Welcome to PowerBI Tiles Desktop Pro

Welcome to DevScope PowerBI Tiles Desktop Pro Add-In for MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook and MS Word.

PowerBI Tiles Desktop Pro is a MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook and MS Word add-in that allows you to embed MS PowerBI Visuals - Tiles and Reports – into a PowerPoint deck, Outlook message or Word document.

Now you can embed PowerBI visuals into a PowerPoint presentation, Outlook message or Word document as easy as you would add an image or a clipart, and you can even format its appearance with shadows, rotations or any other effects imaginable.

You can also selectively update/refresh those visuals at any time keeping the shapes with the original format with just one click.

Overview

Features

Here is a list of features of PowerBI Tiles Desktop Pro for PowerPoint, Outlook or Word Add-In

· Integrated credentials. Login into PowerBI with your credentials as you would do on the main site

· Visuals catalog preview. Integrated web browser that allows you to preview and select the items to insert while visually navigating your PowerBI visuals catalog.

· Access items from your workspace - tiles and reports - as well as your PBI groups or the ones you have access.

· Inserts PBI visuals as static images. You can apply any kind of format of effect as you would normally do on a regular image.

· Select and add report pages individually.

· Filter Reports and Report Pages. You can filter the reports and pages according to the present filter pane and the rendered images will be rendered with those filters in place. This allows you to create multiple variations of those reports and pages.

· Update the PBI Visuals selectively at any time with one click update.

· Share your presentations with anyone without any restrictions.

· Control the size and quality of your visuals. Enables rendering control over the image quality of the embedded visuals.

· Embed timestampsin shapes to better control what and when it was updates.

· Works in MS office 2013 and 2016, x86 and x64 versions.

System Requirements

Requirements

There are only a few requirement that you need to have in order for PowerBI Tiles Desktop Pro to work on your device:

· Your Operating System must be Microsoft Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10.

· Microsoft Office must be installed

· You need to have a valid PowerBI account in order to access your visuals.

· You need to have a valid PowerBI Tiles Desktop Pro license from DevScope.

· Internet connection.

How to install and license

Where to Download

Download the PowerBI Tiles Desktop Pro for PowerPoint, Outlook or Word Add-In

In order to download the setup file:

· Navigate your browser to DevScope website http://www.devscope.net

· Click the products item in the main tab.

· Then click the Power BI Tiles Desktop Pro product title.

On the details product page you will see two buttons on the upper left area of the page.

· The first button is to install the online version.

· The second button is to download the desktop version setup.

· The third button is to buy the product.

If you click on the third button you will be redirected to the online store where you will see the product info with detailed prices and required quantity of licenses to buy.

You can proceed with the buying process by choosing the type of license you need and then click the Buy button.

Your buy will be added to the shopping cart and you will have instructions on how to finalize your purchase.

Following the buying process you will receive an email with detailed instructions on how to download and use the product.

If you click on the second button, you will receive an zip file with three executable files:

· One to use PowerBI Tiles Pro Desktop on MS PowerPoint

· Other to use PowerBI Tiles Pro Desktop on MS Outlook

· And other to use PowerBI Tiles Pro Desktop on MS Word

Installation

How to install

After all initial process to download the software.

You should download the zip file and run the setup program. Follow the next steps to install PowerBI Tiles Desktop Pro for MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook and MS Word:

· Exit the MS module(click the File tab, and then click the Exit button).

· Unzip the file that you downloaded previously following the steps stated in the previous chapters.

· After unzip of that file, you will find 3 setup files on the extracted folder.

a. One executable file named PowerPoint…_32.exe that should be used if you have MS PowerPoint installed

b. One executable file named Outlook…_32.exe that should be used if you have MS Outlook installed

c. One executable file named Word…_32.exe that should be used if you have MS Word installed

· Run the setup program according with your preference

· Follow the instructions that will be showed on your screen for the installation program.

First you should select the installation language

Next, you can to choose installation path. By default it will be installed on your user AppData folder.

Installation will begin and the program will be installed on selected folder.

When installation is completed, a window with a finished message will appear and the software will be installed.

Then you need to run MS PowerPoint and select PowerBI Tiles Desktop Pro tab, as showed in the image below.

If you click the About button or click the Login button, a dialog window will appear that enables you to license the product.

You will need to click the View License Information & Support button, to proceed with the license registration that will be described in detail in the next chapter.

How to activate your license

Activate your license

In order to use the software you need to activate it with the license that you have received by email.

1. First open MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook or MS Word.

2. A dialog will appear that will register this software into PowerPoint as an add-in.

3. Complete the process with the guided instructions of the setup.

4. After the setup completion you will see a new tab in PowerPoint “PowerBI Tiles Desktop Pro”

You are now ready to activate and use the software.

To activate your license please do the following:

1. Click the About button

2. Copy the activation key received by email, and paste it into the Activation Key textarea on the License dialog. Click on button Activate License Now to continue.

The software will activate your license. As showed on image below, after licensing the product, you will receive information, about license status.

Uninstallation

How to uninstall PowerBI Tiles Desktop Pro

To uninstall PowerBI Tiles Desktop Pro follow the next steps:

· Exit MS module (click the File tab, and then click Exit).

· Click the Windows Start button, click Control Panel, and then double-click Add/Remove Programs.

· Click the item in the list of installed programs as stated in the image below, and then click the Uninstall button.

· Follow the instructions in the installation program.

How to use

Login into PowerBI

Integrated Login into PowerBI

If the product is already licensed (trial or full version), as showed in the previous steps, the first thing you need to do is to gain access to PowerBI from PowerPoint.

