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Guide to embed Power BI reports, dashboards in WordPress. Integrate Microsoft Power BI with WordPress using miniOrange Embed Power BI WordPress plugin. This setup guide will demonstrate the steps on how to embed PowerBI reports, dashboards, tiles, datasets / semantic model in WordPress pages and posts so users can view the interactive Power BI artifacts from the WordPress site itself. You can also enable row level security (RLS) for a granular view of the Power BI charts in WP.

Pre-requisites : Download And Installation

To configure Embed Microsoft Power BI reports on your site you would need following pre-requisites:

• You will need Azure AD Global Administrator Access.
• Our Embed Power BI reports plugin.

Steps to configure Azure AD for WP PowerBI Integration

1. Configure the Azure AD App registration

• Log in to Azure AD Portal as admin
• You will be represented with the home screen of Azure Active Directory.
• Under the Azure Services section, select Microsoft Entra ID.


• In the left tab, under the Manage section, select App registrations.


• Click on New registration.


• Assign the Display Name in the name field and choose the account type.
• In the Redirect URI field, provide the URL of your WordPress site and click on the Register button.

• After the registration of an application, Azure AD assigns an unique application ID to your application.
• Navigate to the Overview tab, in the left pane.
• Copy the Application ID and the Directory ID, this will be your Client ID and Tenant ID.

• From the left navigation pane, navigate to the Certificates & secrets tab.
• Click on New client secret. Enter the description and expiration time and click on the ADD option.

• Copy the value of Secret Key. This will be your Client Secret Key.

 Add API Permissions to your Azure AD Application:

• Go to API Permissions from the left navigation pane and click on Add a permission option.

• Select Microsoft Graph under the Microsoft APIs tab.

• Select Application Permissions and search for the User.

• Under User select User.Read.All permission and click on the Add Permissions button.(Microsoft Graph)

• Again, click on the Add a permission option.

• Now select Power BI Service.

• Select the Delegated Permissions option and search for your Report.

• Under Report, select Report.Read.All permission and click on the Add Permissions button.

• Now click on Grant admin consent for Default Directory.

• In the popup that opens, click on Yes.

• You can refer to the below image to verify if all the permissions that you have configured are correct and the same as the given image.

• Now in the Azure AD Portal, navigate to Home > Users tab, then select a specific user from the list.
• In the user details, you'll find two fields - User principal name and Object ID as shown in the screenshot below keep it handy for testing the plugin. You can also use your own office365 email in the UPN field.

• Now you have successfully configured the Azure AD application.

2. Configure the Azure AD Security Group Settings

• In the Azure Active Directory Home page, navigate to the Groups from the left pane.

• Click on New Group to add a new security group.

• Select the Group type as Security from the dropdown and enter the Group Name as Allow Power BI Admin APIs.
• Once you have entered the details click on the Create button to create a new security group.

• Search and select newly created security groups (Allow Power BI Admin APIs).

• Navigate to the Members tab from the left pane and click on Add Members.
• Now search for the application name you have previously configured and click on the Select button.

You have successfully configured Azure AD app to achieve User Sync and Power BI Integration into your WordPress Site.

3. Configure the Power BI Dashboard

• Go to the Power BI dashboard and login as an administrator.
• You will be represented with the home screen of the Power BI.
• On the top right corner, click on settings icon as shown below.

• Under the Settings pane as displayed, click on the Admin portal option.

• In the Admin Portal section, under the Tenant settings, scroll down to the Developer settings.
• Click on Allow service principals to use Power BI APIs.

• Enable the toggle, select the option Apply to the entire organization and then proceed by clicking on Apply.

• Scroll down to the Admin API settings, enable the toggle and then choose the option of Specific security groups.
• Search for Allow PowerBI Admin APIs then click on Apply.

• Navigate back to the Home page. Select the Workspaces tab from the left pane and then select your workspace from the list.

• Navigate to the Manage Access option in the navbar as shown in the screenshot below.

• When you click on Manage Access, you will be presented with a screen showing the current users and security groups having access to the workspace.
• You can then click on Add people or groups so as to provide access.

• After that, you will need to select Admin from the dropdown and add the user according to your requirements.

• After you have completed configuring the access for the workspace, select the report that you want to embed in WordPress page or post.
• Then copy the Workspace_ID and Report_ID from the URL as shown in the below image and keep it handy as you will need it further.

4. Configure and View Power BI Content using SSO

• Navigate to the Embed Power BI Reports plugin.
• Under the Manage Application tab, provide the below information.


Application ID	Paste the Application ID from Azure AD App.
Client Secrets	Paste the Client Secret from the Azure AD App.
Redirect URI	Enter the URL of your WordPress site.
Tenant ID	Paste the Directory ID from Azure AD App.

• Now perform Test Connection to check if the connection is established by passing UserPrincipleName value, enter the UserPrincipalName or Object ID of the user in the Test UPN/ID field, then click on Save and check the connection.
• On successful configuration you will be to able to view the attributes recieved from Azure AD for the user.
• Now you can enable Azure AD SSO into WordPress so that the users in your organization can view the Power BI content.
• To activate SSO on your WordPress site you need to enable the toggle Add a Single Sign-On button on the WordPress login page.

5. Embed your Power BI report into the WordPress

• Navigate to the Embed Power BI tab in the plugin.
• Under the option Select resource type to Embed select the appropriate resource type from the dropdown.
• Additionally enter the Workspace ID, Report ID, Height and Width as per your requirements and click on the Generate Shortcode button.

• Now after successful generation of shortcode, you can access the shortcodes in the ShortCodes Generated tab as shown in the below image.
• Copy the shortcode using the copy button provided with the shortcode.


Note : You can generate multiple shortcodes in order to embed on your WordPress site.

• In order to embed the shortcode you can Add a new page or Edit the existing page as shown in the below image.

• Once the page editor is open then click on + symbol and then search for the Shortcode option.

• Now paste the Shortcode that you copied previously and click on the Publish / Update button.

• To view the reports on your WordPress, you would need to initiate SSO from the Azure AD end.

• Also, if a user is not logged in via Azure AD SSO, the user will see a notice to login via SSO in the embed container as shown below.

With this, you have successfully connected Power BI with WordPress allowing you to embed interactive PowerBI reports, charts, and dashboards in WordPress. With additional support for row level security, you can enable a granular view of your Power BI visualizations in your WordPress site.

6. Additional configurations for your Embedded Resources

• Navigate to the Settings tab of the plugin in order to configure additional settings for the embedded resources.

• Filter Pane : This feature enables or disables the display of filter pane on the embedded resource.
• Page Navigation : This feature enables or disables the display of the page navigation bar below the embedded content.
• Language : If you wish to view the embedded content in any specific language then you may configure it from this option.
• Format Locale : By this feature, you may change the locale format for embedded resources.
• Mobile Breakpoint : This is the value which will be considered for embedding reports in mobile layout. Any width less than the entered amount will trigger the Mobile Report Embed functionality.
• Mobile Height : This is the height for the mobile layout when width is less than the value entered in Mobile Breakpoint.
• Mobile Width : This is the width for the mobile layout when width is less than the value entered in Mobile Breakpoint.
• You may configure any of the settings above as per your requirements.

Now you have successfully embedded your Power BI report into the WordPress page and provided access to the Power BI report via Azure AD SSO.

Additional Resources

• WordPress Power BI Integration
• WordPress Power BI Single Sign-On (SSO)
• How to configure Row Level Security (RLS)?
• How to view Power BI reports in mobile view?
• WordPress Office 365 App Integrations
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)