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Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

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Alex Pataky on 22 Aug 2015 02:04:59

RIght now, on powerbi.com, there is no ability to organize reports, dashboards, etc into folders. If you have a lot of content or users, this gets messy quickly.

Please add the ability to organize into folders (and secure those folders separately)

Administrator on 31 Mar 2018 12:20:02

Thank you all for the feedback since our last update. We're working on building a new navigation experience to allow authors to customize a folder-like structure for all the contents within Power BI Apps. Stay tuned!

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8658d386 0386-4edd-82e4-32374a459ec3 on 05 Jul 2020 22:51:38

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

Are we still on track in getting the folders to organize the dashboards?

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88e48787 2ad8-4eca-9f17-6921fced0642 on 05 Jul 2020 22:49:32

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Without Folders capabilities, it gets cluttered pretty fast. Even SSRS has folders. Can we have folders please?

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92cfaa76 7760-4997-b26f-f31fe1cd6795 on 05 Jul 2020 22:48:09

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

I have created many reports and dashboard from my different BU users, and I fund it more and more difficult to management my reports/dashboard.
This organized function, eg. forder ,labels and etc.. . It's very useful for me.

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899ac32d 8168-4101-a011-982259050c5a on 05 Jul 2020 22:47:46

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

folders are needed. when reports, dashboards o datasets belong to the same owner it becomes very messy and the grouping does not help

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082ea458 5e70-4eb7-9873-617052df0351 on 05 Jul 2020 22:47:16

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

Actually, we don't have it. Folders PLEASE...

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7caad5f0 e13e-4561-b50d-a63c2c9a998d on 05 Jul 2020 22:44:15

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

Do we have this function yet?

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7caad5f0 e13e-4561-b50d-a63c2c9a998d on 05 Jul 2020 22:44:09

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

Do we have this function yet?

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d6429334 d63b-43af-94e7-991692d0b423 on 05 Jul 2020 22:43:27

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

You would think the ability to organise content would be a given. I've used t0o many tools that do such a bad job of organising content.

Of course, something is better than nothing, but a bad something will just make you end up hating it.

Microsoft, if you just spent one day with all the developers you have working on Power BI you could solve it. Spend two days and you would rise above a lot of the vendors.

Let me know if you want me to test any solution, i'll test it for free!



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4ef379c6 c03e-443c-8150-e73bd00593ab on 05 Jul 2020 22:39:08

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All I want is a way to provide a little organization for the poor, overwhelmed users who first connect to Power BI - so they don't see a huge long string of dashboards and reports.

As as administrator, I need to be able to group reports for my users and assign permission to see those folders by AD security group. The interface right now can get cluttered. I can create Office 365 groups and publish dashboards that way. But this is huge overkill for most of what I do.

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2c08ab26 f6bd-473c-9ce2-57e287303947 on 05 Jul 2020 22:38:47

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it is necessary to have group for reports and dashboard.