Delete a dashboard, report, workbook, semantic model, or workspace - Power BI (2024)

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Delete a dashboard, report, workbook, semantic model, or workspace - Power BI? ›

The most straightforward way to remove a semantic model from the Power BI service is to select the corresponding semantic model in workspace and right-click on the delete option. Note: When you delete a semantic model, Power BI Services also deletes all reports and dashboard tiles that use data from the semantic model.

The most straightforward way to remove a semantic model from the Power BI service is to select the corresponding semantic model in workspace and right-click on the delete option. Note: When you delete a semantic model, Power BI Services also deletes all reports and dashboard tiles that use data from the semantic model.

My workspace is only accessible by you. My Workspace allows you to share dashboards and reports. You'll need to work in a workspace if you want to collaborate on dashboards and reports, or if you want to construct an app. Power BI workspaces: These are used to share and collaborate on content with teammates.

A Power BI report is a multi-perspective view into a semantic model, with visuals that represent findings and insights from that semantic model. A report can have a single visual or many pages full of visuals.

Select the ellipsis icon on the dashboard tab and then Delete. Tip: An alternative is to navigate to Dashboard Manager, selecting the ellipsis icon next to the dashboard and then Delete dashboard.

From My Workspace

Highlight the report(s) you want to delete in the grid. Right Click and select Delete. Data Access Studio will move your deleted reports to the Recycle Bin. Any report in the Recycle Bin can be recovered simply by moving it to another folder.

Power BI semantic models represent a source of data that's ready for reporting and visualization. You can create Power BI semantic models in the following ways: Connect to an existing data model that isn't hosted in Power BI.

A semantic model is a metadata model that contains physical database objects that are abstracted and modified into logical dimensions. A semantic model is designed to present data for analysis according to the structure of the business.

The term dataset is too generic and has different meanings in other data-related contexts, especially in Microsoft Fabric. The semantic model is a more accurate term for the underlying database in Power BI, which is based on Analysis Services data models and provides the authoritative source of truth for reports.

What is the difference between a dashboard and a workspace? ›

You would use the Workspace to collaborate with your team, manage resources, and track the progress of these initiatives. You would use Dashboards to present and communicate the progress, resource allocation, risks, and performance of these initiatives to stakeholders and make data-driven decisions.

There is no way for Power BI Service Administrators to disable personal workspaces from the admin portal. This personal workspace can be seen as a personal playground in which every user can do whatever they would like. Personal workspaces exist independent of licenses.

Administration for workspaces is in the Power BI admin portal. Power BI admins decide who in an organization can create workspaces and distribute apps. Read about managing users' ability to create workspaces in the "Workspace settings" article. Admins can also see the state of all the workspaces in their organization.

Push semantic models don't contain a formal definition of a data source, so they don't require you to perform a data refresh in Power BI. You refresh them by pushing your data into the semantic model through an external service or process, such as Azure Stream Analytics.

Purpose: Dashboards are used for high-level monitoring, often in real-time or near-real-time, providing a consolidated view of business performance. Reports, on the other hand, are used for in-depth analysis and exploration of data to answer complex business questions.

Limitations of the Semantic Model in Power BI

Refresh Limitation: On the standard Power BI service, you can only refresh your semantic models up to eight times a day. Performance Impact: The way your model works (like in Import mode, where data is fully loaded into the Power BI memory) can affect how well it performs.

Go to the workspace view, click the elipse next to the “Update app, manage access, workspace settings” menu. One of the options is Unpublish app. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/collaborate-share/service-create-distribute-apps#:~:text=consumers%20experience%20apps.-,Unpublish%20an%20app,Unpublish%20app.

Go to more options of the user you want to remove and click on Remove access as illustrated. To remove access, click on Remove access and get the below window dialog, then click on Remove access as depicted. Similarly, to remove the reshare option to the user, click on the … (more options) and click on Remove reshare.

To permanently remove a tile from a dashboard, select More options > Delete tile from the ellipses dropdown menu. Deleting a tile doesn't delete the underlying visualization.