The issues with Org Apps

[joeparkinson]

Org apps looked very promising, but there are some crucial issues with it:

1. The fact that Power BI navigation is still visible down the left hand side really makes for a poor user experience

2. Missing audience feature - Yes I know audiences are essentially now seperate apps, but if a user sits in multiple audiences, they now have multiple apps, which is a confusing experience for the user

3. Overview page would be great if we could have more customisation options

Would be great if the apps could incorporate power apps pages into it too, but I know that may be a dream too far

[Anonymous]

Your ideas is so great KNP

Hi, @joeparkinson 

As you described, the sidebar of Power BI service apps really doesn't provide too many options for users to customize.
If you want this one feature, I think you have the following two options:
1. Use Power BI embedded, embed the report into your website, and then modify the style of the sidebar with css in the embedded code in Html. You can get the class of the sidebar from the browser console and control the sidebar using CSS.

Best Regards

Jianpeng Li

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

[KNP]

1. You can set the default to collapsed.  

2. Apps have audiences. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/collaborate-share/service-create-distribute-apps#create-a...

3. Depends on what you're trying to achieve.

[joeparkinson]

1. I mean the power bi sidebar, where you can select workspaces etc

2. Im talking orgapps not workspace apps

[KNP · Accepted solution]

Gotcha, sorry, I misread that.

Just reading the docs, I'm not sure how I feel about how permissions are assigned either. It makes the objects accessible outside of the app and also no conscious effort is required to share data from other workspaces. 

I need to do more research.

[Max_701]

It makes the objects accessible outside of the app and also no conscious effort is required to share data from other workspaces.  - this will be a major pain point in adoption & should have been handled much better or otherwise they could have gone a different route where all the itmes other than a report can be shared via an app like currently Dataflows can be viewed with viewer access but with this org app you can share a single dataflow.