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3 years ago

Teams PowerPoint (Live) <> Power BI Embed Live Data interaction issues

I was trying to create a Power Point to walk through some of the Power BI content (Reports, Dashboards) I've created, as well as more in depth context around why we made the content and deeper analyses we did as a result of things we saw. My meeting is in Teams, the presentation is in Power Point, and ideally we will present it in Teams "PowerPoint Live". We have a few options for how to present Power BI content in this setting but none of them are ideal. Here was what we considered and some pain points for each of them. Perhaps some of these can get worked out in the future, or there are existing tips I am unaware of?

 

Options and pain points:

1. Present the PowerPoint Live content and bounce back and forth between presenting the slides and live, interactive PBI Service dashboards and reports (possibly in a workspace app). This is not ideal as we need to constantly stop sharing the slides and share a different Microsoft Edge Window back and forth. Ultimately we went this route and had two presenters, with one driving the PowerPoint and the other taking over to present the browser PBI content but it wasn't ideal.

2. Paste static images of PBI content in the PowerPoint and don't do anything interactive. This didn't show the full functionality of the PBI content so while it would be a fluid presentation, it didn't meet our needs.

3. Paste (embed) live, interactive Power BI content in the presentation and just present the PowerPoint. This worked decently well if presenting a screen or a Window (except that ctrl clicking on multi-select slicers just brought up the PowerPoint laser pointer), but we wanted to use Teams PowerPoint Live. PowerPoint Live did not allow interactivity with the embed Power BI content and this is the largest bug / feature improvement we saw during the process. 

 

The embed content was also limited to a single page of a report, could not show dashboards, and could not show a workspace app. I imagine those would all be more complicated to do and at least for the report, we could just put each page on separate slides if needed, but we did want to explore those options and they were unavailable. 

 

Anyways, just wanted to provide this user feedback on attempting to present live Power BI content in a Teams PowerPoint live setting.

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