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Power BI Desktop missing features
Hi Anonymous
For you 2 first questions, it's because PowerBI Desktop is only there to create report, not dashboards.
Creating reports on Desktop is more easy and it's more powerful with a lot more options.
For you last 2 questions, I will someone else answer them because I've never used PBI for that yet
Do you think Power BI Desktop will ever have such capabilities/features? If our company already pays for an on premise Power BI Report server, then I would expect being able to use this functionality. Making this only available in the Cloud, for a company requires additional money as you need to pay for users/licenses, plus you still encounter the security concerns of moving your reports/dashboards to the cloud, something that many companies are not prepared to do yet. Thanks for your response and help.
Hi Anonymous
For you 2 first questions, it's because PowerBI Desktop is only there to create report, not dashboards.
Creating reports on Desktop is more easy and it's more powerful with a lot more options.
For you last 2 questions, I will someone else answer them because I've never used PBI for that yet
Do you think Power BI Desktop will ever have such capabilities/features? If our company already pays for an on premise Power BI Report server, then I would expect being able to use this functionality. Making this only available in the Cloud, for a company requires additional money as you need to pay for users/licenses, plus you still encounter the security concerns of moving your reports/dashboards to the cloud, something that many companies are not prepared to do yet. Thanks for your response and help.
I fully understand what you are saying, because my company is going to use the cloud for my reports.
But as the gateway system is very strong and we are not displaying private datas (such a phone number / e mail) it will be ok.
Maybe in the future we will have such options, you can still try to post your idea here.
Quentin
Is it possible to upload a report created in Desktop to Power BI service?
Yes it is possible, and apparently it is 100% safe (according to microsoft)
You have to use the "Publish" button on the desktop version (and the report will appear on PowerBI serice)
Quentin