A Power BI estate has the same problem as a document estate: too many reports, no way to tell which is authoritative, and three dashboards that answer the same question differently. The hardest part is not reading a chart — it is finding out that the chart exists, and what its measure actually counts. The Power BI connector is part of askFinz Knowledge, which is still rolling out; here is what it will do, and what it will not.
Find the report that answers a question
Describe what you want to know and get the dashboard or report that covers it, named and linked, instead of scrolling a workspace list.
Read what a measure means, not just its name
Report and measure descriptions are where "net revenue" is defined. Searching those makes the difference between two similar-looking numbers explainable.
Tell the authoritative report from the copy
Owner, workspace and last refresh stay structured, so "the finance-owned one, refreshed this week" narrows properly. It is also the fastest way to find the three near-duplicate dashboards that should have been one, before someone builds a fourth.
What is read, and what is never rebuilt
What crosses, and what stays in Power BI
Read
names and descriptions of dashboards, reports, datasets and measures in the workspaces you select.
Written back
nonenothing. No reports, datasets or refreshes are changed or triggered.
Stored
a searchable copy of that text, plus a link back to the report.
Never read
workspaces you did not select, and row-level data behind a report.
What you will be granting
Read-only access to the workspaces an administrator chooses, honouring the workspace roles Power BI already enforces.
Setting it up
Planned — not available yetWhat connecting it will look like once the connector arrives.
- 01
An administrator authorises the askFinz app for the tenant.
- 02
Choose the workspaces to include.
- 03
Set the refresh interval for re-reading names and descriptions.
Limits, honestly
- Metadata, not measurements. What becomes searchable is what the report is and what it means — not the figures inside it.
- One-way and read-only. No refresh is ever triggered on your behalf.
- Row-level security is respected by not reading the data at all.
- Paginated reports and dataflows are out of scope for now.
- A report with no description contributes little; the connector cannot invent one.