I am asked to work on a Dashboard project using Power BI. This will be implemented in Office 365 site. I was unable to find a properly explaining tutorial related to Power BI in office 356. I am having following confusions in Power BI for Office 365.
What is the different between Power BI in Office 365 and MS Office Excel.?
What is the connection betweer Power BI in Office 365 and MS Office Excel.?
Can I create a Power BI report in Office 365 without my locally installed Office Excel?
Is Q & A feature already included in Power BI or is it something else?
Can a Power BI view included in a website component?
What is the different between Excel Web services and Power BI?
Would like know resources for examples of how to ?
Is the following idea correct?
Power BI has the same visualization power as Office Excel Application. We create Visualizations using Power BI in locally using Office Excel and then we upload it to Office 365 and we can Interact with the visualizations as the same in the web?
Is it that everything has to be done in the local Office Excel file noting has to be done in Office 365?
Even though there are data sources configuration for Power BI in Office 365. That is to create Odata?
Thanks in Advance :)
This help document should cover most of these questions:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/office365-sharepoint-online-enterprise-help/power-bi-getting-started-guide-HA104103589.aspx
In short, Power BI for Excel contains the tools to build and create insights:
Power Query to discover and mash up data
Power Pivot to create a analytical model
Power View to visualize
Power Bi for office 365 is for collaboration and consumption ofe the workbooks created in Excel.
Your assumptions are correct, only change is that for the data sources you can use that to refresh your on premise data.
I am also new to this technology and really cant answer all of your question but some I can
Q & A feature is already included in the power bi.
yes you have to prepare your dashboards in locally installed excel and publish them to the power bi site.
You can achieve this by using both MS Office Excel and o365 Office Pro, this would provide you some new addins for power bi like synonyms.
Yes a power bi view can be included in a website component as well, since it is Sharepoint o365 and a HTML or page can be easily embedded to it and a link component can be include into it to point which refers the power bi site.
Now you can also use New Power BI Preview Designer for creating your dashboards.
Regards,
Piyush
Power BI for Office 365 is retired
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-admin-o365portal-retired
Power BI desktop can be downloaded for free and can create data models from heterogeneous data-sources including Excel spread sheets. Power BI is using Excel features like Power Query, Power Pivot etc.
Power BI dataset was formerly known as Power Pivot. Similarly Query Editor in Power BI was formerly known as Power Query.
There is a big difference in the delivery of reports and dashboards as well. Power BI is using Power BI service for this (need a sign-in) The deployments can be on cloud or on-premise, depends on the organisation preferences. There are features to create additional insights, Q & A features as well as security to view an share the report.
See the basic concepts
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-basic-concepts
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Hello,
I got a question about the way we create ROLES in Power BI desktop. The manual ROLES creation process is really hack-tic and time consuming. I want to ask if there is any way to create/load Power BI ROLES with their DAX filter expressions from some EXCEL file ?
for reference i am attaching following img
The only way to create the roles is via the interface at this time. There is no functionality via the API, or by reading the contents/updating inside of the PBIX file (which contains xml, json and other formats).
There is a vote for this functionality on the Power BI Ideas site, and a Power BI Designer API here.
Is it possible to use Power BI Report Builder to connect to a SharePoint list?
It seems that it was possible to do that with the old SSRS Report Builder - link.
I would like to Build a SSRS-like report with Power BI using different SharePoint lists as Data Sources. I tried to use the Power BI Desktop app to build a report but I couldn't matrix/tables/sections repetitions.
In the latest update(July 2019) of Power BI Report Builder, you can use NON-PREMIUM datasets from Power BI Service as a data-source for Report Builder.
So you can simply create a Dashboard in Power BI desktop from any SharePoint list and publish it in your work-space. To create a dataset from a SharePoint list, go to Get Data > Online Services > SharePoint online list and add fill in the details. Then Publish your dashboard in your workspace.
Once that is done, you can use that dataset in your report builder.
Check the image below:
Note: You can also Schedule a Refresh on your dataset so that your data is up-to-date.
Get data->More, you could find SharePoint Online List option.
According to this: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/unleashing-insights-from-data-in-documentdb-with-power-bi/ DocumentDB connector is available for both Power Bi online and Power Bi Desktop.
But when I go to Get Data -> Databases in Power Bi online, I do not see any way to connect to Document DB. I can see the connector only in Power Bi Desktop.
Is Document DB supported as data source in Power Bi online? if no, is there any workaround to make it work? I have a requirement to feed schema-less data (located in Azure) to Power Bi online, I'm searching for any way to do it, whether this is Document DB or some other NoSQL database
please allow me to clarify that connectivity to a DocumentDB account via PowerBI.com is actually there. Currently, the "Get Data" in PowerBI.com only offers data sources with DirectQuery capability. Please see this article on DirectQuery. We are working to support DirectQuery in future. For now, there are two ways to push DocumentDB data to PowerBI.com. The first method is what Denny has suggested: build the report via PowerBI Desktop and publish the report to PowerBI.com. The second method is to leverage PowerBI API to connect and push data from a DocumentDB account to PowerBI.com.
First of all, I'd like to apologize for my initial answer as I completely missed your key issue about utilizing Power BI Online. Allow me to try to make amends by attempting a more complete and proper answer.
In the case of Power BI Online, because the Power BI-to-DocumentDB connector is currently in beta, it is not available as a data source within Power BI Online under the Get Data section as you noted. Saying this, you can create a connection to DocumentDB using the Power BI desktop, publish it to Power BI Online, and then refresh it within Power BI Online. Following the "Power BI tutorial for DocumentDB: Visualize data using the Power BI connector" tutorial, here is a screenshot of running the data refresh on PowerBI.com using the credentials to your DocumentDB database.
Note, there are is already a request on the Power BI Ideas forum to have DocumentDB available directly within Power BI Online - you can read more and vote for it (if appropriate) at: https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/7160908-documentdb.
Some additional references that may be helpful:
Data Refresh in Power BI: Here is some additional information about how Data Refresh works in Power BI.
Power BI Content Packs: For more information on connectors between Power BI and other data sources, please reference Content Packs.
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.
Is there a public API for Power BI for Office 365?
I have searched for a Power BI API, however, the only results are related to the new Power BI experience which is still in preview.
I found this question on the technet forums, but, the answer only links to the API for the new Power BI.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/b15de752-353f-48f2-a890-9cee2f3e7ebc/public-api-for-power-bi-for-office-365?forum=powerbiforoffice365
No, there is no Public API for Power BI for O365. The next version of Power BI (i.e. the Power BI Preview) is extensible with APIs. You can find more about them at http://dev.powerbi.com
Let me check on that. I'm not aware of one right off the top of my head.
-Lukasz
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