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The Notification Center (bell icon) is WAY too noisy! Please provide settings for users to customize their notification preferences.

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James Bartlett on 08 Jun 2023 22:43:28

It used to be that I would only receive a notification in the Power BI Notification Center when:

  • Someone tagged me in a comment
  • One of my Template Apps was eligible for an update
  • An upcoming free Power BI training event was announced


But now, starting sometime around the Fabric launch at Microsoft Build 2023, every little routine action (like saving changes to a report or updating the refresh schedule on a dataset) triggers a new notification, and I have to manually clear it from the Notification Center.


First of all, why would I ever need a notification to tell me about a trivial change that I just made 2 seconds ago? I already know, I was there! I was the one who made the change! 🤣


But also, paradoxically, the Notification Center does not notify me about any number of very important things, like:

  • When a manual refresh triggered by me has failed, succeeded, been cancelled by another user, etc.
  • When a scheduled refresh on an artifact owned by me takes X% longer than average
  • When another user "takes over" an artifact owned by me
  • When a user has left the organization, but their account still has explicit individual level permissions to capacities, gateways, workspaces, artifacts, etc.
  • When another user modifies the settings on a workspace on which I am an administrator
  • Etc.


By popping up dozens (or even hundreds) of these pointless notifications every day, Power BI is actively contributing to the growing problem of notification fatigue, which is already particularly acute among workers in technical fields like IT, BI, DA, DE, etc.


Please provide settings that allow users to create, customize, filter, and/or disable notifications by type, severity, workspace, artifact, RegEx string matching, etc. Thank you!