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ivan77
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10 years ago
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I dont understand the workflow

Hi,   In Power BI desktop, I created some visuals in the report tab (since I cannot create dashboards directly from there).  I clicked publish and signed into my office 365 account.  It published t...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    ivan77 I'm trying to follow what the issue is...

    The screen you were faced with is just the default screen for any new user who has nothing in their workspace.

    Once a user has content in the workspace, this default screen will be their workspace.

     

    Sharing a dashboard as outlined here will provide your end users the ability to see your dashboard and reports (not datasets)

    Content packs are not necessary, but are another option to share your reports/dashboards. 

     

    Each user has there own workspace, so "yes" they will need a subscription. (There are free versions, but if you use anything that requires a Pro license the end user needs to have that same Pro license to interact/see your reports and dashboards.)

     

    What does "And query if I choose" mean?

     

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ivan77
Regular Visitor
10 years ago

Hi Anonymous, 

 

I just came across the content pack section.  I added a content pack with my dashboard and shared it with the staffuser.  I can now see the dashboard in the staffuser.

 

Questions:

 

1) Does every user in my organization need a power bi subscription simply to view the dashboards I create?  

 

2) is there a way to have our office 365 users just see the dashboards.  All I really want is for the report consumers to just see the dashboard (and query if if I choose) so as not to confuse them with the datasets, ability to create dashboards.  

 

Ivan

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greggyb
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10 years ago

Everyone needs a license, but depending on your datasets, they may not need a Pro license, they might be able to get by with free license.

Power BI licensing

 

The workflow is

Desktop:

Power Query: retrieve information, apply transformations and business logic to support analysis

Power Pivot / data model: Analytical modelling and measure defintions

Power View: build interactive reports

 

Service (app.powerbi.com):

Power View: build or consume interactive reports based on published datasets

Dashboards: view tiles from one or many reports

 

There is a hierarchy in elements that exist in the service.

Dashboard > Report > Dataset

 

Access to a dataset allows an individual to create arbitrary reports on that dataset.

 

Access to a report implies access to the underlying dataset.

 

Access to a dashboard implies access to the underlying report(s) and dataset(s).