I am creating a report in Power BI, where some data is imported from a cloud storage system. There is also a local data source (an excel sheet) being used.
My question is, if I publish this report on Power BI service and share it with someone, will they be able to see visuals using local data source as well?
There is also possibility of using Sharepoint. I can create a team in Sharepoint with the local excel file and use that as a source in Power BI. Am I correct in assuming this way people in my sharepoint team will be able to see all data in the report?
For your scenario with a spreadsheet from a desktop and a cloud data source:
If you prepare the report using import mode in PowerBI desktop and publish it to PowerBI online, then that report data will be visible to all users with access to the report in the provisioned workspace. The caveat is that data will not be able to be refreshed from the Excel file once the report is deployed online. When you create the report on your desktop, you have access to the cloud data and the spreadsheet, then a copy of that data is published to the PowerBI service. When PowerBI service is set to refresh, then it can't connect to your desktop and causes the issue.
To solve this you either need a personal or standard gateway. This provides the technology for PowerBI to connect to your on-premise (standard gateway) or on-desktop (personal mode) data. Once the gateway is in place, PowerBI can pull data in to the cloud from an on-premise network or a personal desktop to refresh reports.
The other alternative is, as you mention, putting the excel in SharePoint online. This effectively makes the spreadsheet a "cloud data source" and can be refreshed from PowerBI service without the need for a gateway.
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I want to provide access to data from a DataWareHouse to several users of my company. I need to create a dataset with filtered data and then I want to provide to granted users access to those data inside Excel on Mac Os.
I don't know if this is possible as the feature "Analyze on Excel" is not available for download on Mac Os.
Any ideas?
Connection to the Power BI datasets via Power Query, can't be done on Excel for MacOS as it is not supported. Power Query for MacOS Excel is limited to csv, json and d few others. Power Pivot for MacOS isn't available.
You can connect to OLAP sources like SQL Server Tabular using this paid for option, but only for On-premise SSAS, or Azure Analysis Service. If you have Power BI Premium, the CDATA plugin might be able to connect to the xmla endpoint of the dataset.
The other option is create the filtered data model with PBI Desktop on Windows and deploy it to the service, then to give them access to the Power BI Service. The user can then create their own reports, or export the data via csv, but the export size it limited to 100,000 rows.
For Mac users Power BI is mostly limited to viewing/creating the reports in the service.
I have power bi configured on Azure, a dataset reading its data from excel document which is updated on daily basis.
The refresh is done manually through powerbi desktop. After I click on refresh, my reports and dashboards are reading updated figures, I open it from power bi desktop; however if I open it from any browser, data is not updated, I will have to publish my power bi reports and dashboards from power bi desktop publish button in order to see my data updated from browser.
Power BI desktop is the development tool for powerbi.com, after you have published it to powerbi.com, it has no relation with your offline .pbix file. Publishing it again (with the same name), will overwrite the file with it's data.
So a local refresh in power bi desktop has no influence on the file in powerbi.com
If you want that powerbi.com can read data from your excel file (on Premise), you'll have to setup a powerbi gateway. More information on following link:
Power BI gateway personal mode
On-premises data sources
A personal gateway is required in order to refresh datasets that get data from a supported on-premises data source in your organization.
With a gateway, REFRESH NOW and SCHEDULE REFRESH are supported for datasets uploaded from:
Microsoft Excel 2013 (or later) workbooks where Power Query or Power Pivot is used to connect to and query data from a supported on-premises data source. All on-premises data sources shown in Get External Data in Power Query or Power Pivot support refresh except for Hadoop file (HDFS) and Microsoft Exchange.
I had to uninstall my "on-premises data gateway (personal mode) and reinstall updated version. it is working now.
Is it possible to have Power BI Reports in a VMs local repository in Azure? How about the report access being on the VM's local repository?
Lets say our VM's local address in Azure is 10.0.2.1.
When distributing a Power BI dashboard or report the link that is being sent or accessed is for example: https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=asubisdiucibsdibciasb:
This means the viewing of the Power BI report is not on the Azure VM local repository
We want it so that we can view these reports on our Azure VM Local repository like so https://10.0.2.1:8080/powerbi/usagereports/report1
In this way we are not going through Powerbi.com to view the reports but just our own links/repositories.
Thanks
Power BI reports can be deployed to the Power BI Service (app.powerbi.com) or Power BI Embedded (an Azure service that does not run on a VM). With either of those options you can use REST APIs to embed the reports in a website that's running on a VM (but that's still possibly not what you want because it is still reaching out to an external Power BI service to render the report).
I would suggest you look at the new Preview of Power BI reports in Reporting Services that will ship with SQL Server vNext. It may do what you want.
Situation: I have a Power BI desktop workbook with a data source connection to Azure Data Lake storage. I can query the storage and get to the datasets without any problem. I've created my visuals and published the workbook to PowerBI.com.
Next: I want to schedule the refresh of the dataset so the reports hit my Azure Data Lake files and get updated. However the OAuth2 popup and dialogue don't seem to work and after completing the login prompts I just get an endless spinning circle that never returns. As below.
Additional things: I've followed several different sets of instructions to register a new app in my Azure AD, granting it PowerBI API services. Assigning the app permissions to the storage etc. But without success. Tried native and web/API apps. Instructions here...
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-developer-authenticate-a-client-app/
I've testing using various URLs for the data lake storage as my Power BI workbook source. Including ADL://... webhdfs://... and https://... All result in the same situation.
I can confirm my Power BI logins are my Microsoft "Work" accounts. As is my Azure Data Lake storage all connected up correctly with Office 365 and Azure AD.
Questions: What am I missing? I wish there was even an error message to work from. But it gives me nothing. If this were a .Net app giving it the client ID etc would make sense. But Power BI.com just asks for my login details.
Does the Power BI preview connector for Azure Data Lake even work once published to PowerBI.com? I can't find any example out there of anybody else doing this.
Many thanks for your time and assistance friends.
I successfully managed to connect a java application to Power BI REST API and managed to create a dataset and added some data.
I can view this data from Power BI web interface, make reports, graph etc.
Is it possible to connect Power BI Desktop to this datasets and create custom reports from there?
I'm asking this because the desktop application seems to be more complete. You can edit column names, merge tables, etc. all things that are not available in the web application.
Thanks all for the help.
The Power BI Desktop does not support connecting to real-time data sets in the Power BI service at this time.
Could you submit this as a request to https://ideas.powerbi.com?
It is possible to use REST API Dataset in Power Bi Desktop since April 2017 and it worked for me in the latest version of Power BI Desktop.
But even though you can create reports based on datasets from Power BI Service, you still cannot edit column names, merge tables, etc.
The features is called Power BI service Live connection.
To establish a connection to the published report, and create your own report based on the published dataset, select Get Data from the Home ribbon in Power BI Desktop, and select Power BI service. You can also select it from Get Data > Online Services > Power BI service.
After the report is finished, you can publish your report by selecting Publish from the Home ribbon in Power BI Desktop.
More details on Power BI documentation page.