We develop a windows application that gets deployed with a SQL Server database to client's sites. On the site they may use SQL Server Express or a better version, depending upon their data needs, most would have Express.
We would like to embed and distribute Power BI files (pbix) in to our application. The Power BI files would connect to the client's own instance of SQL Server to obtain the data. Is this possible? If so, how do we go about doing this?
Very possible to do.
Embedding Power BI reports requires either Power BI Report Server (an enhanced SSRS) or Power BI Portal services. The report is embedded in an IFRAME or other embedded web browser. (They are HTML, CSS and JavaScript.)
Licensing will be a consideration for your project. While the Power BI Desktop client is free, the Power BI Report Server and the hosting of reports from the cloud are not. The users who publish the reports will need a Power BI Pro subscription. If you are looking for a free or inexpensive embedded report solution, this is not it.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/power-bi-embedded/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedding
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/azure-pbie-what-is-power-bi-embedded
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/power-bi-embedded/
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I haven't worked with Power BI's paginated reports but I'm trying to migrate from SQL Server to Azure SQL. Getting Power BI per-user licenses just for users to be able to generate a report PDF is prohibitively expensive for us.
Is it possible to use Power BI service API in a similar way to SSRS Report Server where you just make a request to generate the report and return the result?
We don't need to embed the paginated reports... just call the service API with the specified params and return the generated report (like SSRS Report Server).
Really hoping to use a single Premium license for the Azure Active Directory App Service registration to avoid needing to have a per-user license for every user that just needs to click a button and generate an invoice.
Essentially this, but with Power BI Paginated Reports: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/export-a-report-using-url-access?view=sql-server-ver16
I'm asking just to see if I'm wasting my time by digging further into this. Thanks in advance!
We're currently developing Power BI dashboards using Power BI Desktop and Power BI Server for hosting. At the same time we have SSRS reports hosted on SSRS server. We now would like to add Power BI paginated reports as it has richer graphic features comparing to SSRS. So I've got questions about Power BI Reports:
For hosting, do we need to install separate Power BI Report Server or Power BI Server that currently hosts dashboards can be re-used?
For developing reports, can Power BI Desktop be used for paginated reports' creation or additional software needs to be installed?
What is file extension for paginated reports - pbix (like Power BI dashboards) or rdl (like SSRS reports)?
Can Power BI Reports be hosted by SSRS server?
Appreciate your help.
I think I can help on a few of these points:
No, you host them in a workspace and or App on your server. But you need to user Premium Per User License.
Download and install Power BI Paginated Report Builder:
PBI Report Builder
It creates RDL files.
I'm not sure but I think they should be able to as I think they both produce RDL files. Please feel free to correct.
Hope this helps.
I'm new at the Power BI.
I created dashboard on Power BI and I have published to the web
when opening the dashboard on custom URL I need to export the dashboard to excel report
can I do this in Power BI or not
I new I can to do this in Power BI web APP but I need do that in my dashboard URL
thank you
This "custom URL" that you mention makes me think that you used Publish to web. One of the limitations of this feature is that you can't export the data:
Reports using row level security.
Reports using any Live Connection data source, including Analysis Services Tabular hosted on-premises, Analysis Services Multidimensional, and Azure Analysis Services.
Reports shared to you directly or through an organizational content pack.
Reports in a group in which you are not an edit member.
"R" Visuals are not currently supported in Publish to web reports.
Exporting Data from visuals in a report, which has been published to the web.
ArcGIS Maps for Power BI visuals.
Reports containing report-level DAX measures.
Single sign-on data query models.
Secure confidential or proprietary information.
The automatic authentication capability provided with the Embed option doesn't work with the Power BI JavaScript API. For the Power BI JavaScript API, use the user owns data approach to embedding.
You can vote for this feature though.
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.
I have been using SSRS and .Net framework to create reports for my applications.
Now I want to generate reports and create dashboards using Power BI Embedded. But the documentation/demos for Power BI always say that we need to create Power BI services on Azure. I wonder if there was any way to do this without Azure.
I referred to this link
but the answers there have no approvals/comments,please help.
You may want to take a look at Power BI Report Server. It is a super-set of SSRS, which can host Power BI reports. For more information you can start from these articles:
Power BI Report Server
What is Power BI Report Server?
Quickstart: Embed a Power BI Report Server report using an iFrame in SharePoint Server
Essentially, embedding reports with Power BI Report Server is performed by adding "rs:embed=true" parameter to the report's URL.
Look at Embedding for your Organization in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedding