I see that it is very complicated to get an embedded view for a dashboard in Power BI.
For reports, they generate a link for an embed view. So simple. There's no option for that within Power BI for dashboards.
Is there a way that a dashboard can be embedded? I am not familiar with packages or visual studio. If anyone can please guide me through the process step by step, if possible. I have checked documentations from Microsoft and it seems a bit complex. I have downloaded visual studio already. Now I am just stuck from there. I have a Power BI account already.
My main goal is to obtain/generate a link so that my dashboard can be embedded. Please help if possible. I greatly appreciate it!
You can only embedded reports, not dashboards into, for example, SharePoint and Teams.
If you wish to embed dashboards or reports or components from them you will need Power BI Embedded or Premium, to allocate the workspace to a capacity, and have to create your own web portal to display them.
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I'v been assigned the task to research Power BI Service platform to see if it is useful for the company I'm working at. I have a Power BI Pro license and basically my goal is to create several reports and dashboards from disparate data sources such as REST APIs, mongodb, SQL Server, csv and excel files.
I would like to create the mentioned datasets directly from the Power BI service website but I see that I only can create datasets from csv or excel files. And if I select SQL Server, it asks me to download Power BI Desktop client. The other type of data sources that I need are not even mentioned.
My question is if Power BI Desktop is required to develop and configure datasets for the Power BI service, because to begin with it is a windows only application.
Yes you are. The desktop version provides the full power of the software. You can learn a TON of things from this guy on YouTube and also from these guys in a cube. I'm willing to bet you can search the questions you have & can find specific example videos that'll help you determine if this software is right your company. In my opinion, when it comes to data visualization software, it's tough to beat Power BI. That's especially true if your company is on Office 365.
As a tip, it's important to note what kind of data sources you need to communicate with. And are those sources in a cloud or on premise. That's important depending on how "live" you want your data to be.
The main use of Power BI Desktop (Windows only application) is to get the data from the sources into data model, then load it to the service. The data connections and the ability to create reports is limited compared to the service. The main goal of the service is to share the reports and collaboration.
For example there is no realtionship designer in the service to connect the imported entities. You can create a report in the desktop and load it to the service, and then create other reports from its dataset in the service.
You can create dataflows in the service to get data from flat files, and databases, but you then use Desktop to connect to them and link them together there.
I repeatedly get tasked to create architecture diagrams for the workflow and flow of data when publishing reports from Power BI Desktop to PowerBI.com. I often have to create diagrams showing how Power BI Embedded works and the architecture mirroring work spaces. I have been resorting to zooming in on PowerBI.com to take screen shots for icons like Workspaces, Apps, Reports, Datasets, Dataflows, Dashboards, Row-Level Security, etc... Wondering if anyone has a library of these icons I could use? A library of icons for Power Apps and Power Automate would be helpful as well. Thanks!
I installed Power BI Gateway in order to use SQL directly in my Dashboard. I published the report and found that none of my colleagues could view it without a Pro License. I tried everything but can't get rid of the so called "power BI pro content" in my dashboard.
So I uninstalled the gateway software and reinstalled Power BI.
I tested by creating a very basic report with one line chart linking to excel. Even this report can't be viewed by my colleagues because "it contains pro content".
As it turns out, ALL dashboards (even created by my colleagues) give this warning when I try to share it.
This is driving me nuts. Please can someone help.
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The documentation for what counts as Power BI Pro content is here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-power-bi-pro-content-what-is-it/
Some key tripping points: anything with a scheduled refresh that uses a gateway, or that refreshes more than daily counts as Pro. Anything posted to a group workspace or shared via an organizational content pack count as Pro too.
Bear in mind that a dashboard only needs one tile from a "Pro" report to be considered Pro.
In an enterprise setting, where your data is coming from SQL on-premises, it'd be hard to avoid pro content. Your data would have to be imported into Power BI Desktop, and refreshed & republished manually. You couldn't use direct query mode, a gateway, automatic refresh, group workspaces, or organizational content packs.
It's hard to comment specifically on why your very basic Excel report contains pro content. If you're sure it doesn't meet any of the documented reasons, click the Smile at the top-right of PowerBI.com and Submit an Issue. Microsoft should be able to tell you.
Note: What makes content pro could easily change in the future, so although I highlighted some common tripping points, I do recommend referring to the linked documentation for the definitive answer.
I have read a little bit about Power BI and it looks like a great tool. I need to provide reports/dashboard in the way that client would see my branding, is it possible? It looks like it works for webpages as you can use the embedded power bi functionality, but what with mobile bi experience. Let's say with the power bi app, is there a way to creat a clone of this application with your own branding and different name (rather than power bi app)? If it doesn't work can i somehow use PowerApps? Can I create my own let's say iphone app using PowerApps which shows reports/dashboards? How does it work with regards to security, can I have 2 factor authentication?
The more complicated scenerio which I really would like to achieve is to a webpage which has 2 pages, one with embedded Power BI and another one with SSRS reports. What is the best way to achieve that? It would be great if a user needs to login to the page only once?
I would appreciate your indications what is possible and what not and how current companies deal with such issues.
Regards,
Rafal
Your best bet is Power BI Embedded. As you say, it allows you to embed Power BI reports into externally facing mobile apps or websites. More information: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/power-bi-embedded-what-is-power-bi-embedded/
To complete your more complicated scenario, you can use the Report Viewer control to embed SSRS reports into a website: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa337090.aspx. In terms of logging in, both Power BI Embedded & Report Viewer allow your application to authenticate behind the scenes against their respective services. End user security is left to your app/website to handle.
Re-branding the existing Power BI mobile app is a no-go. It comes as-is.
Power Apps can be used to collect data that is then loaded into Power BI, but I've never heard of Power BI tiles/reports being embedded into a Power App.
All these technologies are rapidly evolving, though. What's true today could easily change as features are added & feedback is received.
Does Microsoft POWER BI work in-house without relying on cloud technology? How is it done?
Here is one way: Download Power BI Desktop. Create .pbix documents. Share as you would an Excel workbook.
Use on-premises or external data sources that you have access to. For example, access a SQL Server database using Windows integrated security if so configured; or use the "page scraping" feature to pull a table off of a web page. The data is stored in the .pbix and can be manually refreshed.
This is obviously not a very sophisticated or well-managed approach but does have some advantages.
Following on from #Tom's answer, here's the roadmap including on-prem PowerBI that MS published last year.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2015/10/29/microsoft-business-intelligence-our-reporting-roadmap/
The short version is that there appears to be an intention of adding this to SSRS in a future release. But for now, the option we use is to share PowerBI workbooks using PowerBI desktop as #Tom describes.