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cognovo
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4 years ago
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Visual usage patterns

For the check of cost effectiveness we would like to track visual usage patterns in reports throughout our organisation.   Is there any way to gather information about all reports throughout the or...
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  • cognovo's avatar
    cognovo
    4 years ago

    Hi Ibendlin,

     

    yes we already thought about that possbility but it's too crude. We have thousands of reports here and we cannot make ourselves member of every workspace (technically not a problem but for security reasons not allowed).

     

    So please vote for my idea about extending the Power BI Rest Api with a Get Visual endpoint:

    Microsoft Idea (powerbi.com)

     

     

     

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cognovo
Frequent Visitor
4 years ago

Hi Ibendlin,

 

we have organizational custom visuals we pay for and we want to know if they are worth the money. If nonbody uses them we waste money 🙂 So statistics about usage of visuals would greatly help us.

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lbendlin
Super User
4 years ago

I mentioned in another post that there is a very crude way of doing that:

 

- make yourself member of all premium workspaces

- download all pbix files from all datasets that allow it

- open the pbix with 7Zip, and look in the Reports/Custom Visuals subfolder.

 

Very crude, very slow, and will not work for personal workspaces or any datasets that have incremental refresh or other limitations.

 

I have a powershell script for that if you are interested.

  • cognovo's avatar
    cognovo
    Frequent Visitor
    4 years ago

    Hi Ibendlin,

     

    yes we already thought about that possbility but it's too crude. We have thousands of reports here and we cannot make ourselves member of every workspace (technically not a problem but for security reasons not allowed).

     

    So please vote for my idea about extending the Power BI Rest Api with a Get Visual endpoint:

    Microsoft Idea (powerbi.com)