Dashboard Actions

In the Power BI service, you can keep track of who is using your reports. I’ll demonstrate how simple it is to locate and create this report utilizing the power bi service, as well as how to connect, obtain this data on your own, and adapt it for your own needs.

View Usage Metrics Report of a Power BI Dashboard

This feature enables you to access a Power BI dashboard’s traffic data in report format. Let’s use analyzing sales reports as an example. 

This is a very straightforward report that does nothing more than analyze sales for a hypothetical company. If you want to find out how many users actually access this report, all you have to do is click more options and select usage metrics. If you’ve never opened usage metrics for a report before, this will generate first, but once it does, it will take you to the page shown below:

As a result, you’ll notice that this report’s design and layout are familiar because it is essentially an internal Power BI report that provides you with some useful information, such as the number of views your reports receive each day, the demographics of the viewers, and whether they access your reports via mobile or desktop. You can even view distribution channels or frequently utilized report pages.

Share Power BI Dashboard

To distribute this dashboard around the company, use this feature. 

Open the report from Dashboard and select “Share”.

When working with power bi reports, sharing them within the service would typically require at least a pro license, not just for you who is sharing the report but also for the people with that you are sharing the reports. This means that if you or your organization does not already have power bi licenses, building and publishing reports is simple, but sharing them within the organization can be a little bit challenging.

The simplest way to share a report with your team is to take a screenshot of it. You can do this with any snipping tool, like this one from Windows, by simply dragging and selecting the page you want to capture. The image you create is essentially a static version of your report, but it makes it simple to save and send to your coworkers. The next method is to export your report to PowerPoint.

View Related Items of a Power BI Dashboard

You can use this feature to see the items that are connected to the dashboard that we utilized to develop it. Click on the below-shown icon and view the related items.

Power BI Dashboard Settings

You can change the Power BI dashboard settings like Dashboard Name, Q&A, Dashboard tile flow, etc. by using this option. 

Select the gear icon you will see settings that you can do for example if you don’t if you want to hide the visual header or if you don’t want the end user to save the filter on this report then you can enable this and so that the end user will not be able to save their filters.

Delete Power BI Dashboard

This feature lets you delete the not-in-need Power BI dashboard from the workspace.

A single page, or palette, is what is referred to as a Power BI dashboard and it employs visualizations to convey a story. As it can only fit on one page, a well-designed dashboard delivers only the essentials of the scenario. Dashboards are a feature of the Power BI service. When utilizing Power BI Desktop, they are not available. Mobile devices can be used to view and publish dashboards but not to create them.

The dashboard’s visuals are referred to as tiles. Every report is based on a dataset, and you can pin tiles from those reports to a dashboard. A dashboard serves as an introduction to the reports and datasets that it displays. You can access the report and dataset that the selected visualization is based on by selecting it.