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REST API to share a dashboard.

REST API access to share a dashboard. It would be really useful to be able to share a dashboard via the API. This would allow us to interact with users on a website or in an application and then present them with a button to "Add To My PowerBI". Or another example, have an API call that I can loop over to share a dashboard with 1000+ users.

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I have a ASP.NET application which uses the REST API to push data to Power BI. Everything goes as expected except when i try to update a table schema. When is do this i get a 200 response and no errors. However i can take up to 10 minutes before the update is visible inside Power BI. I hope someone can explain this delay to me. Thanks ahead! Bart

Power BI

SVG layer support for background images

When adding a SVG as a background image, it would be useful to have layers that turn on and off. There may be some elements that do not apply to every page. Without a layer functionality, the only solution is to have different SVG files for each variation of the elements turned on and off. While there is no standard for layers in SVGs, nearly every authoring package uses a g element with an ID to identify layers in SVG.

My request is that when a SVG with "g+ID" layers is used as a background, a list is provided which allows these elements to be individually shown or hidden.

Power BI

SVG function support

It would be great if you could add support for functions within SVG files. Function calls in Power BI Desktop throws an error message when triggered and in the web service they simply don't work (no error message). Tags: SVG, function, javascript, ecmascript

Power BI

SVG file import to Visio Visual

Power BI can: 1. Import Visio and link data to shape; 2. Import SVG file and visualize; But the 2 functions can not cooperate yet: user can not show SVG file on Visio Visual. Hope that we can enable the SVG shape visible on Visio Visual.

Developer APIs

Trigger refreshes for datasets using API

Instead of refreshing a dataset based on a schedule, I would like to trigger running a refresh on demand. A REST API that I could use to get the history of refreshes, current status of refresh, and start a refresh would be helpful.

Power BI

SVG Image Insert

Simple way to insert a SVG like it is for PNG, JPG, or other image formats.

Developer APIs

Push data via API into an existing model

Without the ability to define my model in Excel or the Power BI designer with relationships and DAX calculations and column properties/formatting, it's going to be very difficult to get my dashboards to work and look as I want. I would like to be able to upload an Excel or Power BI Designer model then use the API to push new data into it real-time. I'd also like to be able to schedule refresh and decide what happens to the API pushed data during scheduled refresh. For example, I may upload a model with 100,000 rows, then use the API to add 5,000 new rows. But during scheduled refresh those 5,000 new rows are also in my SQL source so I want to wipe out the API pushed data upon scheduled refresh.

Power BI

SVG - support title element for custom tooltips

When custom SVG visuals are added to a table or matrix, by default they have a tooltip which is the SVG source code. While this is useful in the development phase, it is not something to present to end users. There are many tutorials out there offering a way to hide the tooltip, e.g.

Hiding SVG Image Code from Tooltips in Power BI — Havens Consulting

Embedding SVG images in Power BI – part 2 - KPMG Poland

These methods are either to use 100% transparency (no tooltip) or a report page.

These may work for simpler custom SVGs that present a single value. I am currently working on a custom calendar view that sits in a matrix. This means one SVG item is representing multiple data points. I would like to add a tooltip for each day showing the value. This could be achieved by adding a title to the related element. This would allow at least a simple text tooltip.

Developer APIs

Add REST API call to add new table to existing dataset

The REST API supports dataset operations but does not allow adding a new table to an existing dataset. It does allow adding new columns/fields to existing tables - but the inability to add new tables is a huge hole in the API.