Sharing Content with Colleagues

Power BI apps are the recommended content distribution method for deploying large BI solutions. However, for small teams and more informal collaboration scenarios, an app may create unnecessary overhead and sharing reports and dashboards directly with users provides a simpler, though less scalable alternative. By sharing a dashboard or other content item, the recipient obtains read access to the content. In the case of sharing a dashboard, the user also gains access to the reports supporting the dashboard tiles, and immediate visibility of any changes in the dashboard. Additionally, dashboards, reports, and other content can be shared with Power BI Pro users external to an organization via security groups and distribution lists, and Power BI Pro users can leverage Analyze in Excel as well as the Power BI mobile apps to access shared data. Moreover, Power BI Free users can consume dashboards, reports, and other content shared with them from dedicated...