We embedded a report into web application and now a user want to build his
own dashboard from the report but pin a tile to dashboard option is
not available can we embed pin to dashboard option? Can we handle it
in API?
As we have email subscription (scheduled) for reports in power bi
service, how will we handle the same in our embedded application
side, if the user want to see the updated reports on daily basis which
should be scheduled automatically?
Power BI Embedded (PBIE) is PaaS, so you have to write you own code to handle some cases using official and legal SDK. PBIE doesn't work the same way as Power BI Services (PBIS).
As for you questions:
You can't do the same thing with pinning visuals into dashboard. It supported only inside PBIS.
You can't do this neither.
PBIE is more like engine, some core things that draw specific report into you app. There are no any features like report sharing or subscription. This is by design. Those features were implemented as part of PBIS and doesn't fit PBIE. You should implement something similar on your app level.
Play with PBIE and explore SDK playground.
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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 have published an application that i did with power Bi, for some charts I want to make data downloadable for users.
I couldn't find any straight forward way to do that, some sites talk about implementing a script for that.
Is there any real way for published application that works?
One of the limitations of Publish to web is the inability to export 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. Learn more about user owns data.
Exporting data is possible, if you publish your report in Power BI Online and share it with your colleagues. But keep in mind, that even in this case it may not be possible or allowed, due to these limitations, e.g. if it has been disabled, or the user doesn't have enough permissions. In addition, it has limits on maximum columns, rows and data size.
The best option is to export the data directly from the data source, which is used to build this report.
I have a WPF application which has lot of canned queries. Recently, I came across Power BI QnA and its very impressive.
I would like to know, if Microsoft QnA maker provides similar capability which can be integrated with .Net applications. This would help to make the query feature more flexible.
You can use the capabilities of Power BI QnA in your .net application using Power BI Embedded QnA:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/qanda
browse the capabilities Power BI Embedded gives you in: http://aka.ms/pbijs
Also, you can attach Bot Framework to display a Power BI Embedded Report (or QnA).
Note that in the near future there is probably going to be access to a REST API providing you the ability to use it anyway you'd like, including QnA Maker
We are working Power BI Reports and we are new in Power BI. For embed Power BI reports in our web application we want to choose Rest APIs.
Is it possible that we subscribe only one Power BI Pro account and publish our all reports and it could be available for all end-users with access token?
Technically that's possible, but I'm not sure if it's ok from licensing point of view.
I mean, Power BI Premium was released so that not all of the people in the organization should need Pro licenses. With Premium you're able to create and publish a report with a single Pro license and everybody else viewing the report can be Free-license users. The report might contain some Pro-freatures (like a gateway connection to on-premise) and it's still viewable to Free-users.
Premium isn't cheap, but it might work in some middle to large size organizations.
Another way to publish a report to multiple users is to use Publish to web -feature (https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-publish-to-web/), but it's got some limitations and security related issues.
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.