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Power Bi Report or Dashboard?
Hi,
I have several questions:
Is a power bi report same as dashboard?
After publishing, it show as report not as dashboard, why?
can I publish a report as dashboard, how?
Is there a difference between a published report and dashboard?
Do published reports and dashboard are shared in the same way?
Does everyone in my organization needs power bi pro license to view a published report, will this also apply if it is publish as a dashboard? I am trying to share a published report with user that have free license but doesn't work. Whereas another with not power bi installed can view the report.
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In the beginning there is a data source.
You load these data sources into semantic models (formerly known as datasets)
You build a report based on that semantic model, with report pages and visuals on these pages. Your users can interact with these visuals (filter and highlight)
Once you publish a report to a workspace you can view the report in a browser.
From there you can pin individual report visuals or entire report pages to dashboards as tiles. Dashboards are non-interactive (mostly - hovering will work). Clicking on a dashboard tile will take you back to the underlying report.
If your workspace is in a Premium or F64+ capacity you can publish your reports and dashboards into an app. Your users can consume app content without having to have a Pro license.
If you share the "wrong" link (ie the workspace link) then the users will get the license notification.
Workspace access should be restricted to developers and testers. All regular users should use the app to access content.
Hi Ibendlin,
It did not grasp this parts: can you maybe explain an example.
1- "If you share the "wrong" link (ie the workspace link) then the users will get the license notification."
2- "Workspace access should be restricted to developers and testers. All regular users should use the app to access content."
When you say app, you mean power bi pro installed in their computer?
Everyone in the organization have they own workspace, but this doesn't mean that the can view report or dashboards unless they have the pro version or higher ( Premium or F64+)
Thank youSounds like you are on PPU. In that case all users need a Pro license.
In Power BI there is a difference between a report and a dashboard. The report is what you published and a Power BI dashboard is a single page collection of visuals from reports. I generally recommend people to ignore Power BI dashboards and focus their distribution of content to end users through Power BI apps.
For your consumers to view your reports they will either need a pro license or you need a premium capacity. If your organization has a large enough M365 tenant everyone may automatically have a pro license.
