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Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

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Alex Pataky on 22 Aug 2015 02:04:59

RIght now, on powerbi.com, there is no ability to organize reports, dashboards, etc into folders. If you have a lot of content or users, this gets messy quickly.

Please add the ability to organize into folders (and secure those folders separately)

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on 02 Nov 2022 23:58:41

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

Folders in workspaces foster hierarchical organization within workspaces. Currently, you can create workspaces but each report is on the same level within those workspaces. You as administrator can't organize them and users that have access to those workspaces have to scroll through multiple reports.

Seems like a very Microsoft feature that folks would use and like!

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on 02 Nov 2022 23:58:41

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

Workspaces with many reports can be overwhelming and hard to navigate. Being able to create folders within workspaces to organize reports and dashboards would be super helpful

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David Cunningham on 13 Oct 2022 09:57:13

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

Been an issue for me for years

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Mario Alberto MARIN HERRERA on 13 Oct 2022 09:53:04

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it is needed. Create a worspace is lot of management work, when you just need subfolders!

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Alexis Jensen on 10 Oct 2022 00:35:06

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

This hierarchy of folders is needed as soon as possible.

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David Salony on 20 Sep 2022 16:24:56

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reading the comments above, it's amazing MS hasn't sorted this out... YOUR COMPETITORS HAVE. you are really alienating a lot of your loyal customers.

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David Salony on 20 Sep 2022 16:22:20

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

this has been 'in your plan' for years now... when are you going to make it happen?!? this is consistently the Achille's heal for powerbi... you need to allow a workspace to be set up like File Manager with different security/access per subfolder

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Laurence S on 24 Aug 2022 17:34:34

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

Using Power BI in a large organization is like a disaster with reports, data sources, apps scattered everywhere.

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Greg Olson on 04 Aug 2022 18:28:27

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

This feature has been requested for so long - many years. Really, why hasn't this been implemented? I can't think of a feature that would provide more bang for the buck in terms of user satisfaction.

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Richard Franklin on 27 Jul 2022 16:47:28

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

We have mature deployments of Tableau and MicroStrategy and have recently started using Power BI. This is a feature that your competitors have and it's absence is making adoption of Power BI difficult.

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