Two things are new in the Power BI widget: collections, and a mixed view. Both shorten the way to the number someone came for.
Collections group your reports. Sales, Revenue, Customer Experience, People and HR: instead of scrolling a list of forty reports, people see a handful of names they recognize and go straight to the right one. Every collection carries a live visual from one of the reports behind it, so the overview already answers part of the question.
The mixed view goes a step further and puts your headline visuals on screen right away, with the full reports listed beside them. The numbers people check every morning are simply there, without opening anything.
Collections group what belongs together
A collection holds the reports that belong to the same job. Executive Overview is one. Sales is another. Inside a collection you add groups, and inside a group the individual content: a full report, or a single visual taken from one. Three levels, so a reporting landscape of sixty items becomes a short list of the things someone actually opens.
Nothing moves in Power BI. You are organizing how the widget presents your reports. Your workspaces, your permissions and your refresh schedules stay exactly as they are.
The mixed view puts your headline numbers up front
Some reporting deserves both. The mixed view gives you a tab per collection along the top, the visuals of one group rendered live underneath, and the full reports beside them as a list.
A few numbers that always matter, and everything else within reach, in the same widget.
Build your own view, and reset it whenever you like
Where it is allowed, people shape the widget themselves. Everything they can reach in Power BI sits in a panel on the right, ready to be added, moved into a collection, or grouped the way they think about their work. The team with four reports nobody else opens can finally give those four a home.
Reset puts the original version back in one click, so trying something out costs nothing.
What the administrator sets up
An administrator builds the structure everyone starts with and picks the layout the widget opens in. From there it is a question of how much room to give: whether users can change the layout, add their own Power BI content, manage groups and manage collections.
Each one is a switch you set per widget variant, so the reporting widget on a leadership board can sit tighter than the one a team builds for itself.
A card that shows the report, not a picture of it
Every collection gets a card visual, and you pick it from your own Power BI content. The revenue trend, the NPS line, the bookings per channel: the card carries the real visual, kept up to date like everything else in the report. Add an icon and a description and the overview already reads like a dashboard, before anyone has clicked anything.
Title, description and notes are entered per language, on a tab for each content language you configured for your tenant. Notes are the quiet one. “Figures are final after the fifth working day” belongs on the whole month-end collection, not repeated on each of the seven reports inside it.
Send a collection to the people it is for
A collection can be limited to a group, so it appears for the people it concerns. And it can be pushed to people: name a group and the collection lands in their widget, ready to use.
Both fields are people pickers, which means a Bloom Group works here as well. Define the audience once, reuse it for the reporting that belongs to it.
Ready when you are
Both are live in the Power BI widget. Collections, groups and content are created in the widget configuration, and the mixed view is a layout setting right beside them.
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