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Simple Wallboard Displays, not so simple.
I'm looking to solve what I initially thought would be a simple internal problem. I didn't think I'd be the first to want to do this, so I'm posting with the hopes that someone has already worked this out.
We have numerous wallboards (40+ inch TVs) all over our company. Exec offices, warehouse, marketing, production, etc. Each dept wants different powerbi 'screens' to rotate thru their respective displays.
Examples: Warehouse wants to know the count of orders left for today vs how many they did yesterday. Marketing wants to know how many tweets in the last hour. And so on....
I'm looking to embed all this in an intranet site. Which sounds simple until I started digging. I know there are 3 ways to embed. The publish to web obviously won't work as we don't want company metrics availible to the public. This leaves Rest API and PBI Embedded. These both leave me with issues:
1) For costs, I'd like to use a single PBI account as a service account to access all the info. As it will need access to all Dept reports, dashboards, etc. This is an issue depending on #3's answer.
2) PBI Embeded pricing model. Some 'screens' don't need to update more than 8 times a day. Others I need to throw live data and update every 5 minutes. I'd rather not have a huge increase in costs to simply show metrics on our walls.
3) Do I have my Dev guys just create a simple web app that calls the embedded data? Can that be coded to call specific defaults reports/dashboards, or does the user simply default to one and user interaction is required to change?
None of these displays will be interactive. Hell I've even considered maybe scripting screengrabs at this point. I feel like there should be a simpler way to display non interactive data to wallboards. I've got other non powerbi solutions, but our company really wants to stay with the uniformity of it.
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.
7 Replies
- Greg_DecklerCommunity Champion
Are you using SharePoint Online/Office 365? If so, you could use a special embed code for that.
- AnonymousNot applicable
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.
- Greg_DecklerCommunity Champion
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.
- ian_brownRegular Visitor
We're looking for something similar - a wallboard that rotates between a set of reports, some PowerBI, some from Jira, some from other sources.
We want this to to work in a non-interactive way, with the boards refreshing automatically at appropriate intervals.