>Assuming you have some kind of Cloud license like Power BI Pro (which starts at $9.95 a month), if you want to "publish public, to the web", with no expectation of privacy, there are two offerings
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> - Power BI will generate a long URL string that you can send to anyone (that's the approach I took)
>- Power BI can generate iFrame HTML code that you can put into your own web page
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>Again, I took the first of those. So I didn't build a separate custom web page. I designed the report in Power BI desktop against data I brought down from the NYT.....published the report up to my Power BI Pro cloud site....and then took the option to share the URL for the report with "everyone in the world".
Basically, every time you would want to get a new updated set of data, you would generate everything from Power BI desktop. Then, I assume the publish sends the data to a server somewhere making it available publically on the web under port 80 or 443. But, once published to another server, it means you need to have a server which responds to the URL. In this case, I assume it is Power BI service. From what I read, Power BI Pro is a cloud-based solution, which you probably installed on a server having a public IP on the Internet. Then, it answers on those ports based on the URL constructed. With that, if only a URL is needed for someone to use the data, I understand you don't need IIS. However, if someone would like to have several URLs available for various data, then IIS would be involved to host those pages until Power BI service takes over the request. My question is the following. If you build several dashboards, would you prefer to use a lot of URLs available to answer those needs or you would define one URL entry point into Power BI service which could give access to a default page with a list of available dashboards and reports?
>Now...suppose you want to generate a long URL, but only permit people in your domain to see it.
>There is also an option in Power BI cloud, so that you can publish a report with a URL....but only share it with domain users (or use the iFrame HTML code to embed it in one of your domain web pages)
What I would like is one entry page into Power BI service so users would get an overview of all dashboards and reports available and navigate from there.
>There's no one single website that will explain it all, but this one is a pretty good start:
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/collaborate-share/service-publish-to-webYes, that's the page I initially read. It gave me a good overview of those functionalities.
Thanks
