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Simple Wallboard Displays, not so simple.
When in Reports area and on a report in the Service, go to File and then choose Embed in SharePoint Online. Then you can use that embed code in SharePoint Online, there is a special web part for it.
We have the abillity to use Sharepoint, but we are not. We are on O365. My coworker has been pushing for it for another project. If there is a link on how using embed codes with PBI to do something like this, even if its not exact I would love the example. We would absolutely be open to using Sharepoint to solve this.
When in Reports area and on a report in the Service, go to File and then choose Embed in SharePoint Online. Then you can use that embed code in SharePoint Online, there is a special web part for it.
Thank you!
I'll give this a go and see how it works.
Hi Chris,
Have you been able to setup this solution?
As it would be nice to share as we have a similar requirement where we need to show on wallboard displays across the whole company:
- Specific static dashboard
- Auto refresh
- Non interactive (just to show metrics)
As Greg's solution is sort of ok but not responding to all your requirements.
Embedding in SharePoint is fine, but it will always show the lateral SharePoit menu, and the web part is containerized in a certain size not fitting all the screen. Also this will work for reports but not for Power BI dashboard.
I would be interested to know if you've find a solution.
Thanks
Kind regards
Wow I'm sorry I didn't reply to this sooner. We in fact did and didn't resolve the issue. We had worked on custom web app and a firefox plugin to display the reports we needed. And it worked well for about a year. Then something changed is Raspian, Chromium, and PBI where the login for the PBI service account would no longer be saved beyond 30 days. So screens would show the login instead of the actual report. I tried every trick I knew, and it wasn't working. So.... we actually started testing screen capture.
Yeah I know, totally weird. But when we sat down it made more sense. We need to display google anaylitics boards, PBI, 3rd party dashboards, etc. It was getting out of hand. So having ONE single system with saved login taking screengrabs and updating jpg files was MUCH easier to maintain. (We are using PiSignage, which is not free but we feel is worth it. We could have stuck with my homegrown Raspberry Pi solution, but it was getting out of hand to maintain.)
Yet as I type this, the screengrab is now grabbing the login screen for PBI again. So we still have not solved that problem. But at least I just need to go to one system for a temp fix.
