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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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55295eb0 a9d3-4593-9ce5-97458af0c474 on 05 Jul 2020 23:16:51

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

The folder concepts needs to be placed in Workspace as well. It is becoming unmanageable to look for reports. As an administrator and publisher of reports. Organization is key in the Workspace.

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d3fb0791 4dbc-494f-a832-fcd514096712 on 05 Jul 2020 23:16:48

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

Would be great for this to work for all workspaces and not just apps. Please bear this in mind in your design and implementation.

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c8156f36 2c9d-4108-8749-a9dd053100f9 on 05 Jul 2020 23:16:48

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Yes, please allow us to organize reports and panels and not only apps. This is important when the development is centralized at the IT department and the company has too many users.

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a3309361 99be-ea11-a812-000d3a8ddfb2 on 05 Jul 2020 23:16:29

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

Any update on this? If Apps was your solution then it's not really a solution.... The main problem is that if we want to have a report in two folders (or apps as it is now) we have to republish the data source and report in both place - taking up value memory and it also makes a mission to manage.

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c0580014 2907-4fa2-bb61-327fe25d655b on 05 Jul 2020 23:15:32

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The navigation doesn't help too much. Users go to one workspace to view all reports. Also it's too complicate to train users as instructed in the link: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-new-power-bi-navigation-preview/

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33001eba 16a6-4a28-b1df-8148262bbb25 on 05 Jul 2020 23:15:24

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Please update us whether this is actually going to happen. Even just one level of folders would help

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a3309361 99be-ea11-a812-000d3a8ddfb2 on 05 Jul 2020 23:14:51

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Any update please?

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0974907e cc87-440f-856f-c154061e0db9 on 05 Jul 2020 23:13:48

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Has this been forgotten about? I've now got a long unorganised list of dashboards and it's getting harder to find anything.

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80d32a71 ae1c-4e65-bca7-1a6b1d10b548 on 05 Jul 2020 23:12:26

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Yes. This would be a great addition for enterprise deployment.

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db653e12 e74f-40c2-94f3-9c22921e64ba on 05 Jul 2020 23:12:24

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

What is the status of this planned update? Moving reports from folder to folder and establishing hierarchies within folders would make them much easier to manage.