Power BI Side Bar - Snack 3

Today's snack is brought to you by the Side Bar (boxed in a red rectangle in the screenshot).  No, it is not cocktail hour.  I am talking about the navigation options available to you in the ever-present left side bar.  Let's take a look.

Home - This goes without saying, "There's no place like home."  The button will always take you back to the main Power BI screen.

Create - Go here to begin your journey in creating a new report, semantic model aka data model, and other options available with your current subscription.

Browse - This is where you can look at all of reports you have created, your favorite reports from others, and all of the other reports that have been shared with you.

OneLake - View and manage all of your data models, access to your data, as well as its integration with other semantic models

Apps - All of the apps that have been installed for you, that you have access to, or that you have created.

Metrics - A superfabulous feature enabling you to build, manage and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) that you define.  This is better than the spreadsheet you are using because you can connect it directly to your reports in Power BI and the data comes in automagically.   I did already do a little demo on this last fall, if you want to jump in now.

Monitor - Mostly for us Admins, so we can keep track of data refreshes, performance, and other key metrics related to reports and datasets.

Learn - You can actually go wandering off on your own and learn all about everything Power BI in a more Microsoft-structured format.

Real-Time - Used to manage and visualize real-time data streams through APIs and other Fabric integrated data sources.

Workloads - This is for managing and configuration of various workloads such as AI, Dataflows, and Paginated Reports within the Power BI Premium licensing capacity.

Workspaces - These are the workspace options available to you, where reports live that you have created or that have been created with you. "My Workspace" will always appear here.  It is yours and only accessible to you, unless you share something from there to someone else.  They will still only have access to what you have shared with them though.

More aka ". . ." - More options are available through here, such as Deployment Piplelines and the Functions Hub.  These options are really only available with a higher-level Premium subscription

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Below these tiles, items that you open will appear for you to quickly access again, if you should jump over to another report, and want to quickly jump back to the one you were just in.

At the very bottom, is the Power BI logo. Clicking that offers access to a relatively new view, which is only relevant to those with a Fabric subscription, or Premium users.  We are still just Pro here, so you can pretty much disregard this button.