Publish Power BI Desktop Reports

In this article, we show you the step-by-step approach to publishing Power BI desktop reports into Service with a practical example. Before you start publishing reports on the Desktop, you have to sign in to your account using Pro credentials.

TIP: I suggest you refer to the Connect Power BI Desktop with Service article for the procedure to sign in to Power BI Desktop. Please refer to the Create a Power BI Workspace and Power BI Dashboard articles to get in-depth knowledge.

How to Publish Power BI Desktop Reports

Please Navigate yourself to the Home tab, and click the Publish button on the Top right corner.

Click the Publish Button 2

Clicking the button opens a new window called Publish to Power BI. Under the destination section, you have to select the Workspace (if any); otherwise, select the default My Workspace.

Publish Power BI Desktop Reports 3

Please wait until the publishing is finished. As you can see from the screenshot below, it was published successfully. By clicking the Open Report hyperlink, you can see the Visualization, and by clicking the Power BI Quick Insights, you can see the data insights. Let me open the same.

Click on Open report or get quick insights 5

Now you can see the above Report inside your Workspace -> Reports tab. Click on Report1 to see the pages inside that Visualization.

Open Workspace to View Published Power BI Desktop Reports 6

You can see the pages in it

Publish Power BI Desktop Reports 7