Publish a report to a Power BI workspace

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Publishing datasets to a workspace makes them available in the Power BI service. After datasets have been added to the workspace, the following features are enabled:

  • Reports can be shared with people or groups.
  • New reports can be created within the Power BI service.
  • People can use Microsoft Excel to connect to a data model by using the Analyze in Excel option.

To publish a report from Power BI Desktop, select Publish from the Home tab. This control opens a window where you can select the target workspace.

Screenshot shows the Publish to Power BI dialog box where you can select a workspace.

After you select the workspace, a success message appears with a link to go to the report in the Power BI service.

When you publish from Power BI Desktop to the Power BI service, two Power BI artifacts are available:

  • Dataset. The data model, which includes queries, tables, relationships, calculated columns, and measures.
  • Report. The report pages that are created from the data model.