Creating mobile reports for Power BI Report Server

In addition to paginated and Power BI reports, you can also create reports designed to be viewed on a mobile phone or tablet through Power BI Report Server.

Installing Mobile Report Publisher

You can create a mobile report from within Power BI Report Server in the same way as for paginated and Power BI reports:

Choose the option shown above to insert a mobile report.

If you don't have Mobile Report Publisher installed on your computer, you'll need to install it:

Click on this button to start the installation process.

You will be taken to this webpage, where you can click on the Download button to download the necessary installation file:

Click to start your download.

When this has finished, click on the downloaded installation file to run it:

Here's what you'll see in Edge, for example.

After four confirmation screens, you'll be asked to choose a location for the software:

If you're read this far, you won't be surprised that I'm choosing the default location.

After confirming you want to proceed, you'll see a status message:

Reassurance that all is going to plan ...

At the end of this your software will be installed.

Creating a new report

You can now create a new mobile report as shown at the top of this page:

Mobile Report Publisher is a strange-looking software application!

Saving your report

When you've finished creating your mobile report, you can save it:

Click on the icon shown to save your report.

Choose to save your report to your report server:

Choose the option shown.

You can now give your report a name:

Here I've called my report Takings by genre.

Viewing mobile reports

Having created and saved a mobile report, you can press F5 in Mobile Report Publisher to view it:

You can click on any mobile report to view it.

Here's what you see for our example:

How my humble report looks when viewed on report server.

And that concludes this long look at Power BI Report Server!