Customer is looking for the Azure SQL Database connector in Power BI Service to create a cloud or gateway connection without creating any semantic model, dataflow or a report, just to create a connection to use the connections in Pipelines as creating a connection will help them create a unique ID.    Raising this on behalf of our customer. ... View more

Interpreting visuals without a clear legend to indicate logic behind specific styles can lead to confusion and decision-making errors. An idea to enhance clarity and transparency by ensuring legends and tooltips accurately display colors, patterns, and other visual components influenced by logics, would enable report consumers to easily understand the applied logic and make more effective decisions. ... View more

Currently via the ... next to a pipeline we can select recent runs and the window on the right hand side displays the start time of all recent runs, but does not detail the end time or durations of those runs. Whereas via the monitor hub if we locate a historical run and use the ... and select historical runs it shows the runs with the start end, end time and Duration. Due to a high number of pipelines locating previous runs in monitor can be slow as we cannot limit the filter to find pipeline names without first paging through 100's of jobs, so looking for historical runs is far quicker via the pipeline itself. Can we make these two different ways of access previous runs of a pipeline consist and show the start and end times as well as the durations.  This will make it easier compare historical runs time and performance. ... View more

💓 Yes please to custom access messaging - upvote the socks off this post! 💓 We stilll have a gap in the access messages feature in Power BI in 2026 - lets see if we can muster enough upvotes to change it! Semantic models can have a unique access message on them, however workbooks cannot have a unique access message on them. If you host hundreds of Power BI reports, the administration on the dreaded default "I would like access" message is no fun. Users today have their own sharepoints, documents, why cant we have the functionality on customization of that dreaded access message?     Yes you can use the app to change it in a workspace, but the issue with that is only one app per workspace is allowed. Why should users opt to add more workspaces making topologies more complex when they need not have to be that way. Org apps is introduced 2026 which allows multiple apps per workspace - but only one access message is allowed. This should be a standard in apps if were moving that way, each app should be capable of having a customized message per app. We get user complaints all the time on this subject, from the many posts even this one as solved so do others.   Two things i would like this idea to change which would give a gain to anyone who administers a workspace. 1. Workbook access message customization for those who dont want to use the app as standard in 2026. 2. Org apps to include custom message per app as standard in 2026.   What do we need to facilitate change? Upvotes, encourage all your users to upvote this proposal and add some comments, lets see in 2026 if we can fix this issue! 💪 ... View more

A user is unable to select Analyze in Excel from a report within an app in the Power BI service. The user has been granted Viewer access to the workspace, and the customer does not want to provide Build permission on the semantic model to end users. The user understands that this behavior is expected under the current permission setup and would like to know if there are any available workarounds for this limitation.   ... View more

Today, Power BI semantic models (datasets/DAX) work well when Power BI is the only BI tool. However, many organizations use Databricks as their lakehouse and need consistent, governed metrics across multiple BI tools, ML pipelines, and APIs. When the semantic layer lives only in Power BI: Logic is duplicated across datasets and tools Governance/security (RLS/CLS, masking) is fragmented Schema changes in Databricks break reports ML/AI pipelines cannot reuse business logic from Power BI models Proposal: Enable native Power BI integration with Databricks Metric View ... View more

Customer is seeking a solution to retrieve gateway roles assigned to all users across all gateway connections within their tenant. However, based on our current assessment, there is no out-of-the-box method or available API that supports retrieving this information at a tenant-wide level. Could you please confirm if there are any alternative approaches or solutions to achieve this requirement? Raising this on behalf of our customer. ... View more

Category color in the new Card visual resets when repointing to a different data source. Even when using the same field, changing the data source causes the category/header color to revert to default. This breaks formatting consistency and requires manual rework during dataset switching (e.g., Dev → Prod). Formatting should persist when the same field is used. ... View more

For both activities and pipelines, users should be able to configure email notifications when the execution time exceeds a specified threshold. This would help users detect workflows that are taking unexpectedly long before they time out, allowing them to investigate and address potential issues proactively. ... View more

The primary axis are outdated and require significant improvement when compared to Excel. This makes it difficult for report creators and often leads to problems when trying to manage and style them effectively. By offering more format settings, greater control over displayed data can be provided, especially if axis ticks, new gridlines, and separators are also included. ... View more

