Power BI apps

A Power BI app is a published collection of content from a workspace. An app can include all or a subset of the dashboards, scorecards, reports, and Excel workbooks within a single workspace.

There is currently a one-to-one relationship between apps and workspaces such that each workspace can only have a single associated app, and an app’s content can only come from a single workspace. This limitation has caused organizations to create and manage more workspaces than they would like in order to isolate app content to different groups. Given the customer feedback for this issue, a new feature is planned for later in 2022 that will allow a single workspace to support multiple app versions for different consumer groups.

Just as workspaces are intended for the creation and management of Power BI content, apps are intended for the distribution of that content to groups of users. Once granted permission to an app, users can view the contents of the app within...