it is the time below which 50% of the open-report actions are completed. The Report performance page also breaks down the typical report opening time by consumption method and browser type. At present, we measure the performance for the initial report load and first page viewed. The measurement starts when the report is requested and ends when the last visual completes rendering. Report interactions such as slicing, filtering, or changing pages are not included in performance metrics.
Report performance
Opening time trend
The opening time trend reflects open-report performance changes over time. It compares the opening times for the report of the first half of the selected time period with the opening times of the second half.
Report performance
Date slicer
You can change the time period on the Report performance page, such as to calculate week-over-week or biweekly trends. In the lower left corner of the Report performance page, you can determine the earliest and latest date for which usage data is available for the selected report.
Report performance
Daily performance
The performance for 25%, 50%, and 75% of the open report actions calculated for each individual day.
Report performance
seven-day performance
The performance for 25%, 50%, and 75% of the open report actions calculated across the past seven days for each date.
Report performance
Consumption method
How users opened the report, such as via the Power BI service (powerbi.com), Power BI Embedded, or a mobile device.
Report performance
Browsers
What browser the users used to open the report, such as Firefox, Edge, and Chrome.
I would like a monthly report that would update all pages based on a slicer from one page.
On one of the pages I encounter an issue because I only want one of the visuals to be affected of the "master slicer".
Page with "Master Slicers"
Page where I only want the top visual to affected, the second I would like to see all months
Make the synchronized slicer visible on the target page.
Use Format>Edit Interactions to configure the slicer to not filter selected visuals on the target page.
Edit the sync slicer to not be visible on the target page.
I have created Power BI reports using various visualizations and filter options. But from what I know, I've only been able to pin the visuals to the Dashboards and not the filter options. Is that correct? Or can we actually add filters, especially the checkboxes and the drop-down lists, on the final dashboards as well?
You can use 'Slicer' option in the visualization pane to get some similar options that you have in filter pane.
Per Microsoft website:
No. Can't filter or slice a dashboard. Can filter a dashboard tile in
focus mode, but can't save the filter.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/service-dashboards
Power BI "Dashboards" are not meant to have the same features as "Reports". The Dashboards are supposed to be high-level snapshots with low-level of interactivity. If you want more details, you click on one of the visual to go to the "Report"
According to this link, it's now possible to preview a new function in Power BI Premium: Paginated Reports (Reporting Services / rdl files).
When administrating my capacity settings, I don't see the option to enable "Paginated Reports (Preview)". Is this available in North Europe?
We only see the option to enable "Dataflows".
Answering my own question. According to Christopher Finlan: "it's still getting rolled out to all the regions worldwide. Give it another day or two."