Problem When customers open Fabric ontology for the first time, they face a blank canvas. They have to design entity types, properties, relationships, and naming conventions from scratch — often without a clear reference for what "good" looks like in their domain. This design phase alone can take weeks of workshops before any technical work begins. For most enterprises, the patterns are well-known — a retail ontology has Customer, Product, Order, Store, Inventory; a manufacturing ontology has Asset, WorkOrder, Site, Material. Customers are reinventing the same models, slowly and inconsistently. What would help Ship a starter library of sample / template ontologies for common industry domains: Retail Manufacturing Supply Chain Financial Services Healthcare Sustainability / ESG HR / Workforce Sales / B2B Even read-only reference templates (entity types, properties, relationships, sample queries) would be valuable. Importable starter ontologies that customers can instantiate and then bind to their own data would be even better. Microsoft already has this domain expertise through Common Data Model, Dynamics 365 industry data models, and Industry Clouds — extending those into Fabric IQ would be a natural fit. Why it matters Removes the "blank canvas" problem and shortens design time from weeks to hours Provides Microsoft-validated patterns customers can trust Accelerates Fabric IQ and data agent adoption — a templated ontology plus Copilot can produce a working agent in a day Impact Templates lower the barrier to entry for ontology, especially for customers who know their data but aren't sure how to model it semantically. Combined with stronger creation paths (automation from lakehouse), this would make Fabric IQ approachable for any enterprise, not just those with existing semantic modeling expertise. ... View more

Problem: Currently, there's no way to filter the "CU% over time" visual by workspace.   This means we're unable to track interactive CU% by workspace. We have 20+ workspaces in a capacity, and we wish to filter the "CU% over time" visual by workspace.   Proposed solution: Make it possible to filter the CU% over time visual by workspace. ... View more

Currently, when a button is set to the "Data function" action type, the Format/Property pane does not display which specific function is selected. To verify the logic, users have to click through multiple sub-menus, which is inefficient for debugging and auditing complex reports. I suggest displaying the Function Name (and its Function Set) directly in the top-level Action card. This would provide immediate clarity on what a button triggers without unnecessary "click-drilling," making it much easier to maintain data integrity and peer-review reports in a professional environment. ... View more

Allow external (B2B/guest) users with Power BI Premium Per User (PPU) licences to create and receive email subscriptions for shared reports. This will improve collaboration, automate report delivery, and enhance usability for cross-organisation scenarios. ... View more

At present, the Power BI Admin Activity Events API supports retrieving audit events only for a maximum lookback period of 28 days. This limitation poses challenges for organizations that require long-term retention, historical analysis, compliance reporting, or forensic investigations based on audit data. We would like to request an enhancement to this functionality, enabling the retrieval of activity events beyond the current 28-day restriction. Having the ability to access historical events without time-based limitations would significantly improve administrative visibility, governance, and compliance capabilities for enterprise customers. ... View more

We don't currently use Fabric Copilot because of the CU risk or our Fabric capacity, and as a result have it turned off on our tenant.   Power BI report builders and consumers in my organization resort to copying and pasting code and issues to M365 Copilot for help, which requires additional time and loses context of the object you are working on, and is not agentic. We are losing productivity gains and potentially better results.    Pro code developers are starting to use GitHub Copilot in VS Code but this is not accessible for everyone.   I can see that the Fabric and Power BI Copilot features released to date and data agents would be beneficial for both types of users, however due to the cost it will remain turned off for the foreseeable future unless the costing changes or we can bring our own user licence for AI features.   Most of the Power BI builders/developers in my org have a M365 Copilot or GitHub Copilot licence, I happen to have both at the moment. It seems strange that we can't use these Microsoft licences that we already pay for to use Copilot in Fabric and Power BI. Can we please have the ability to bring our own user AI licences.   The uptake of Fabric copilot features will increase and we will require more user licences as a result. GitHub Copilot and M365 Copilot also have better governance features for organization admins to track queries and usage. ... View more

Add a new Transform CustomCode node in Eventstreams that lets users author and run sandboxed JavaScript or .NET code as a streaming transformation step—similar in UX placement to existing transformations and the SQL operator, but designed for arbitrary code logic.  ... View more

It’s challenging and time-consuming for both new and experienced report creators to organize data when trying to split cards into categories. By introducing small multiples, it could be a familiar and easy way for report creators to intuitively categorize data, especially if they had more control over layout and formatting. ... View more

Please can we extend the GraphQL functionality to surface semantic model data? This would allow us to use measures, dimensions, attributes etc in our apps. ... View more