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Opening an Embedded Power BI Report in Full Screen
Hi all,
I have a Power BI Pro license and I have published my Power BI reports in relevant workspaces on the Power BI Service. However, my reports are consumed via an embed on webpages.
My issue is that the end-user cannot go full-screen with the reports. If you look at reports "published to Web", there is a little 2-sided arrow icon on the bottom right of the Power BI Report. By clicking on this icon, the Power BI Report goes full screen. (here is an example: https://excellab.at/power-bi-report-samples/covid19-mortality-vaccinations/ )
However that icon seems to be missing on my embedded reports. Anyone knows about a workaround to this problem?
I have been looking for a solution to my problem all over the web but I still can't figure out how to do it.
Any help would be appreciated.
10 Replies
- lbendlin
Super User
There's a difference between embedded and embedded. The former is putting your regular Power BI report into an iframe on the target site, with no security linkage whatsover. The latter is true embedding, either with app owns data or user owns data, where the authentication flows from the host to the embedded content.
Only the latter supports adding the full screen icon. The former doesn't know how to "make a random iframe in my page full screen"
- lbendlin
Did you implement user owns data or app owns data?
I would also like to add that I am not using Power BI Embedded licensing model. I simply have a Power BI Pro license and using the "emded" code from the Power BI Service to embed my Power BI Report on a web page. The user (who also has a Power BI Pro license and with whom the Report has been shared on the Power BI Service) then has access to that Report on the web page. Before accessing that Report, he will need to provide his Microsoft Power BI login details.
- lbendlin
No, you should implement a true "user owns data" or "app own data" embedding, and then implement the code that allows the hosting page to communicate with the iframe to negotiate the fullscreen request.
I guess this is what I'm already doing! I get my embed code from the Power BI Service from "File > Embed Report > Website or Portal". I then get a Secure Embed Window with the Embed Code. I copy this embed code and put it in the HTML codes of my web page.
When a user clicks on that link, the Power BI report opens (but it first asks the user to authenticate its login details). Or am I missing something in the process here?
- lbendlin
