Power BI documentation

Power BI amplifies your insights and the value of your data. With Power BI documentation, you get expert information and answers to address your needs, no matter how you use Power BI.

What's new

Join the Fabric Community Conference

Get started

Download Power BI Desktop for free

How-To Guide

Create report pages with Copilot

Tutorial

Microsoft Fabric for Power BI users

How-To Guide

Share Power BI reports and dashboards

Training

Get started with DAX

How-To Guide

Configure scheduled refresh

Get started

Row-level security (RLS) in Power BI

Do more in Power BI

Use Power BI software services, apps, and connectors to turn your unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights.

Power BI: Get started

• What is Power BI?
• Get started with Power BI Desktop
• Get started creating in the Power BI service
• See all getting started docs

Copilot in Power BI (preview)

• Copilot for Power BI overview
• Update your data model to work with Copilot (preview)
• Create report pages with Copilot for Power BI (preview)
• See all Copilot docs

Develop in Power BI

• What is Power BI embedded analytics?
• Power BI Embedded
• Develop your own Power BI visual
• See all developer docs

Connect to data

• Connect to data
• On-premises data gateways
• Discover data on the data hub
• See all data connection docs

Model data

• Add a custom column
• Create calculated columns
• Create and manage relationships
• See all data modeling docs

Create reports and dashboards

• Design reports for accessibility
• Create a paginated report based on a shared semantic model
• See all report creation docs

Collaborate and share

• Share dashboards and reports
• Create workspaces
• Add the Power BI app to Microsoft Teams
• See all collaboration docs

Integrate across products

• Azure and Power BI
• Analyze in Excel
• Export and email with Power Automate
• See all product integration docs

Enterprise

• Licensing for users in your organization
• Security
• Data protection
• See all enterprise docs

Administer Power BI

• What is Power BI administration?
• Admin portal settings
• Use the same account for Power BI and Azure
• See all admin docs

Power BI for business users

• Am I a Power BI business user?
• Get around in the Power BI service
• What is a dashboard?
• See all business user docs

Power BI in the mobile apps

• What are the mobile apps?
• Explore dashboards and reports
• Get data on the go with the mobile apps
• See all mobile apps docs

Additional Power BI resources

Best practices guidance

• Fabric adoption roadmap
• Power BI implementation planning
• Optimization guide for Power BI
• See all guidance docs

Learning

• Jumpstart your career with the Career Hub
• Skill up with the Cloud Skills Challenge
• Explore our learning paths
• Explore Fabric capabilities
• See more

Troubleshooting

• Known issues for Fabric and Power BI features
• Troubleshoot refresh scenarios
• Troubleshoot subscribing to reports and dashboards
• See all troubleshooting docs

Support

• Power BI Pro and Power BI Premium support options
• Track Power BI service health in Microsoft 365
• Move Power BI to another region
• See all support docs

Community

• Ask questions in our forums
• Join a user group
• Vote and contribute product ideas
• Update blog: What's new
• See more

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Power BI REST APIs

The Power BI REST APIs provide service endpoints for embedding, administration, and user resources.

Power BI embedded analytics client APIs

A client-side library for embedding Power BI using JavaScript or TypeScript.

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