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Power BI Auto Login
AUaero Just checking around the web it appears that you could script something to auto log in, but I'm not going to recommend anything as I've never done it and it deals with areas I'm unfamiliar with. If you can get a process to kick off and log in to Power BI, you can set a particular dashboard as your favorite and that will always show up after log in.. but I'm not aware of being able to navigate to a particular report.
If you have a report page, you could pin the report page to a dashboard and make that your favorite, which might get you close to what you want... no garauntee's though.
Hey everyone,
Wanted to chime in here, I just came across this. This is a huge problem within Power BI that has lasted for several years. I actually wrote my own Chrome extension previously to help people with this, but it was ultimately too limited and unreliable - all of them are.
I decided to write a custom digital signage/slideshow desktop app for Power BI called Displagent. It allows you to create custom slideshows from Power BI reports and Power BI dashboards and mix & match them. It uses a Power BI service account and an Azure App Registration to authenticate you to Microsoft, and it encrypts those credentials locally on your machine once you enter them (very safe from a security standpoint). There's no manual logins required, and no timeouts ever occur because it refreshes everything automatically. All you need is a Power BI Pro account, and a dedicated capacity is NOT required.
More relevant to this particular ticket, it has autolaunch built in. So on machine startup/reboot, Displagent will auto-open itself and auto-start to a specific slideshow that you can choose: a Report Slideshow, a Dashboard Slideshow, or a Compound Slideshow.
I have a lot of people in the manufacturing sector that sign up for the app and want to display it on TVs on shop floors or offices. Check it out if interested!