topic Re: Mobile Reports for Power BI Report Server in Report Server

Mobile Reports for Power BI Report Server

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:55:41 GMT

We've successfully setup a Dev Power BI Report Server in which I was able to publish a dashboard using Power BI Desktop for Report Server with a SSAS tabular datasource.

I am now trying to figure out how to use my Android Power BI mobile app to connect to this dashboard via the on-prem Power BI Report Server. Specifically using THIS "how to" MS page.

I try to connect using my phone but it can never find the PBIRS. I assume you have to be connected to the same network/intranet as your on prem server but is there anything else? As a test I tried connecting using the SQL Server Mobile Report Publisher which worked when I removed the "use secured connection" option.

Any tips or tricks regarding accessing a pushlished Power BI report on prem via the Power BI andoid app?

Re: Mobile Reports for Power BI Report Server

v-qiuyu-msft — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 05:56:41 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

You can install the Power BI mobile app in android phone, then connect to Power BI report server follow below links:

Get started with the Power BI for Android mobile app

View on-premises reports and KPIs in the Power BI mobile apps

Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu

Re: Mobile Reports for Power BI Report Server

xpherion — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 19:00:37 GMT

Don't you have to register your Power BI report server with Power BI cloud service (RS Configuration) so that Power BI RS can show up in Power BI Mobile app?

Re: Mobile Reports for Power BI Report Server

mgmeyer — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 20:49:14 GMT

No you don't have to, you can just select the 'Connect to server' option in settings and put in your Report Server URL.

Re: Mobile Reports for Power BI Report Server

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 17:22:58 GMT

Just to update this post. There was some internal network settings my company had in place that prevented me from connected. They won't tell me what it was for secuity purposes but I was finally able to connect.

Thank you all for your responses.