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Show MS Power BI Dashboards on any info screens: Dashboard App - Activate and use
Show MS Power BI Dashboards on any info screens: Dashboard App - Activate and use

Show Power BI dashboards on any info screen securely without making URLs public using MS Entra ID Authentication

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Secure integration with Entra ID authentication (previously know as Azure AD authentication). Microsoft Power BI dashboard app lets you show the dashboards from Power BI on info screens.

Presets:

  • Using this apps requires an active MS Power BI account

  • Dashboard exist in My Workspace or in Shared workplaces


MS Power BI Dashboard app - Activate and use

Easiest way for activating a content App is from Valotalive Dashboard. Just click the icon of the content you wish to activate and proceed. More detailed info of the first steps can be found here:

Settings on the Apps' Configuration tab

  1. Authenticate Valotalive with MS Power BI with OAuth
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  2. Choose the preferred dashboard from the drop down list as shown below
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    NOTE! If the Report list is empty, or missing your report please check the following

    • You as a Power BI user have

      • access to the report in question in the Power BI and

      • access to the report in question in the Power BI cloud:
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        Report should be located either in the My Workspace or in the Shared Workspace

    • Some permissions in the Microsoft ecosystem can be set to admin-restricted. Power BI app requests User consent for

    • Valotalive Power BI Application needs to be enabled in the Entra ID Enterprise applications directory.
      Read more about enabling the Enterprise applications from the article: MS Entra ID integrations & Valotalive on the Enterprise applications directory

  3. SHOW ADVANCED
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    1. Width of the dashboard in pixels

    2. Height of the dashboard in pixels
      NOTE! You need to adjust your Power BI dashboard to meet the aspect ratio of your screens as Power BI dashboards don't scale to fit the screens automatically.

    3. App reload interval
      How often is app reloaded (causes flicker)

Complete the work by adding the app to a flow or directly to a display.

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