Power BI service
Power BI service
In Power BI, the term content refers to apps, dashboards, and reports. Content is created by Power BI designers, who share it with colleagues like you. Your content is accessible and viewable in Power BI, and the best place to start is from your Power BI home.
Explore Power BI Home
When you sign in, Power BI opens and displays your Home canvas, as shown in the following figure.
Power BI Home offers three ways of locating and viewing your content. Though all three accesses the same pool of content, they’re merely different ways of getting to that content. Occasionally, searching will be the easiest and quickest way to find something. Other times, selecting a tile on the Home canvas will be your best option.
- The Home canvas displays and organizes your favorite and most
recent content, along with recommended content and learning resources.
Each piece of content displays as a tile, with a title and icon.
Selecting a tile opens that content.
- Along the side, is a navigation pane. On this pane, your same
content is organized a little differently, by Favorites, Recent, Apps,
and Shared with me. From here, you can view lists of content and select
the one to open.
- In the upper right corner, the global search box lets you search for content by title, name, or keyword.
The following sections review each of these options for finding and viewing content.
Home canvas
On the Home canvas, you can view all the content that you have permission to use. At first, you might not have much content, but that will change as you start to use Power BI with your colleagues.Your Home canvas also updates with recommended content and learning resources. You can find this learning path in the Learn how to use Power BI section.
As you work in Power BI, you’ll receive dashboards, reports, and apps from colleagues, and your Home canvas will eventually fill in. Over time, it might resemble the following Home canvas.
The next few sections take a closer look at the Home canvas, from top to bottom.
Key metrics at a glance
As previously mentioned, on your Home canvas, you can view all the content that you have permission to use. Each piece of content is a tile, and selecting a tile takes you to that piece of content. For example, selecting a tile for a dashboard opens the dashboard.
