So far in this series, I wrote:

This article explains how to publish a BI Report from a local something to a BI server and how to open that report live.

Getting Started

Start Power BI Desktop and click on the Open Other Reports or select a recent report from the list in the left side bar as you can see in Figure 1.

Figure 1

I have opened my report that displays SQL data.


Figure 2

Now click on the Publish toolbar on top of Power BI.

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Figure 3

You need Power BI login details and for that Sign in.


Figure 4

Enter the login credentials and click the Sign in button.


Figure 5

Here you go. Your report is published to Power BI


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If you want to view your report, click on the link as in the screenshot in Figure 7.


Figure 7

As you can see, the URL is your published report.

Summary

In this article we saw how to publish a Power BI Report to Power BI.