Hi, I'm trying to get a click-through working on a dashboard tile.
This is a Power BI Embedded, App-owns-data, scenario, where I'm embedding Power BI visuals (Dashboards and Reports) in a bespoke SharePoint 2013 on-premise site, where external users log in and get access to selected dashboards showing trends etc. on the data in the application.
After a few starts I got the embedding working. (Reason for the initial problems: in the type of SP2013 custom webparts this application is using, it's not possible to use the MS Power BI .NET API (as that's all based on Async/Await patterns which aren't really supported in SharePoint 2013 "classic" webparts, so in the end I'm directly talking to the Power BI REST API, which works fine).
Next thing on the wish-list is to be able to click through the various tiles on a Dashboard, and then replace the embedded Dashboard with the corresponding Report.
I've set up the event handling as described here, (as pointed at by
I have the event.detail.reportEmbedUrl from the tileClicked event. Do I now have to create a new config JSON for the embedded report, with a fresh accessToken for that report (as the token for the embedded Dashboard is for that Dashboard), and then call powerbi.embed(container, config) again for the clicked-through embedded report, or is there a simpler way to get this scenario to work?
My biggest problem is that I cannot easily generate a new accessToken for the report, without going back to the backend (my SharePoint 2013 application), and, unlike "modern" MVC application, it's also not trivial to implement something like a web service (in whichever form) on the platform to call from the page and generate a new accessToken.
Is there anyone who has experience with a similar scenario and is able to help me get this to work?