Quickesign Digital Signage

Power BI

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Show a live Power BI report on your screens. Once it’s connected, your screen keeps showing the latest version of the report. It takes just a few minutes.

What you’ll need

  • The Pro plan or higher.
  • A Power BI account you can sign in to at powerbi.com, with a Power BI Pro license (a free trial works too).
  • At least one report saved in Power BI.
  • A browser that allows pop-up windows from the dashboard: the sign-in opens in a small window.

Steps

  1. Open the layout that will show the report (for a multizone layout, select the slideshow zone and click Details on the bar above it), click the Widgets tab and click Power BI.

    The layout editor with the Widgets tab open and Power BI highlighted

  2. Click Connect Power BI.

    The Power BI window with the Connect Power BI button highlighted

  3. In the small window, sign in with the Microsoft account that has your reports (the same one you use at powerbi.com). When Microsoft asks whether to let Quickesign view your Power BI reports, click Accept. This permission is view-only: Quickesign can display your reports but can never change, delete or share anything in your Power BI account.

  4. Choose the report to show and click Add report. Next time, when Power BI is already connected, the window shows Add a report instead of the sign-in. The window closes on its own and the report is added to the layout. Click Save layout. Screens show a picture of the report that updates regularly; the first picture takes a couple of minutes. Until then the slide shows a placeholder in the editor. When the picture is ready, the editor says Your Power BI report image is ready and the slide shows the report, in the editor and in Preview.

    The Choose a report list with two reports and a Save button

Troubleshooting

  • The window didn’t open. Your browser probably blocked it. Allow pop-ups for the dashboard and click Connect Power BI again.
  • No reports were found. You may have signed in with a different account, or have no saved reports yet. Create and save a report at powerbi.com, or connect again with the right account.
  • The screen says the report needs to be reconnected. Microsoft sometimes asks you to sign in again, for example after a password change. Connect again; your report and settings are remembered.
  • The report is blank or looks wrong. Check that it loads correctly at powerbi.com. If it does, connect again.

What’s next

Adding Layouts to the Screen’s Playlist: put the report on a screen.