Feature Suggestion: Add Default Report Templates to Power BI Home for Faster Designing

[shabareesh1383]

Hi Power BI Team and Community,

As someone actively working with Power BI and preparing for PL-300, I’ve noticed how much time goes into setting up consistent layouts and visuals—especially for beginners.

Just like PowerPoint and Word offer default themes and templates on their home screens, I believe Power BI would benefit from pre-built report templates directly accessible from the Home view.

These templates could include:

• Common dashboard layouts (e.g., Sales Overview, IT Monitoring, Executive Summary)
• Pre-configured visuals and slicers
• Sample DAX measures and formatting styles
  
  
  

This would help learners get started faster and reduce design time for professionals. Power BI already supports .PBIT files, but surfacing curated templates in the Home screen would make them more discoverable and impactful.

Would love to hear thoughts from the community and developers—especially if this is already in the roadmap!

[Ritaf1983 · Accepted solution]

Hi @shabareesh1383 

Thanks for sharing this suggestion.
First, you can officially submit it as an idea in Microsoft’s feedback portal :

https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Ideas/idb-p/fbc_ideas

Second, while I don’t have decision-making power here (that’s up to Microsoft’s product managers), my expertise is in effective data visualization and UX. From my experience, many dashboards that don’t work well in practice come directly from using pre-made templates copied from the wrong places.

Unlike Word (where templates for forms are helpful) or PowerPoint (where design themes are reusable), BI dashboards are much more complex. It’s not just about layout or fonts. For example:

You need the right information hierarchy.

The type and number of slicers determine their placement.

Chart types must match the message, the data, and the proportions.

These are just a few points—there are many other nuances that strongly affect usability and decision-making.

When dashboards are designed well, they support better processes and decisions. When they aren’t, users often export to Excel or, worse, make wrong business decisions because the insights were misunderstood or missed.

That’s why I believe templates in BI usually do more harm than good. In practice, developers need to learn data visualization principles, and where possible, organizations should involve an expert to guide design. Templates rarely solve these challenges—in most cases, they create them.

As an example, even the dashboard shown in the post is not an effective one and already shows several design issues.

If this post helps, then please consider Accepting it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly

[Royel · Accepted solution]

Hi @shabareesh1383 microsoft always welcome new ideas. Its better to submit your idea here: 

https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Ideas/idb-p/fbc_ideas
Thanks 

[Royel · Accepted solution]

Hi @shabareesh1383 microsoft always welcome new ideas. Its better to submit your idea here: 

https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Ideas/idb-p/fbc_ideas
Thanks 

[shabareesh1383 · Accepted solution]

Hi @Royel 
Thanks for helping me

[Ritaf1983 · Accepted solution]

Hi @shabareesh1383 

Thanks for sharing this suggestion.
First, you can officially submit it as an idea in Microsoft’s feedback portal :

https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Ideas/idb-p/fbc_ideas

Second, while I don’t have decision-making power here (that’s up to Microsoft’s product managers), my expertise is in effective data visualization and UX. From my experience, many dashboards that don’t work well in practice come directly from using pre-made templates copied from the wrong places.

Unlike Word (where templates for forms are helpful) or PowerPoint (where design themes are reusable), BI dashboards are much more complex. It’s not just about layout or fonts. For example:

You need the right information hierarchy.

The type and number of slicers determine their placement.

Chart types must match the message, the data, and the proportions.

These are just a few points—there are many other nuances that strongly affect usability and decision-making.

When dashboards are designed well, they support better processes and decisions. When they aren’t, users often export to Excel or, worse, make wrong business decisions because the insights were misunderstood or missed.

That’s why I believe templates in BI usually do more harm than good. In practice, developers need to learn data visualization principles, and where possible, organizations should involve an expert to guide design. Templates rarely solve these challenges—in most cases, they create them.

As an example, even the dashboard shown in the post is not an effective one and already shows several design issues.

If this post helps, then please consider Accepting it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly