Adding content to an app workspace

After creating an app workspace you see this screen, with the name of the app workspace shown at the top:

You can create new connections to data, but you're more likely to want to add existing reports.

You'll probably now want to add existing datasets, reports or dashboards to your workspace.  One way to do this is to package them up as a content pack; the other way is to re-publish them from Power BI Desktop.  Both ways are shown under separate headings below.

Method 1 - re-publishing reports from Power BI Desktop

Provided that you created your reports originally in Power BI Desktop, you can publish them again, but this time to your app workspace:

With a report open, first choose to publish it from Power BI Desktop in the normal way.

Now choose to publish your report to your new app workspace:

Here I'm publishing this report to Summary of all reports.

You can now recreate any dashboards you need within this workspace:

Here I've published and then renamed two reports, and also created a dashboard.

Method 2 - packaging reports as a content pack

The other way to get reports into your new workspace is via a content pack.  First choose to create one:

Choose this option to create a content pack.

Ignore the message about using app workspaces, and give your content pack a name and assign your app workspace to it:

Content packs will be deprecated at some stage, but for the moment they work fine. You'll need to assign your Summary of all reports app workspace to it.

Tick the things you want your pack to include:

Here I've gone for the full Monty.

Now select your new (empty) app workspace:

Click on your app workspace to select it.

Choose to get data for this:

Click on this icon at the bottom left of the screen.

Choose to get a content pack:

Click on this button.

Under My Organization, choose to get the pack you've just created:

Select the content pack you've just created (mine was called test) and choose to "get it now".

However, this doesn't solve the problem, as you'll see if you choose to publish your app workspace:

If you click on this button to publish your app, you'll see an error message.

This is the error message you'll see:

You can't share content from content packs.

However, you CAN now copy the contents of the content pack:

Click on any of the items in the content pack, and choose to copy it.

You now see this message:

You can confirm that you want to copy the contents of the content pack.

What a palaver!

Your app workspace now includes all the reports, dashboards and datasets in the content pack. Phew.

However, even after copying a content pack, it still doesn't seem possible to publish it as an app:

The message you get when you try to publish an app containing reports copied from a content pack.

Footnote: changing the image next to a workspace

So according to this Microsoft webpage, you can change the icon appearing to the left of a workspace:

Bored of the blue circle? Apparently you can change it to a picture!

You can do this by selecting the workspace, and showing this menu:

However, try as I might I can't get anything to appear apart from the bottom two options.

If anyone can tell me what I've missed, I'd love to hear from you (I suspect this is an option which was included in Power BI within Office 365, but has now been removed).