Difference betweeen Power BI desktop and Power BI service for development?

[vanessafvg]

does anyone know what functionality is not available in the power  bi service if you develop dashboards there vs doing it in the desktop?

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[v-juanli-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @vanessafvg

Bascially, you need to know "dashboard" in Service means a single page while in Desktop, there is no "dashboard" but reports which can have many single pages. Of course, there are reports in Service.

Here is a reference about basic concepts in Service.

When you create a report or a dashboard directly from Service, you can't clean and model your data to change the data structure to fit your requirements to create proper visuals.

Like Greg_Deckler's answer, you can't use Power Query and DAX langulage, can't manage tables' relationship,ect.

Best Regards

Maggie

[Greg_Deckler]

You have no access to do anything with the data model in the Service. You cannot create measures, custom columns, relationships, etc.

[vanessafvg]

@Greg_Deckler @v-juanli-msft thank you 🙂