{"id":31131,"date":"2025-10-28T00:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/introducing-power-bi-controller-preview\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T00:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:12:18","slug":"introducing-power-bi-controller-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/introducing-power-bi-controller-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Power BI Controller (Preview)"},"content":{"rendered":"[ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>The development of this feature was driven by feedback from our user community, with the goal of providing a streamlined tool for managing multiple Power BI add-ins within PowerPoint presentations.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h2>\n<p>Power BI Storytelling allows users to embed interactive reports and visuals into PowerPoint, facilitating data-driven presentations across organizations. As its adoption has grown, many users have expressed the need for a centralized mechanism to manage and update multiple Power BI add-ins across several slides. Users have reported using the Power BI add-in for PowerPoint to create data-centric presentations that require weekly or monthly updates, and have found it time-consuming to manually update each add-in. The Power BI Controller addresses this need by enabling users to perform bulk operations from a single interface.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An Example Scenario<\/h2>\n<p>Consider a business leader preparing a monthly review presentation that includes multiple embedded Power BI reports covering sales, operations, and finance. This user creates a new version of the presentation every month, capturing the latest data as an image, and then shares it with relevant stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>Capabilities with Power BI Controller:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Switch all add-ins from their current image view to live view with a single action, ensuring every report displays the most current data.<\/li>\n<li>After updating, revert all add-ins to image view, locking the data for secure sharing.<\/li>\n<li>Distribute the finalized presentation to stakeholders, confident that all information is accurate and up to date, without the need for repetitive manual updates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introducing the Power BI Controller Add-in<\/h2>\n<p>The Power BI Controller is a task pane add-in that serves as a central command center for all Power BI add-ins within a presentation. With this tool, users can efficiently perform operations across all add-ins, ensuring consistency and saving valuable time.<\/p>\n<p>To access this add-in, go to the &#8216;Add-ins&#8217; section in the PowerPoint ribbon and search for &#8216;Microsoft Power BI Controller&#8217;. Select &#8216;Add&#8217; to add the add-in to your ribbon. Once selected, a new panel will open with the commands supported by the Power BI Controller in this preview release (change view modes from snapshot\/public snapshot to live and vice versa, and sync with Power BI). More commands will be added soon.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/powerbiblogsfd-ep-aveghkfaexa3e4bx.b02.azurefd.net\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/controller_blog-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31393\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>When applying a command to the entire presentation, only the add-ins that can honor the command will execute it. Other add-ins may reject it and report back to the controller as not applicable. For example, if you send a &#8216;Switch to snapshot&#8217; command and there are add-ins in the presentation that are already in snapshot mode, they will not re-take the snapshot but will report to the controller that this command is not applicable for them. Other add-ins, which are in live mode, will respect the command and switch to snapshot mode.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/powerbiblogsfd-ep-aveghkfaexa3e4bx.b02.azurefd.net\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/status-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31394\" https:=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\"\/><\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Call to Action<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>We encourage all Power BI Storytelling users to utilize the Power BI Controller in their next presentation. <\/p>\n<p>Your feedback is invaluable and will help us continue to enhance this feature. Please share your experiences and suggestions and keep voting on <a href=\"https:\/\/ideas.powerbi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ideas<\/a> to help us determine what to build next.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n[ad_2]\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/powerbi.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/introducing-power-bi-controller-streamlining-storytelling-with-bulk-operations-preview\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The development of this feature was driven by feedback from our user community, with the goal of providing a streamlined tool for managing multiple Power BI add-ins within PowerPoint&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":23165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/06\/social-default-image.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}