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Find your new dashboard in the workspace at https://app.powerbi.com. Copy the URL into notepad or another text editor. It should look something like this:
You'll need to extract two, thirty-six character codes out of the URL to put into Projector. The first is the Workspace ID. The second is the Report ID. In the above URL they would be:
- Workspace ID = 7b087de2-53a5-4cc7-b51d-0d780508debb
- Report ID = 0c06c76a-0745-4a13-8bbd-abc108388407
We'll be using them in the next section.
Configure Projector Dashboard
Now that you have connected Projector can now be configured to connect to this dashboard. to PowerBI, pulled Projector data into PowerBI (optional), and published your dashboard to the web you can now display it one of three areas of Projector.
This next section explains how to show a dashboard on a home page, but the same steps apply to the other areas.
- Identify a user you want to show a PowerBI dashboard to
- Note their primary user type
- Edit that user type and go to the dashboards tab
- Name the dashboard
- Tick the checkbox for User's Home Page
- Enter a height (800 is often good)
- Choose MS Power BI from the Display dropdown box
- In the previous step you noted your Workspace and Report IDs. Enter them here
- Leave the Filters area empty for now. The next section will explain how filters work
Log into Projector Web as the user. On My Home Page you should see your PowerBI dashboard displayed.