1. Click the Login button.

2. Here you need to authenticate with your PowerBI credentials to continue

3. After Sign-In you should be ready to commence using PBI Tiles Desktop Pro.

Now you can add PowerBI Tiles and Reports into PowerPoint, Outlook or Word directly. Two new options will be enabled.

1. Add PowerBI Visuals

2. Refresh.

You are now ready to start embedding PowerBI visuals into PowerPoint, Outlook or Word.

Interface

Add PowerBI Visuals

1. Add Checked – Allows you to add to the PowerPoint deck the currently displayed PowerBI item.

2. Add Checked – Allows you to add to the PowerPoint deck the PowerBI items checked in the PowerBI Items catalog.

3. One Shape Per Slide – If checked, when multiple PowerBI items are checked, each one of them will be put on a new slide.

4. Start With New Slide - If checked, when multiple PowerBI items are checked, the first item will be inserted on a new slide rather than being inserted on the current slide.

5. Close After Insert - If checked, the form will close after inserting the visuals.

6. Set Hyperlinks - If checked, the images inserted will contain an hyperlink to the online powerbi location of that visual – tile or report.

7. Uncheck After Insert - If checked, all items checked will be unchecked after each insert.

8. Width - Allows you to define the width of the browser window that will be used when rendering the PowerBI item.

9. Height - Allows you to define the height of the browser window that will be used when rendering the PowerBI item.

10. Refresh View – Whenever you change the Width or Height settings of the browser window used to render the PowerBI item, you can click this button to preview the results immediately.

11. Render Wait Delay – Allows you to control the time that the browser should wait before taking a snapshot of the PowerBI item. It’s very useful when you have items like reports that include components such as maps, or other similar items that take some additional time to render completely.

12. Reload All – Triggers a complete update of the PowerBI Items Catalog

13. Reload Selected - Triggers a partial update of the PowerBI Items Catalog specifically on the selected group.

Refresh

1. Update Checked – Allows you to automatically update/refresh the content of the checked shapes linked to PowerBI items keeping all the related effects and format.

2. Delay Render – Allows you to control the time that the browser should wait before taking a snapshot of the PowerBI item. It’s very useful when you have items like reports that include components such as maps, or other similar items that take some additional time to render completely.

3. Tile View Size – Specified the mode that will be used for rendering the PowerBI items and link it to the current shape dimensions.

4. Slides To Refresh – Specify the behavior to apply when refreshing the selected slides

Add PowerBI Visuals

Embed PowerBI visuals easily

You can embed Tiles and Report pages into PowerPoint slide easily by following the next steps

1. Click the Add PowerBI Visuals button

2. A similar window like the one below will be displayed. Here, you can navigate through you PowerBI items and once you select any item you will see a preview of that tile or report.

3. If you select any report, you will get access to all pages of that report and you can select them individually.

4. Then all you need to do to add an item to PowerPoint is :

a. Check that item on the respective checkbox

b. Click the Add Checked button and wait for the rendering process to finish.

Update your presentation

Update your presentation with only 3 clicks

When you add a PowerBI item into a PowerPoint using our software you are able to apply any effects or formats to it, but more importantly, you can later refresh or update its content while keeping all the effects and formats applied previously.

If PowerBI item data has changed, you only need to refresh your presentation without having to insert all items again.

PowerBI Tiles Desktop Pro will handle all the content changes without losing any effects or format applied to those items.

So here are the simple steps required to refresh your presentation:

1. Click on Refresh button

2. Check the PowerBI Tiles Pro Desktop/Visuals that you want to update

3. Click on Update Checked button

After the refresh process finishes you will see that all the checked items were updated.

Reference

Check more information on DevScope site on follow link http://www.devscope.net/products/PowerBI_Tiles Desktop Pro/default.aspx or

Filter Reports and Pages

Create a filtered version of a report

PowerBiTiles allows you to filter the report or the page and embed an image with those filters in place. After this, the update will also consider these filters when updating the visual.

It’s very easy to create a filtered version.

1. Expand the Filters Pane while viewing the report.

2. Set/Select the filter criteria that you desire

3. PowerBITiles will detect the changes and will set a filter icon on the node.

o If you set a report filter, that criteria will be applied to all pages, and consequently the filter icon will be placed at the report node level.

o If you set a page filter, that criteria will only be applied to the selected page.

3 – Filter ICON 2 – Filter Criteria

Important notes:

· The filters will only be used in the context of each session.

· Each time you close the PowerBI Visuals Selection Form the filters will reset.

· The selected filters will be persisted with the shape, in the slides and will also be used when refreshing the shape.

Miscellaneous

Technical Support

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We have a team of experienced, creative technology experts ready to help answer questions, share best practices and offer concrete solutions to your business challenges.

As a member of our Customer Success Network you’ll have access to our support team, resources, documentation and other Network members.

Support Channels

Contact our Support Team if you experience any problem or doubt, by using:

· Email - Send an email to support@devscope.net detailing your problem as much as you can and with at least the following information.

o Your full name and company name (if applicable)

o If you purchased more than one license and/or subscription, or are using a trial version, please provide the existing order/license IDs of you or any other users who need access to the DevScope support.

· Phone - Call us using +351 22 375 13 50

Support Availability

Our support services are available from 9h30 GMT0 to 17h30 GMT0 during weekdays.

Depending on your support contract, please expect a reply from DevScope within 24/48 hours after submitting your problem.

Ordering Information

Completing Your Order

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Licenses

For each license that you order, you are entitled to a license key that will uniquely identify your license. Upon completion of your purchase, you will receive an email with confirmation of your order. Then, within 48 hours of your purchase, you will receive another email containing your license key information, download access, and product support information (if applicable). If you have any questions in the interim, please contact us and we’ll be happy to follow up with you.

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End User License

License Agreement for PowerBI Tiles Desktop Pro for PowerPoint Add-In
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