Publishing a Power BI Report to the Web

University of Maine System's guide for publishing Power BI reports to a web

Detailed Information

Procedures

Power BI Reports can be uploaded to a public website utilizing the "Publish to Web" option. Since the reports using this option can be viewed by anyone without any authentication, the report authors need to pay extra caution on data security. The University of Maine System recommends the following procedures for publishing reports on a website.

1. Do not include any confidential or personally identifiable information on the report and semantic model.

2. Consider indirect personally identifiable information

3. Please submit Power BI Publish to Web Request form when the report creation is completed.

Limitations

There are some limitations to using the "Publish to Web" option. These reports cannot use the option.

• Reports using row-level security.

• Reports using a shared dataset that is stored in a different workspace from the report.

• Shared and certified datasets.

• Reports shared to you directly or through an organizational content pack.

• Reports in a workspace in which you aren't an edit member.

• "R" and Python visuals aren't currently supported in Publish to web reports.

• Exporting data from visuals in a report that has been published to the web.

• ArcGIS Maps for Power BI visuals.

• Q&A for Power BI visuals.

• Reports containing report-level DAX measures.

• Single sign-on data query models.

• Secure confidential or proprietary information.

• The automatic authentication capability provided with the Embed option doesn't work with the Power BI JavaScript API. For the Power BI JavaScript API, use the user owns data approach to embedding.