Accessible items through Power BI:

With the NowSignage Power BI integration, you are able to access the following items through the Power BI service:

1. Power BI Reports (It is possible to also filter by report section or report bookmark)

2. Power BI Dashboards



Permissions Required:

When connecting your Power BI account in NowSignage, you will need to consent to the following permissions:



Account Access Required:

The reports/dashboards you wish to display must be within a 'Workspace' in your Power BI account, it is not possible to access 'My Workspace' through the integration as this is a private workspace.


The user you connect within NowSignage either needs an Admin, Member or Contributor role within the workspace in order to add your reports/dashboard to NowSignage. Each workspace member needs a Power BI Pro or Premium Per User (PPU) license.



Guidance Around Embedded Tokens:

The Power BI integration requires you to have an account which has a dedicated embed tokens capacity, this is used to securely access and display the reports/dashboards. 

By default all Power BI Pro accounts come with a limited amount of free tokens, however these will eventually expire and then a capacity is required. A Power BI plan with premium or embedded capacity is required to ensure you have sufficient token capacity.

Please see the Microsoft Support page which provides guidance on how to determine your embed token capacity:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/power-bi/developer/embedded/embedded-faq#what-is-the-difference-between-the-a-skus-in-azure-and-the-em-skus-in-office-365


Pricing details can be found here (this is handled directly by Microsoft):

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/details/power-bi-embedded/


Once you have purchased a token capacity, you will need to assign the tokens to the workspace you are using within NowSignage:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/enterprise/service-admin-premium-manage



For further information, please see the link below:

https://cdn.nowsignage.com/docs/Power+BI+for+NowSignage+User+Documentation.pdf