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JohnyOhYeah
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Publishing a new corporate mobile app containing a shortcut to PowerBI dashboard

Dear Colleagues,

We want to push the PowerBI dashboard to a group of company owned mobile devices as a shortcut. Mobile devices are managed via Intune (Company portal).

In order to push them we want to push not an app but a shortcut containing the hyperlink to the PowerBI dashboard.

We found a way to generate a direct link to PowerBI mobile app which will avoid redirect through Edge. 
The reason why we wanted it is because for some test users who have non-updated Edge, the redirect wasn't working properly.
Direct link was generated in the form mspbi://app/OpenReport?ReportObjectId=XXXXXXX&GroupObjectId=XXXXXXXX like advised in this Microsoft article.
However it appeared that we cannot use this link when publishing a new app within Company portal and we receive the error "Enter a valid url beginning with http:// or https://" 

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Does someone know how we can overcome this hurdle?

 

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Hey @JohnyOhYeah ,

 

Can you check if your mobile broswer is set to desktop browsing?

Tap the three-dot menu at the top right and check if "Desktop site" is enabled. If so disable it.

 

Maya

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mshenhav
Power BI Team
Power BI Team

hey @JohnyOhYeah ,

 

Is this URL template not working properly for you? can you please explain what is broken?
http://app.powerbi.com/Redirect?[QUERYPARAMETERS]

 

Can you try using standard univeresal link (copied from the address bar)? it suppose to open the report in a browser with a button to open with the app, and once a user selects this option, the device will know to use the app the next time a same URL is selected. 

Maya

Hey @JohnyOhYeah ,

 

Can you check if your mobile broswer is set to desktop browsing?

Tap the three-dot menu at the top right and check if "Desktop site" is enabled. If so disable it.

 

Maya

Dear Maya,

 

I think it helped in this case, thanks!

 

Warm regards,

Ivan

Dear Maya,

 

For some reason this default link you suggested doesn't work on Android device. I mean it doesn't suggest the option to open PowerBI mobile app, just opens the link in browser desktop mode with small icons on the dashboard

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v-stephen-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @JohnyOhYeah ,

 

Thanks for reaching out the community.

Where did you take the screenshot? I'm not too familiar with the interface of your screenshot.

mspbi://app/... link is used to jump to Power BI Mobile Apps on your mobile device.

But judging from your error message, your address bar only supports URLs that start with http:// or https://.

 

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

 

Thank you for prompt repsonse, Stephen!
This error is from Intune >  weblink Add Apps. I am attaching additional screenshot

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