I need to do reporting for my client and are looking into Power BI. What I need to do, is create the report and publish it to the client's website for the public. These reports are public knowledge, there is no security risk to distribute it.
The users should be able to see the report on the website and use some filtering options that comes with Power BI.
I have installed Power BI Desktop (free option) and created the report, but I can not 'Save as' to Web - there is no such option.
My questions are:
Do I need a licence to be able to publish to the web.
Once published to the web, will it be displayed on the website to the users with the functionality to filter and drill down even if they do not have Power BI license?
You have two options - Publish to web and to use the API to embed for your customers (a.k.a. app owns data).
In both cases you must publish the report to Power BI Service. You will need an account for that, but even the free one will work for Publish to web case. However, it is way more limited that the actual embedding using the API.
To register an account, you will need a "business e-mail address", i.e. GMail, Outlook, etc. will not work. This is required, because it will create a tenant for this domain, where the administrators in your organization can manage it.
For Publish to web the administrator must explicitly enable that option in the admin portal. Embedding using the API require programming skills, and normally you will need to buy a "dedicated capacity" (i.e. Power BI Embedded or Power BI Premium).
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Publish to web works perfectly, but when I add roles to the report in power BI desktop, then I can't find publish to web in my workspace.
Is there a solution or is it limited to pro users?
One of the limitations of Publish to web is that it does not work with RLS. And if you think about it for a moment, it makes sense. If you implemented RLS in your report, this means that there is sensitive data in it, which should not be visible to some people (or to be visible only to some people, to be precise). But at the same time, you are making this sensitive data public, which makes no sense! And the other side of "public" is that there is no authentication and Power BI doesn't know who is looking at your report, so it can't apply the RLS policies.
One solution is to use Secure embed, but this requires each of the users, who will need access to this report, to have Power BI Pro license.
The best solution is to use the API to embed the report, which is described in Tutorial: Embed Power BI content into an application for your customers.
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You can also look at this question for details how to implement it.
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 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'm a newbie in Power BI..
I need to develop a tabular report (no visualizations) in Power BI and publish it to powerbi app so that client can see live reports.
For that what are the settings we have to do in app.powerbi or powerbi cloud?
When I published a report in my pbi cloud, in the report section, there is an option to publish /embed code. But it says the content will be available to public. So how can we restrict access? Do the client need to have pbi account to share the reports? Please let me know what type of PBI account we have to purchase to meet this requirement.
Also is it mandatory to create dashboard in order to share it to the client? Because report option serves the purpose? Is there any advantages in creating dashboard over reports?
Or do you feel any other suggestions rather than Power BI?
Data format: txt, tab delimited
Type of data: Medical records
Any help on this is greatly appreciated.
Power BI world has different things:
Power BI Desktop (PBID)- this is fat desktop client to create reports. You can use it for free.
Power BI Services (PBIS)- this is SaaS application that allows you create reports and share it. When you open powerbi.com you work with this app. All you reports located in logical containers - workspaces. This container like folder, nothing more. You can publish report from Desktop here into specific workspace. You can embed report from there, but without authentication, thus everyone can see it.
Power BI Embedded (PBIE)- this is PaaS solution to embedded reports into you app. Reports anyway should be stored into some workspace at PBIS. But you app can implement auth and show only specific reports to particular users. All users in you app can see different content and reports, based on your app logic, because you manage access to report via PBIE SDK. Take a look at playground.
So when your users work with PBIS they work with Microsoft Web App, if you want embedded same reports into you app, use PBIE with provided SDKs.
As for licenses. In fact there is only one license type: PRO.
If your users want publish and share reports using PBIS they ALL must have PRO licenses. That the point. You can use all products free unless you want share you reports and analysis. If you need to share you have to pay.
Different thing for PBIE. You implement your app as you wish, you manage you users. They should not have PRO licenses. In fact, you need one license to store you reports. I call this like service account. This is regular PBIS user with PRO license. You use it only for publishing reports and storing it at PBIS and you app use it to load and embedded reports. If you have 1000 users, you can buy 1 license and use it to publish you work and all users will be authenticated in you app, authorization also will be done in your app.
Another thing, that once you go in prod you need to buy capacity - Power BI Embedded Services at Azure. The cost depends on renders. Read more docs on this.
I am newbie to web technology ,so i am not able to get the steps for doing this.
I will have data fetched from data base and do some report generation and dashboarding in power BI.
I need to integrate the dashboards and reports on weekly basis to clients website.
Do i need to generate apis or some other alternatives?
There is the Publish to web option. You can copy either a url to your report or the html code you can then embed wherever you want. You can find Publish to web in the report menu. If it is not there, ask your global admin to activate it in settings.