How to create a new Workspace in azure Workspace Collection without command line tools?

[inoitunoit]

Hi,

I'm primarily a data analyst, not a programmer, so forgive me if I'm not familiar with how to do this. I'm trying to create a Power BI Workspace within the Azure Power BI Workspace Collection. I cannot find any way to achieve this without downloading a compiling a special command line tool. I don't have visual studio and don't really want to download and install it, then figure out how to compile the tool, JUST to create a workspace. I tried the pre-compiled (ie Windows Installer) CLI tool but it does not have the option to create workspaces. 

Surely there is a way I can do this from the Azure user interface?

[Anonymous]

@inoitunoit I'm not aware of any UI that will allow you to do this. There is step by step documentation on how to set this up... have you seen this?

[inoitunoit]

Yes that is the guide I have followed which is the one that has at step 3. "Compile the solution." which is the thing I cannot do. It's a shame because everything up to this point - setting up databases, ETLs etc I could do really easily, then you get to this aweful step.

[Eric_Zhang · Accepted solution]

@inoitunoit

I built the solution and it gives me an exe. Please download and go to "power-bi-embedded-integrate-report-into-web-app-master\ProvisionSample\bin\Debug" and try to execute the "ProvisionSample.exe".

[inoitunoit]

Thank you! I'm assuming I just edit the file ProvisionSample.exe.config and should be good to go?

What I have literally *just* finished doing is configuring a report manually, using postman to construct the requests, following this guide: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/power-bi-embedded-iframe/

Good to know I'll never have to do that again! Hopefully in the future this kind of thing can be done via the UI.

Thanks again.

[Eric_Zhang]

Great. I love the POSTMAN. 🙂

I don't change the config. In the prompt cmd window, it asks to input the config items.