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Aleksi
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9 years ago
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Publish to web and licensing

Hi there,   Is there any licensing limitations if I want to publish a PowerBI report to public internet in theory for anyone in the world to see? Report would be updated once a month.   Also in P...
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  • v-qiuyu-msft's avatar
    v-qiuyu-msft
    9 years ago

    Hi Aleksi,

     

    Both Power BI free and pro users can use "Publish to web" feature, any consumer of the report (the readers, viewers) do not need to be Power BI users.

     

    In my opinion, DirectQuery mode connect to data source is not real-time data source. Real-time data source should be like stream dataset, as we can't create a report use this kind of dataset, it's not supported to use "Publish to web".

     

    Besides, regarding data refresh about publish to web report, it needs about 1 hour to reflect. See: Data refresh.

     

    Best Regards,
    Qiuyun Yu

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v-qiuyu-msft
Community Support
9 years ago

Hi Aleksi,

 

Both Power BI free and pro users can use "Publish to web" feature, any consumer of the report (the readers, viewers) do not need to be Power BI users.

 

In my opinion, DirectQuery mode connect to data source is not real-time data source. Real-time data source should be like stream dataset, as we can't create a report use this kind of dataset, it's not supported to use "Publish to web".

 

Besides, regarding data refresh about publish to web report, it needs about 1 hour to reflect. See: Data refresh.

 

Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu

  • Aleksi's avatar
    Aleksi
    New Member
    9 years ago

    Thank you, this is exactly what I thought. I've been testing this "Publish to Web" feature with Direct Query to our local database and it seems to work really well. 

    • Nk's avatar
      Nk
      New Member
      9 years ago

      I am trying with Power BI Desktop ( free version) , and do not see "publish to web" feature ( I am only using Excell data at the moment). How do I enable this feauture ?