Sharing content through Power BI apps
Part of the magic of Power BI lies in sharing your dashboards and reports with your coworkers and collaborators. You can do this through workspaces or via Power BI apps. However, these two ways of sharing content have their differences. Let’s explore them.
Apps versus workspaces
When discussing sharing content using workspaces or apps, you may have questions about the difference between the two.
Workspaces are the classic way of sharing reports in Power BI. A workspace is essentially a folder where you can add files; these can be reports, datasets, dashboards, datamarts, dataflows, and even Excel documents, as you saw in the previous section. Each user accessing this workspace can individually access the reports to perform their analysis. However, at some point, it becomes tedious for users to deal with multiple browser tabs or navigate between reports. This situation can be addressed with Power BI apps.
Unlike workspaces, a...