Share a dashboard with somebody who has no Power BI licence

Sharing a report inside Power BI normally means that the person reading it is in your organisation and licensed to. For a customer, an auditor, a board member on a phone, or a colleague in another company, that is often the end of it. DASH:Gen can build the same dashboard as a single .html file instead.

What the recipient gets

One file with the charts, the KPI tiles, a filter bar and a searchable table. Clicking a bar filters every other chart. Everything is computed in the browser from the rows embedded in the file, and the file loads nothing from anywhere: its own content policy forbids it. It opens in aeroplane mode and behind a firewall that allows nothing. See the live example for what that looks like.

Two ways to hand it over

• The file. Download it and send it by e-mail or put it on a share. It is the whole dashboard.
• A link. Share it from the window. The link is served with a no-index header and a sandbox, lasts as long as the dashboard's file is kept (seven days from the first version), and stops the moment you stop it.

The honest limits

• The rows are inside the file. Whoever has the file has the data. Send it only to people who may see all of it, or build it from an export that holds only what they may see.
• Nothing refreshes. A new month means a new version, built from a newer file.
• It is not Power BI. There is no semantic model, no row-level security and no DAX. If the recipients do have licences, a Power BI project is the better artifact.

Step by step

1. Open dashgen.de and drop in the same file the Power BI report was built from.
2. Describe what the dashboard should show and press Generate HTML.
3. Download it, or press Share for a link.

The HTML dashboard page lists what the file contains.

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