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To make good decisions about the future of your business, you and your team need to be informed. There are a lot of solutions out there to help you visualize your intelligence through reports, graphs, and charts - but one of the most powerful and popular is Microsoft Power BI.

It’s easy to use, and you can generate comprehensive reports with up-to-the-minute analytics about your business — empowering the key players in your team to make informed choices about the future of your organization.

The app allows you to sign in directly with your Power BI account, and then choose a report or dashboard to display. You can choose the way the Report or Dashboard displays, and even decide whether to animate it scrolling so that you can fit more data onto your digital signage — Super handy stuff!

This is a little different from displaying your Power BI Dashboards and Reports via the TV Dashboards feature, which is really helpful in getting dashboards to display on your signage but doesn’t integrate directly with Power BI the way this app does.

There are two ways to add content with Fugo - via our playlist builder and in our Design Studio. We’ll cover the steps for both methods in each section.

1. Log into your Fugo Account. If you don’t have an account yet, you can start your 14-day free trial here.

2. Click Apps in the top navigation bar to get to our app store.

3. Locate the Power BI app (you can search for it to move things along) and click Try App.

4. A window will pop up where you'll be prompted to either create a new playlist for the app or add the app to an existing playlist.

Choose how you'd like to proceed and & click Continue.

5. Now you're ready to configure the app.

Click authorize in to sign in to your Power BI account. A popup window will open asking you to sign in once you click this.

6. After entering your account details and signing in, the app will fetch your Reports and Dashboards, ready to display them on your digital signage.

Using the drop downs, select the specific dashboard or report that you want to display.

7. If you have a particularly long dashboard and you want to designate a certain portion of it to display on screen, you can use the SCROLLING feature to set the pixel dimensions of the part of the dashboard Fugo displays.

You may need to set the height (in pixels) by trial & error.

Check out the video below for a helpful explainer 👇

8. If you want Fugo to use our screenshotting method to capture & display your dashboard, toggle the setting for SCREENSHOT on.

9. If you've enabled the screenshot method for your dashboard, you can use the PAUSE function to tell Fugo how long to wait before taking the screenshot of your dashboard. This will give any complex or slow-loading dashboards time to fully load before taking the screenshot.

Input the time - in seconds - that you want Fugo to pause before taking the screenshot.

10. Set the duration of the app - that is, how long the app displays within a slideshow of other content - in the DURATION (SECONDS) field.

Click Save Changes when you're done.

11. Your Power BI app instance will now be listed as a slide in your playlist.

If you want to display one or several more dashboard/reports, you'll need to create a new instance of the app for each dashboard by clicking Add More Content and configuring more instances of the app.

To continue on to publishing instructions from here, you can skip to section 3: How to publish the app to your screen/s.

1. Click Studio in the top navigation bar. Then click Create in Studio to start a new design.

2. This will open up a blank canvas for you to start adding content to! To add the Fugo app, either scroll to find it in the Apps menu to the right or search for it to find it faster.

3. Click the app or drag and drop to add it onto your canvas.

4. Customizing the Power BI app settings works the same way in the Design Studio - all settings will be found in the panel to the left. To bring up the panel, click on the app from the canvas.

You can continue to customize your content however you wish in the studio! Some ideas to customize this might be:

In my example, I've customized my slide to display to fit my dashboard into a rounded frame with a drop shadow. I've also added the local time and date, along with a Google News ticker on the bottom.

When you’re satisfied with how your content looks, click Save and Close. This will close out the design studio. To publish this content, you’ll need to add it to a playlist, which we’ll cover in the next section.

1. Give your playlist a name (we suggest making it something relevant to distinguish it from other playlists later on down the road.) I'll call mine "Customer Profitability Tracker."

2. Click Select Screens to choose where to publish your playlist. You can publish this playlist to one, or multiple screens.

3. If you used the playlist builder to configure the app, you'll already see it listed under the Content for your playlist.

If you used the Studio to configure the app, you'll need to click Select Content and select it from the Studio Content tab in content picker.

3. You can also add more content to your playlist by clicking Add More Content and choosing other apps, uploading media, or from the content that you created in the studio.

If you're going to add more pages of a report or dashboard, you will do so by adding more content and configuring an instance of the app for each page.

4. When you've selected all the content items you want to add to this playlist, you're ready to put it on screen or schedule it!

Click Preview it to see what it will look like on screen.

To publish it to screen right away, click Publish. This is will send it to your screen/s right away & play it indefinitely until you unpublish it.

To save it & come back to later, click Finish later.

To get specific about what dates, days, and times this playlist runs, you can use the Schedule. Learn more about scheduling capabilities in our playlists collection.

If the app is not working for you (i.e. you are seeing an internal server error) one thing you can do to try to help is to grant admin consent for fugo.ai in your Azure portal.

See how 👇

For more detailed info, check out Microsoft's article on permissions needing admin consent.

We’ve worked really hard to get this feature up and running, and we’d love to hear what you think about it! You can email us at support@fugo.ai to let us know, or if you have any questions or are having trouble getting the Power BI Dashboards app working with your signage just drop us an email and we’ll help you get things set up.

To get started and integrate your Power BI Dashboards with Fugo, you can sign up for a 14 day free trial here.