Banner messages to alert users in PowerBI

[Compelica]

Hi everyone,

Is there some form of popup/banner that can be created in the PowerBI service or upon opening reports? The use case is that we when have downtime/issues with our source servers we want to issue a notification upon opening the report or accessing the PowerBI portal (app.powerbi.com) so that the users are immediately aware. 

I am aware on being able to create popups on reports but that is on a per-dashboard basis, which we want to avoid. We would prefer not to perform refreshes/republishing in order to change these popups.

I have used visuals which support HTML and iframes to display a page live from an intranet/Sharepoint without refreshing the dataset, but getting around security measures is difficult. For example - even reading an embedded HTML placed in Sharepoint to be used on an iframe doesn't work.

Happy to hear any thoughts and ideas.

[Anonymous]

Hi @Compelica,

As we haven’t heard back from you, we wanted to kindly follow up to check if the solution provided for the issue worked? or Let us know if you need any further assistance?
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[Anonymous]

Hi @Compelica,

May I ask if you have gotten this issue resolved?

If it is solved, please mark the helpful reply or share your solution and accept it as solution, it will be helpful for other members of the community who have similar problems as yours to solve it faster.

Regards,
Vinay Pabbu

[Anonymous]

Hi @Compelica,

As we haven’t heard back from you, we wanted to kindly follow up to check if the solution provided for the issue worked? or Let us know if you need any further assistance?
If our response addressed, please mark it as Accept as solution and click Yes if you found it helpful.

Regards,
Vinay Pabbu

[Compelica]

Thanks @Akash_Varuna . Don't have admin rights for (1) currently but would try around with that option.

(2) is a viable solution, but not too easy to perform as for some reason - when we use our Office 365 ID to sign into PowerBI and an object in Sharepoint is embedded in, it ends up blank; likely has to do something with sign-in. For intranet it doesn't work either because the PowerBI service technically can't 'reach' the intranet, and hosting pages public is definitely something ITSec will not allow.

Could you describe more on (3)? Thank you

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @Compelica,

Thanks @Akash_Varuna for Addressing the issue.

You can find a detailed explanation of adding dynamic messages via a parameter table for report-level alerts in the following blog post:

https://www.brunner.bi/post/dynamic-pop-up-or-warning-images-in-power-bi 

https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2023/02/12/dynamic-what-if-with-user-entered-data-in-power-bi/ 

If this post helps, then please consider Accepting as solution to help the other members find it more quickly, don't forget to give a "Kudos" – I’d truly appreciate it!

Regards,
Vinay Pabbu

[Akash_Varuna]

Hi @Compelica Power BI does not natively support popups you could try this work arounds maybe

• Use Admin Portal > Service Announcements to notify all Power BI users about downtime.
• Embed live SharePoint/intranet pages using IFRAME visuals in reports.
• Add dynamic messages via a parameter table for report-level alerts.
  If this post helped please do give a kudos and accept this as a solution
  Thanks In Advance