Power BI Plugin Capabilities
This article describes the current capabilities of the Metric Insights Power BI Plugin.
- For more information on the types of objects in Microsoft Power BI, go to Basic concepts for designers in the Power BI service.
| Power BI Objects | Collect Image | Get Data | Embed in a Portal Page | Notes |
| Dataset | - | + | - | |
| Report | + | - | + | |
| Dashboard | + | - | + | |
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Dashboard Tile (pinned Report chart or table) |
+ | - | + | Image can be collected for the entire Dashboard only, not specific Tiles |
|
Dashboard Live Page (pinned Report chart or table) |
+ | - | + | Image can be collected for the entire Dashboard, but not for a specific Live Page |
For more information on embedding Power BI Objects in Portal Pages, see Embedding Overview.
Microsoft Power BI Objects
1. Datasets
- Datasets are collections of data in Microsoft Power BI.
- Data from Power BI Datasets can be fetched to Metric Insights.
2. Reports
- Reports are one or more pages of visualizations (line chars, maps, etc).
- Images can be collected from Power BI Reports via the respective plugin connection profile.
Report Visualizations can be pinned to Dashboards as Tiles.
3. Dashboards
- Dashboards can contain Tiles and Live Pages.
- Metric Insights allows you to collect Image for the entire Dashboard.
3.1. Tiles
- A Tile is a Report visualization element that can be pinned to a Dashboard.
- You can get Images for Tiles.
3.2. Live Pages
- An entire Report can be pinned to a Dashboard as a Live Page.
- Pinning Live Page enables changes to reports to appear in the dashboard tile when the page is refreshed.
- Only images from Live Pages can be fetched by the Metric Insights plugin.
