Sharing a Power BI dashboard

You can share an individual dashboard if you have Power BI Pro:

What you'll see if you try to share a dashboard from the free version of Power BI Service.

Sharing a dashboard

To share a dashboard, first select it in Power BI Service:

Select the dashboard that you want to share.

Click on this option at the top right of the Power BI Service window to share the dashboard:

The Share icon.

You can now say with whom you'll share this dashboard:

Specify one or more people within your organisation with whom you'll share your dashboard (and whether they will be allowed to share it in their turn).

You should now see a message confirming that you've been able to share your dashboard:

Yeah!

Viewing a shared dashboard

If you've been sent an email sharing a dashboard, you'll see something like this:

An exciting email from Microsoft!

You can then click on the link this contains.  If you're not signed in to Power BI Service, you'll see this:

You'll need to sign in to a valid Power BI account.

Of course, if you haven't got Power BI Pro ...

Sigh ...

Otherwise, you'll see the shared dashboard!  You can look at usage metrics:

On my machine, this message never disappeared, but I could still see the report.

This creates a report called Report Usage Metrics Report:

Clearly the dashboard I shared wasn't popular!

You can also click on the Subscribe button shown above to say whether you want to know whenever the dashboard is updated:

Here I'm going to get an email whenever someone changes the dashboard.

Next up, how to share whole reports ...