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Anonymous
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4 years ago

Formatting Power BI Report URL

Hi,

 

When you open a report by the browser you get an URL that easily can be shared.

Example:

https://app.powerbi.com/groups/37a8f676-801c-4af2-b77f-18488a43003e/reports/e7cce7b2-44cc-442b-9908-775e31eefc3e/ReportSection4b482fec96538fdc6b7b 

 

Is there a way to format this link you can see the name instead of an ID?

 

kind regards,

Davina

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5 Replies

  • ibarrau's avatar
    ibarrau
    Super User
    4 years ago

    Hi. There is no way to change the Power Bi Service URL. The only posibility of something like that would be if you are builing a web app and embeding Power Bi there. Becaue you own your code. However, inside power bi it can't be changed.

    Regards,

  • v-yalanwu-msft's avatar
    v-yalanwu-msft
    Community Support
    4 years ago

    Hi, Anonymous ;

    There is really no way to format this, but you can change it manually by manually entering the ID name and then attaching the URL. like below:

    Formatting Power BI Report URL

     

    Best Regards,
    Community Support Team_ Yalan Wu
    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    4 years ago

    ibarrau Hi. Interesting, can you give more information how you can format them in the app or by embedded URL?

    Thanks!

    • ibarrau's avatar
      ibarrau
      Super User
      4 years ago

      Well, you need to know a minimun of structure and front end (html or javascript). You can create a front in which you embed report. You can control in that web app how the url and navigation would look like. You should use the embed report website portal in order to keep the Power Bi Security with microsoft profesional login as it is in Service. There is more data here:
      https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/collaborate-share/service-embed-secure

       

      There is another embeding option that would be the most professional one where you control every detail in javascript brought from service. That one needs purchasing capacity in Azure and developing a complete end to end web app.

       

       

      I hope that helps,

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        4 years ago

        ibarrau Thanks for sharing those information.

         

        I am wondering if this will help me out, so I will explain why we need to rework our URL's.

        Now we have 1 large dataset/report. 

        This report is managed in Power BI Desktop on a limited set, only full set will be loaded in Power BI Service after publishing changes. This report is used a lot, so we cannot make our report inactive for a few hours (refresh of dataset is now around 2 hours). 

        With a few experts we look at this situation and we do nothing wrong with that, but they understand the situation. So together we found we can upload it as an other name, refresh, after refresh rename it so this will be in use. The URL fact came after we checked with an expert.

        This method had 1 negative point: the URL behind the report changes, so users that saved the URL cannot work anymore with that link.

         

        So it would be interesting if we can set app.powerbi.com/reportname or app.powerbi.com/appname/reportname . 

         

        Can anybody help me with that?

         

        Thanks!