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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)

Administrator on 11 Jul 2023 23:13:23

Update 10/17: This is now in our upcoming roadmap and we will share more details in the coming months. Mo

March 2022 Update: This is in our plans, no timeline as of yet but we are working on it

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Shiva Shankar Sheela on 27 Jan 2022 03:16:43

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

Hi Team,


@Micrsoft team - when can we expect this feature?


This is a critical feature which has been pending since 2015. Can microsoft look at this feature and come back as its difficult to manage the reports in single workspace?


Regards,

Shiva Shankar Sheela


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Johannes E on 20 Jan 2022 13:48:19

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Would be a crucial useful feature to have at least one more level of hierarchy e.g. for main workspaces:


Finance

Operations

Marketing


That contain sub-workspace


Operations - Inventory

Operations - Assets

Operations - Regions

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Cian O'Sullivan on 12 Jan 2022 11:27:31

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The ability to # or tag reports with certain key words that indicates the report is centred around a particular process or persona would be helpful as well. For example in the Power BI Hub beside Endorsement, Sensitivity etc there should be a column that says Tags where report owners can use certain key words that will allow end users to filter and sort by.

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Mark Martens on 05 Jan 2022 17:52:50

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

Are there any updates to this idea? We are currently reviewing whether to move to PBI Online and this will cause us issues with the number of reports we are using.

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David Salony on 06 Dec 2021 22:31:06

RE: Add Folders To Organize Reports On PowerBI.com

agreed, this issue is so past due... this is a key reason for some reluctance on part of corp users to switch to pbi from other BI analytics platforms

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Eyal Sharvit on 23 Nov 2021 10:28:03

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It's a basic very important feature for large organizations that uses a large number of reports.
It's been Under Review since March 2021, We need to know if this feature will be out soon or not.

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Huay Ling Lim on 18 Nov 2021 02:24:30

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Indeed a necessary much needed functionality to the application (PBI) especially where it is expected that there will be numerous report in production and some gone live and some still work in progress, beta mode. Folders management is a minimal function to help users / designers/ creators deep at work.

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Vithal Maddala on 09 Nov 2021 07:16:37

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Imagine a workspace with hundreds of reports and no way to organise them. It will get messy very quickly. I cannot believe this feature was not available from day one.

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Debbie Edwards on 29 Oct 2021 08:10:40

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So many people are now asking for this. It would be so great if this could be actioned

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on 01 Oct 2021 20:19:51

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Ability organize dashboards, reports and dataset in hierarchy of site (department can share or create multiple sites per LOB) - projects (across team / departments) - folders structure (this is already voted)

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