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Governance: Business Users, Descriptions etc
Hey all,
Curious how everyone here maintains ownership, governance etc of their Power BI's on a workspace. We have a relatively complicated arrangement of different companies, people etc who all use our reports. Each report is supposed to have: a BU Owner, BU Lead, a Description, Privacy things, access notes etc. I don't like the idea of exporting to an excel and keeping that up to date (it's cumbersome anyway), and in a perfect world I have a report that shows all my reports, their usage, the department or user responsible for them, health metrics etc based on notebook refresh. Has anyone done this before?
Cheers,
Michelle
Hi mmsherer,
As GilbertQ mentioned, this is not a native capability.
What I'm doing to get similar info about my reports, is I have a formalized IT process to move a report to production. We manage that through our ITSM software (ServiceNow for my org).
When a request is submitted, the BU owner and other required info is entered into the ticket by the requestor, goes through some approval steps, and then once approved, it is deployed to a prod workspace.
From there I have a notebook that pulls data from ServiceNow into a Fabric Lakehouse, and I am pulling all that info, and then I have created a Power BI report sitting on that data to act as a report catalog.So it is possible, but it's entirely custom, not native functionality.
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Hi mmsherer,
As GilbertQ mentioned, this is not a native capability.
What I'm doing to get similar info about my reports, is I have a formalized IT process to move a report to production. We manage that through our ITSM software (ServiceNow for my org).
When a request is submitted, the BU owner and other required info is entered into the ticket by the requestor, goes through some approval steps, and then once approved, it is deployed to a prod workspace.
From there I have a notebook that pulls data from ServiceNow into a Fabric Lakehouse, and I am pulling all that info, and then I have created a Power BI report sitting on that data to act as a report catalog.So it is possible, but it's entirely custom, not native functionality.
Ah okay! Bummer! Thank you for the context - it's such a pain to not be able to see what reports are for who and all the metadata about them. I've gotten the smarties in our Data Engineering team to take a look, hoping that there is something with the Graph API + SharePoint perhaps that we can build. But yes, also bespoke.
Hi mmsherer
We would like to inquire whether have you got the chance to check the solutions provided by tayloramy GilbertQ in commiunity to resolve the issue. We hope the information provided helps to clear the query. Should you have any further queries, kindly feel free to contact the Microsoft Fabric community.
Thank you.Hi mmsherer
We haven’t heard from you on the last response and was just checking back to see if you have a resolution yet. And, if you have any further query do let us know.
Thank you.
