You can securely link a Power BI account with embed to display dashboards and reports from their Workspace on their digital signage. This is a completely secure integration where the user must authenticate their Power BI account with embed using their Microsoft credentials. Once done, you'll be able to choose from your Workspaces, Reports and Dashboards to display them on your digital signage.

First, you need to link your Power BI Pro or Premium account with embed.

Go to the External Services section in Account Settings and click Add New: https://app.embedsignage.com/admin/account/services

Give your service a Name and select 'PowerBI' from the Services list and click Create:

Now you'll need to Authorise the service. Click on the 'Authorise' Button. You'll be redirected to Microsoft where you'll need to sign in to your Microsoft account.

Once signed in, you'll be asked to grant embed signage PowerBI Integration permission to view data from your account. Click Accept:

Once authorised you'll be redirected back to your account where you'll see the PowerBI Integration has been authorised:

If you need to, you can setup more than one service on embed meaning you could integrate several Power BI accounts to display on your signage.

Go and edit a layout then edit a zone playlist. Now click on Widgets, then the Power BI Widget:

With the Power BI Widget now inserted into the zone playlist, click on the title or the edit icon to configure:

You'll see the Power BI Settings on the right side of the playlist panel which include:

Single Page - select a specific single page from a report

Cycle Through All Pages - with option to select the start page

User Selected Playlist of Pages - select which pages to play and in which order

Once done, click finished editing playlist. You can now Save the layout. Feel free to Save & Preview to check the content or you can go ahead and Publish the layout to your chosen devices via a Channel.

If you want to use a touch device to interact with the content, such as tabs on a Report or scrolling on a Dashboard, then you can easily enable touch in the layout.

Go to the playlist item and select the interactivity options:

Set the 'Pass gestures to application?' option to Yes and save

Now, when you publish the content to a touch device you'll be able to interact with it.

Once your embed account is linked to Power BI, it will automatically fetch all available data at the time of setup. After that, any new Workspaces, Reports or Dashboards you add to Power BI will need to be Sync'd in embed.

It's very easy to do and is done by going into the widget and hitting the 'Sync' button under the chosen service. You'll see there is a timestamp that shows when the accounts were last sync'd. Once you hit 'Sync' embed will retrieve all the latest Workspaces, Reports and Dashboards available on the Power BI account for you to use.

Below we've outlined the platforms the Power BI integration works without any intervention on the device itself.

You'll see reports load with a pop up on screen like below:

On your device, you will need to connect a keyboard and mouse via USB and then select 'Don't show this again' followed by 'Not Now'. This will then load the report on the device.

For BrightSign devices, as you cannot see the cursor of a mouse connected, please connect a USB Keyboard then Tab to 'Don't show this again' and toggle on using the spacebar. Then tab to 'Not Now' and hit enter.

To display a Power BI Dashboard or Report via the embed signage Power BI widget will require good, efficient browser performance and processor on the playback device, amongst other things. This means that some Reports and Dashboards are more suited to powerful devices. If you experience issues with playback performance on a platform, please review the below:

If you have tried the above but still encounter issues with playback, please contact [email protected] with details of your playback device, app version and layout structure so we can further assist you.