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ChristianM
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2 years ago
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Temporary Report Communications

Is there a way in the Power BI Service to add a temporary message / overlay to a certain report to display a message?    For context, we have a dashboard which contains a number of different visual...
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    collinq
    2 years ago

    Hey ChristianM ,

     

    There really is not a default way to do this - although this sounds like a great idea.  If you find one in the ideas or if you make one, let us know and we can vote for it.  (Home (microsoft.com))

     

    That said, here is what I do.  I make a new report with a single page with just a "text" visual that states the reason this report is not valid, with the expected time range.  I name it the exact same name (BE ABSOLUTELY SURE TO KEEP YOUR COPY OF THE FILE FIRST!!!!) and publish it and let it overwrite the existing file.  Then, when all is well, i put back the original file and overwrite the one I have and then all is well again  (be sure to hit the "update app" after each change.

     

    Note - I used to just add a new tab at the beginning with my text visual that stated that all was temporarily down BUT so many users had shortcuts and/or bookmarks and/or ignored that becuase they clicked so fast into the tab that they are used to using and then they didn't realize that it was down and that the new tab was there and that is why I do the overwrite thing.  Just be very careful to keep the good version on your machine so you don't lose everything!!

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collinq
Super User
2 years ago

Hey ChristianM ,

 

There really is not a default way to do this - although this sounds like a great idea.  If you find one in the ideas or if you make one, let us know and we can vote for it.  (Home (microsoft.com))

 

That said, here is what I do.  I make a new report with a single page with just a "text" visual that states the reason this report is not valid, with the expected time range.  I name it the exact same name (BE ABSOLUTELY SURE TO KEEP YOUR COPY OF THE FILE FIRST!!!!) and publish it and let it overwrite the existing file.  Then, when all is well, i put back the original file and overwrite the one I have and then all is well again  (be sure to hit the "update app" after each change.

 

Note - I used to just add a new tab at the beginning with my text visual that stated that all was temporarily down BUT so many users had shortcuts and/or bookmarks and/or ignored that becuase they clicked so fast into the tab that they are used to using and then they didn't realize that it was down and that the new tab was there and that is why I do the overwrite thing.  Just be very careful to keep the good version on your machine so you don't lose everything!!