Publishing to the Power BI service

Publishing to the Power BI service

Use when you want to publish a new report, or update an existing report with refreshed data

Instructions

To publish your report to the Power BI service:

• Ensure that you are signed in to your Power BI account in Power BI Desktop
• Save the Power BI project
• Go to Home > Publish
• Choose your workspace (if prompted)
• Wait for the publishing to complete

At this point, you can log in to PowerBI.com via either of the following methods:

• Click the link in the confirmation dialog. This will take you to the login page, and then directly to your report.
• Go to PowerBI.com and log in. You will need to navigate to your report.

Hints & tips

• Re-publishing will update your data set
• Re-publishing will also overwrite any previous reports to update them