I have built a dashboard with Power BI desktop. It is possible to embed that dashboard into my localhost flask application? If yes how?
Yes, you can embed your power bi report in your flask web application. There are two methods to achieve this -
Embedding for your organization - Reference link
Embedding for your customers - Reference link
I will focus on the second method (it will require pro account):
Step 1: Register your power BI application here. Moreover, copy your application id.
Step 2: Then grant permissions to the application in azure portal.
Step 3: Collect the following variable details while performing the the above two steps -
workspace id
report id
tenant id
client id / application id (from step 1)
power bi account username
power bi account password
Step 4: You can use the sample flask web app provided by Microsoft for embedding.(Github link).
In this project you will have to provide the details (collected in step 3) in the file "config.py". However, this method requires a Pro license.
The files that contain embedding code are in the folder Service and Models.
The folder static and templates contains the front-end html and css code. Which you can always change as per your webpage, and the routes are managed in app.py
If you don't own a pro license then you can simply publish the report the on the web (which is not secure and everyone on the internet can view it). Then you will get an iframe code which you can inculcate in the html code of your flask web app (or any other web app).
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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.
Hi I'm Using PowerBI Pro version. I have 10 clients and created all their dashboards on my single PowerBI account. I have custom login page where each client can login to their private space and see their dashboard and here I have pasted the secure embed code generated from PowerBI.
It is secure coz it asks to login to powerbi but I cant give my PowerBI account credentials to the client, If I do they is a possibility they can go to PowerBI login page and login using my credentials and see the other 9 clients dashboards and reports.
Is there any way to connect powerbi from code so i can login from my code itself and they can only see the dashboard of their own?
Yes, you need to embed these dashboards and reports into your application, using app owns data scenario.
How to do this is asked many times. See for example Is there any way to embed power bi reports and dashboards in vb.net or C# desktop application with sql server 2008 database?
I have a web application in which Azure Active Directory authentication is implemented.
Now I am embedded my Power BI reports in this Web Application using Secure Embed Option.
Whenever a user logs into the web application, he sees a separate sign in button on the Power BI reports after successful login into Web Application.
Is there a way to automatically signin into Power BI reports using the currently logged in user.
Currently logged in user has access to both Azure AD as well as Power BI.
Secure embed option is used to embed a report in a given iframe where every user would need to sign-in within the iframe.
In order to provide a single sign-on experience, you would need to use the user login authentication to generate an access token.
Generating access tokens -
C# - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/get-azuread-access-token
JS - (Using ADAL) https://github.com/AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-library-for-js
This access token can then be used to embed reports within an HTML container (for example, a div element) using the Power BI embedded JS library.
When the token is created as per the different users logging in, then such implementation is called as 'User Owns Data'.
Sample code and summary - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embed-sample-for-your-organization
Embed setup tool for user owns data: https://app.powerbi.com/embedsetup/UserOwnsData
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.
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.