Earlier this year, we announced Copilot preview for all customers with Premium/Fabric capacity in Power BI web. We’re thrilled to share that the same Copilot experience for report creation is now available for preview in Power BI Desktop.
Get started with Copilot
To get started using Copilot, you need to write access to at least a single workspace that is assigned to a copilot enabled capacity i.e. paid Fabric capacity (F64 or higher) or Power BI Premium capacity (P1 or higher).
Select the Copilot icon in the ribbon to open the Copilot pane in the report view.
- The first time you select the Copilot ribbon button, a dialog will prompt you to pick a Copilot compatible workspace. Select any workspace assigned to the required capacity.
- Once you land on the Copilot pane, you‘ll see a welcome card. Select “Get started” to start your interaction with the Copilot.
- Once you’ve successfully completed the above steps, you won’t be asked to repeat these steps again.
Copilot for Desktop capabilities overview
With our current preview, users can create reports faster and easier in the Power BI Desktop experience. You can use Copilot to:
- Summarize a Power BI semantic model – Copilot will help you easily obtain a summary of the data in your Power BI semantic model. This summary can help you gain a better understanding of data in your model, identify important insights, and improve your data exploration experience. Ultimately, this can help you build more meaningful reports.
- Suggest content for a report – Copilot can help you get started on a new report by suggesting topics based on your data. By selecting this option directly in the chat, Copilot will evaluate the data and provide a report outline with suggested pages that you can explore and choose to create for you.
If you select Create next to the first page, Copilot will create that page for you.
- Create a report page – Copilot for Power BI can assist you in creating a report page by identifying the tables, fields, measures, and charts to help you get started. By giving Copilot a high-level prompt that’s specific to your data, it can generate a customizable report page that you can modify using our existing editing experiences, saving you time and effort getting started. Here are some examples of high-level prompts to get you started:
- Create a page to evaluate the performance of different shifts based on good count, reject count, and alarm count over time.
- Create a page to analyze the efficiency of the production line and overall equipment effectiveness.
- Create a page to compare the cost and material of each product and their impact on production.
How to enable Copilot for your organization
Before your business can start using Copilot capabilities in Microsoft Fabric:
Considerations
- You need to sign-in to start using Copilot pane in Power BI Desktop report view.
- If you are a first-time user of Copilot in Desktop report view, you will be asked to pick a Copilot compatible workspace once you click on Copilot button on the ribbon.
- The workspace you select here doesn’t need to be the same as the workspace where you’ll publish your report.
- If you cancel or close the workspace picker dialog without any selection, you will see the following error message.
- Unlike Data pane or Visualization pane, you cannot resize the Copilot pane.
- Fabric Copilot experiences in Power BI are preview experiences.
- Copilot responses are generated with AI and can make mistakes, always check your work.
- Updates are continually being made. Stay informed by regularly checking our monthly Power BI feature summary blogs for the latest enhancements.
More information
Read more about Copilot in Power BI in our documentation.
Also, if you have feedback, please share it in our feedback forum.
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