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Curator enables you to embed Power BI reports as a seamless part of your portal, providing your users with a unified analytics experience, streamlining access to critical insights.

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Prerequisites

Before adding Power BI reports to Curator, ensure you have established your Power BI connection and have reports published to a Power BI workspace.

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Creating a Power BI Report in Curator

To add a new Power BI report to your Curator portal follow the steps below:
  2. Click the New Report button
    Add new Power BI report from list page
  3. Fill out the details in the Create Power BI Report form:
    Create new Power BI report
    • Workspace: Select the Power BI workspace containing the report.
    • Report: Select the specific report to embed.
    • Title: This appears in navigation menus and page titles - can be different from the Power BI report name.
The display options will allow you to control the appearance of the toolbar, the persistence of filters, the appearance of the filter pane as well as the Power BI report Page Navigation.

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Display Settings Reference

The Report tab exposes the following display toggles:
Not every Power BI SDK setting is surfaced as a Curator option. The following are not currently configurable through Curator’s interface:
  • Status bar / zoom slider (bars.statusBar.visible) — the zoom control rendered at the bottom of a report
  • Zoom level — a programmatic zoom override
  • Bookmarks pane — showing or hiding the bookmarks panel
If you need one of these settings, submit a feature request through your support channel.
Optionally, explore the Discovery and Display tabs to further customize how the report appears and is found by users or linked to other content across your site. Be sure to save your report before navigating away from the page.

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Mobile Layout

When the viewport is 768px or narrower, Curator automatically switches Power BI reports to the mobile-optimized MobilePortrait layout and oneColumn page view. This uses the mobile layout authored in Power BI Desktop or the Power BI Service. If a report does not have a mobile layout, Power BI falls back to the standard landscape layout.
To take full advantage of this feature, author a mobile layout for your Power BI report in Power BI Desktop/Service. Without one, the report will still render on mobile but will use the default desktop layout scaled to fit the screen.
Power BI dashboards also switch to oneColumn page view on mobile viewports but do not use MobilePortrait since dashboards do not support mobile layouts.

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Adding Reports to Navigation

After creating a report, add it to your site’s menu for easy access and automated authorization.

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Adding Reports to Pages

Once a Power BI Report has been added to Curator it can also be added to pages for a more dynamic layout. Embed Power BI reports in custom pages using the Page Builder.

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Security Considerations

Curator utilizes the permissions set within your Power BI tenant including both workspace-level permissions as well as direct-access permissions.

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Workspace-Level Access

When a user has access to a workspace, they automatically have access to all reports within that workspace. Curator checks workspace access to determine report visibility. Due to performance concerns we strongly recommend utilizing workspace-level access whenever possible.

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Direct Report Access

If a user does not have access to a workspace, Curator will check for direct access permissions to individual reports. This allows for more granular control over report access but can lead to performance issues due to limitations in the Power BI APIs.