December brought comments on reports, report themes, portal access control by day and time and the new report events audit. API keys gained per-endpoint permissions and dataset refresh scheduling gained copying of times between days of the week.
December 20, 2024
Improvements
- Comment management in the Administration Portal: the new Power BI › Reports › Comments screen brings together all comments made on reports and lets you remove them, and each report's Actions menu gained a Comments shortcut. Comments are also available on reports opened inside applications.
December 18, 2024
New features
- Comments on reports: the report bar in the Reports Portal gained the Comments button, which opens a panel where users can record observations, ideas and questions in the context of the data. Administrators can disable comments on a specific report, when editing the report, or on all reports, through the Block comments on reports option in the global blocks.
Improvements
- Reports reopen with the latest filters: the Reports Portal now keeps the latest filters applied by the user on each report, including reports opened inside applications. When users come back to the report, they pick up the analysis where they left off.
December 13, 2024
New features
- API keys with per-endpoint permissions: you can now generate API keys that give access only to a chosen set of endpoints. Each integration gets only the permissions it needs, which reduces the risk if a key is exposed. See the documentation
December 10, 2024
New features
- Report events audit: the new audit records user interactions with reports, with information such as date, time, user email, report, event type and page. Results can be filtered and exported for analysis in Excel or Power BI.
December 7, 2024
Improvements
- Copy the schedule to other days: in dataset refresh scheduling, you can now copy the times configured for one day of the week to other days, without registering them again.
December 6, 2024
New features
- Access control by day and time: in the visualization portal settings, you can now define on which days of the week and at which times the portal can be accessed. Outside that period, users see a message saying that access is blocked. This increases security and control over how the tool is used.
December 5, 2024
New features
- Report themes: in the visualization portal settings, you can now apply a Power BI theme to the reports shown in the portal, with colors and styles that match your organization's identity. You can set a default theme and customize the theme per company.