Report Basics

Accessing Power Framework Reports

This article discusses reports published to you via the Power Framework report app, which is a collection of reports for you to consume. To find this app, navigate to your Power BI home page in Office 365.

On the power BI home page, click on Apps and then on the Power Framework app shown in the list of apps. If it is not showing, then please contact your IT Support and ask them to share the app.

Navigation Menu

The Power Framework Reporting app shows a menu bar on the left, with report groupings that you can expand or collapse using the up/down arrows. To view a report, click on the report listed within the group. Standard reports are explained in Power Framework Reports.  Use this button to hide the sidebar altogether, in order to maximise the report view.

Parts of a Report

These are the key components of a report:

Report refresh

By default, reports in Power BI will not reflect the current data in the system, rather they will be refreshed periodically (typically five times a day, please contact your IT Support to find out the specific refresh schedule implemented for your organisation).

This is to ensure fast report performance. Reports will refresh in the background and ‘cache’ the data, so that when you display a report the rendering of the report page is quick.

Most Power Framework reports will prominently display the timestamp of the last refresh in the top left, so you can understand how ‘fresh’ the data is in the report.